Various fruit trees at tesco for 7 quid

mumsrgreat

Tesco are doing a variety of fruit trees (cherry, plum, different types of apple/pear) for 7 pounds. They are about 5 or 6 foot tall. I got a dessert pear tree and a golden delicious apple tree. They had them at the front of our store (Wigan), and were also selling different fruit bushes (rasberries etc - I think were around 2.50, but I didnt check those)

meli89

I also saw some fruit trees in wilkinsons's for £5

teaspoon1

meli89 wrote: »

I also saw some fruit trees in wilkinsons's for £5

Wilkinsons's? Since when did a plural look like that?

(sorry for the pedantry)

cande

mumsrgreat wrote: »

Tesco are doing a variety of fruit trees (cherry, plum, different types of apple/pear) for 7 pounds. They are about 5 or 6 foot tall. I got a dessert pear tree and a golden delicious apple tree. They had them at the front of our store (Wigan), and were also selling different fruit bushes (rasberries etc - I think were around 2.50, but I didnt check those)

I saw these trees about a week ago, and ummed and arrghed about getting a cherry one, saw that Homebase were selling cherry trees for £9.99, so decided to get one from Tesco, picked a sunburst cherry and it scanned at £3.50

Then a couple of days after that, saw the small fruit bushes for £2.50, so picked up a blackberry, then went on Friday and saw that they had reduced a lot of the fruit bushes (including the blackberry - typical!) to 55p, so I picked up a raspberry one - result!:D

jacmboys

I got a cherry and an apple tree and they scanned at 3.50 each too. was quite chuffed as bought them just as we were leaving the Blackpool store.

sb44

Does anyone know what type of cherry trees they are please, ie are they self
pollinating or do you need to buy two?

Ta.

cande

sb44 wrote: »

Does anyone know what type of cherry trees they are please, ie are they self
pollinating or do you need to buy two?

Ta.

The one I bought, the Sunburst Cherry was self fertile, which is very handy!:D

hellokitty08

Ohh that sounds good, would i be looking in the summer section, the flower section or somewhere more random?

sassyblue

cande wrote: »

I saw these trees about a week ago, and ummed and arrghed about getting a cherry one, saw that Homebase were selling cherry trees for £9.99, so decided to get one from Tesco, picked a sunburst cherry and it scanned at £3.50

Then a couple of days after that, saw the small fruit bushes for £2.50, so picked up a blackberry, then went on Friday and saw that they had reduced a lot of the fruit bushes (including the blackberry - typical!) to 55p, so I picked up a raspberry one - result!:D

Funnily enough a similar thing happened to me with a dwarf weeping tree from Tescos not so long ago, scanned at half its labelled price. Will look out for 'gliches' on the plant stuff in future

sb44

cande wrote: »

The one I bought, the Sunburst Cherry was self fertile, which is very handy!:D

Thanks very much.

I did take a look today and the ones left were Stella which is also self fertile but not sure if they were reduces, may well have to pay them a visit tomorrow.

cande

hellokitty08 wrote: »

Ohh that sounds good, would i be looking in the summer section, the flower section or somewhere more random?

When I got my cherry tree, it was on the end of the fruit and veg section, then after I bought one, I saw them outside the main door and also on the end of the bunches of flowers.
The raspberry and blackberry bushes were on a shelf in the flower section, where they have the bits like orchids and potted plants/flowers.

HTH