B&M Bargains - Family Fruit Tree

Steve_xx

I got a real bargain from B&M Bargains. They were selling Family Fruit Trees off for £2 yesterday. These are pot grown trees with two varieties of the same fruit type on them. Unfortunately the labels were missing from them and so I cannot identify what they are! They were full priced at £19.99 before being reduced to £2. There is a barcode on the plant pot with the number 4 002421038064. Immediately above the barcode it reads: SHORT270809 Wk17.

I wonder if anyone purchased any of these and knows what they are? I'm inclined to think that they are probably plums.

WLM21

Maybe they are Giant Redwoods, which can reach over 100m in height ... hope you have a big garden

valk_scot

I've never seen these family trees with any fruit but apples on them. I bought a reduced 3-apple variety version in our local Woolworths ten years ago (coincidentaly it's now our local B&M) for 50p...or rather my 6 yr old son bought it with his pocket money. We've had tens of pounds of really good apples from that tree once it established. So I would think a £2 tree is going to prove well worth a try.

Steve_xx

valk_scot wrote: »

I've never seen these family trees with any fruit but apples on them. I bought a reduced 3-apple variety version in our local Woolworths ten years ago (coincidentaly it's now our local B&M) for 50p...or rather my 6 yr old son bought it with his pocket money. We've had tens of pounds of really good apples from that tree once it established. So I would think a £2 tree is going to prove well worth a try.

I've seen them with pears on before. I bought one way back in the 1980's and it had three different pear types on it. It's grown quite big but it has never fruited very well.

This one doesn't look like an apple leaf to me and so I'm thinking that it is probably a plum. Time will tell!