Gardening express fruit trees- which one is which?

Smurggle

Rather cleverly I ordered 5 fruit trees from Gardeningexpress.co.uk using a Groupon voucher not long ago. They arrived and are colour coded as to which tree is which, I have cleverly lost the key and now don't know which tree is which.

I don't suppose there is anybody out there that has this key? I know they sold thousands of these on this offer so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that somebody knows!

I know I could contact the website but I am donating some of these trees to a friend and the only time I can get them to him is tomorrow and I don't want to guess!

Thanks for any help

Buggins

Ok mine arrived today so colour code as follows -

Red = Gala apple
White =Golden delicious apple
Green = Plum Stanley
Orange = pear
Pink= Stella compact cherry

Hope this helps

Smurggle

Thank you SO much! You're a lifesaver

mansars

I had the same problem last year with their colour coding, no one at GE replied rto my email asking for answers.

So far 4 out of 5 have grown, albeit slowly.....one died after being ravaged by the neighbours dog

ModelCitizen

Does anyone have any idea how big these trees will get or, ideally which rootstock they are grafted on to? Although the literature says plant them 8 feet apart I can't find anywhere where it says what height they will get to.
Thanks.

ModelCitizen

I think I'll stick to buying Fruit Trees form Adams Apples in future. All the ones I bought from him have grown very well (and only cost £11 each) whereas only the apple trees from the Groupon Gardening Express offer have any life. The Cherry Stella came quite damaged and has only sprouted from the rootstock and the Plumb has done nothing at all. Shame as these were the two I wanted most. As per usual no reply to any queries from Gardening Express. In my opinion this company are to be avoided.

Davesnave

ModelCitizen wrote: »

I think I'll stick to buying Fruit Trees form Adams Apples in future. All the ones I bought from him have grown very well (and only cost £11 each) whereas only the apple trees from the Groupon Gardening Express offer have any life. The Cherry Stella came quite damaged and has only sprouted from the rootstock and the Plumb has done nothing at all. Shame as these were the two I wanted most. As per usual no reply to any queries from Gardening Express. In my opinion this company are to be avoided.

If you'd run a search on this Forum first.....

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1377469

It's what this place is here for!

ModelCitizen

Even if I had found that small thread it's hardly conclusive! Anyhow the original offer was through Groupon and did not explicitly mention Gardening Express (maybe for good reason!).

But thanks for your helpful post anyway.