A little juicy fruit …. raspberries, currants white red pink & black, gooseberries red green & yellow, and blackberries, boysenberries, wineberries, cranberries and honeyberries. Well the last few, just a glance… Oh – and the Veitchberry too

Raspberry Joan J – Autumn fruiting

Rasberry Octavia Summer fruiting – very late

Black currant Noirama

Red currant Augustus

Red currants and White Currants

Raspberry Octavia – very late

Raspberry Tulameen

Raspberries

Raspberry Autumn Bliss

Blueberry Ivanhoe

Blueberries

Veitchberry

Rubus idaeus Malling Promise

Tayberry

Blackberry

Blackberry and their hybrids

Gooseberry Hinnonmaki Green

Black currant Ben orain

Raspberry Glen Clova

Redcurrant Stanza

Black currant Ben Sarek

Gooseberry Pax

Red currant Lisette

Black currant Ben Tirran

Mixed cordons

Gooseberry Invicta and Xenia (the first and second)

Red currant and White currant too

Red currant on left, white currant to right

Raspberry Malling Admiral

Raspberry Autumn Bliss

Black currant Ben Sarek

A little tour around the fruit garden at RHS Wisley, where all manner of soft fruit are left either au naturel or trained into fans and cordon, tied and regimented into wires and pruned carefully for the maximum harvest and healthiest plants.

I’ve a little reading to do but have picked out the following articles from my favourite gardening journalists at The Telegraph and Independent as well as a look at the good ol’ RHS website for more information.

I’ll also be reading through Mary Spiller’s excellent book Growing Fruit: A Complete Handbook (she has an excellent CV that includes time at Miss Havergals’ School of Horticulture at Waterperry Gardens – which continues to be a superlative garden packed with fruit trees in all manner of fantastic forms).

Alan Titchmarsh and his Kitchen Garden book will also be perused I’m sure and the excellent Dr DG Hessayon and his Expert series for The New Fruit Expert… Time flies ?

In the meantime, have a gander at the advice in these excellent articles –

LINKS –

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/grow-to-eat/how-to-grow-raspberries-and-the-best-varieties/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/9481098/A-foolproof-guide-to-growing-raspberries.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/property/gardening/how-to-grow-your-own-raspberries-10342312.html

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-your-own/fruit/raspberries?type=fhttp://

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/6122218/Red-all-over-how-to-grow-perfect-currants.html

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-your-own/fruit/redcurrants?type=fhttps://

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-your-own/fruit/blackcurrantshttp://

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardeningadvice/7833044/Gardening-week-ahead-pruning-currants-gooseberries-and-vines.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/keen-on-fruit-gooseberries-currants-2320452.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardeningadvice/7222101/Prune-currants-and-gooseberries-Vegetable-garden.html

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-your-own/fruit/blackberries?type=fhttps://

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-your-own/fruit/whitecurrants?type=fhttp://

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardeningadvice/7222101/Prune-currants-and-gooseberries-Vegetable-garden.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/7866232/How-to-grow-gooseberries.html

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-your-own/fruit/gooseberries?type=fhttp://

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/7866232/How-to-grow-gooseberries.html

…. and to finish off, a little gallery of the different plants available at the Plant Centre at Wisley – and all good fruit specialists – with a precis of what their best features might just be …