Welcome to RealEnglishFruit! We are Dan and Henry Neuteboom, we provide advice on growing all types of trees whether in a garden, orchard, roadside or forest, and we are never happier than when pruning or restructuring trees of whatever age and type. We have been growing our own fruit at our base in Suffolk for decades, and you can taste Dan’s apples by ordering our Real English Fruit Apple Selection.
Dan’s apples, postal delivery or local collection
Postal delivery
Our Real English Fruit Apple Selection is available for purchase online. This box of 2 kg of eating apples will be delivered direct to your address by Royal Mail. Price £6 + £3.99 P&P = £9.99 for one pack. The varieties in the pack are selected so that they are ready to eat and of top quality. Each pack typically contains three varieties selected from Winter Wonder, Red Pippin, Pinova, Fiesta, Wyken Pippin, Falstaff, and Red Windsor. On request, we can also supply you with a full box of the variety Winter Wonder. Just follow this link or click on the button below to order and make a secure payment online using the SumUp platform.
Buy our Quality Apple Selection with postal delivery
Local collection
If convenient for you, you can save money by collecting our Real English Fruit Apple Selection direct from our base near Eye in Suffolk. This offers an extra guarantee of quality, with no bruising. In this case the price is £6.99 for a 2 kg box of eating apples, payable exclusively in advance, online. For safety reasons, we are unable to accept cash payments. For further information on local collection, please write to us at at enquiries@realenglishfruit.co.
Garden fruit tree care update – December
This is the right time to prune apple and pear trees. Winter pruning invigorates growth, and it can be performed any time from now until the end of March. Any sizeable pruning cuts will have to be sealed with a sealing compound. Click here to watch a video on pruning a mature apple tree.
Check your trees for canker, or for waterlogged soil. Canker has to be cut out. Waterlogged soil has to be improved by means of effective drainage. Just send us an email if you need help with drainage.
Remember not to prune plums, greengages and cherries in winter.
How to control pests and diseases on fruit trees in December
Woolly aphids. Effective insecticides are no longer available to the gardener or the allotment holder. Brushing the affected branches with luke-warm water and some detergent will reduce the problem. Repeat this treatment a month later.
Leopard moths (Zeuzera pyrina) are unwanted visitors in the orchard, and in some seasons they can be present in large numbers, often dwelling in apple trees near hedges. You can recognise their presence by small holes on the branches, with accumulated wood chips and dusts outside the holes. If you have a few of these pests on your apple trees, you can eliminate them simply by inserting a wire into the tunnel made by the moth larvae. Branches with larger infestations can be pruned out.
General welfare
Make sure that rabbit guards are in place. Particularly efficient guards are necessary if muntjacs are present in your garden orchard. Check for grown-in or restricting ties around tree trunks and remove as necessary. Replace broken stakes. Remove stinging nettles and perennial weeds. Ideally there should be a 1-metre-diameter circle free from grass and weeds around each fruit tree.
This is the right time to start preparations for planting new trees.
Read more tips for fruit tree care in December here. Write to us at enquiries@realenglishfruit.co.uk if you need help and advice.
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Our tree services
Can we introduce ourselves? We’re Dan and Henry Neuteboom, based in Braiseworth, Suffolk. We’re experts in all aspects of tree care, both fruit trees – Real English Fruit – and other ornamental and landscaping trees.
We are not “tree surgeons”. We are not “chainsaw experts”.
We are tree specialists.
We grow trees, we care for trees, we love trees.
We are passionate about restoring trees in health and in shape.
We use our resources of knowledge accumulated during over half a century’s work on trees.
So if you have a problem with a tree, we can sort it out.
We are available for advice and work on all aspects of trees:
We provide advice by e-mail and with on-site work. Please write to us at enquiries@realenglishfruit.co.uk, providing a description of the problem, with a few photographs if possible. As trees are powerfully influenced by climate and other environmental factors, it would be useful to know your postcode so that we have a rough idea of your location.
We will be available for onsite work on 30 and 31 January 2026, and 2 February 2026.
Useful links
Garden orchard encyclopaedia
This website presents information on the entire spectrum of fruit trees for the garden. Click here to see the Garden Orchard Encyclopaedia index. Below are links to some of our most popular sections:
- month-by-month overview of tasks in a garden orchard
- fruit tree varieties
- how to plan a new garden orchard
- how to plant fruit trees
- how to prune fruit trees
- how to make an espalier
- how to deal with fruit tree diseases
- how to look after older trees
- thinning
- training fruit trees as espalier, fan, cordon or stepover
Video channel
The videos published on this website illustrate the critical stages of fruit development, from the period from blossom to fruit formation, in a chronological sequence throughout the year. Click here to see the videos currently available.
Watch a video tutorial about Tydemans Late Orange, a biennial-bearing apple variety.