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 eating apples, total weight 2kg inclusive of packaging, 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, grown according to organic principles. In practical terms, this means that natural predators keep harmful insects at a sufficiently low level. Any fruit that is not top quality is left on the trees; it falls on the ground naturally, and is used by birds as a food supply during the winter months. Flocks of starlings and fieldfares arrive from Siberia, ensuring that most of this fruit has disappeared by early April. Each pack typically contains two or 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, from 9.00 a.m. to 10.00 a.m., Monday to Saturday. This offers an extra guarantee of quality, with no bruising. In this case the price is £6.99 for a 2 kg box (weight inclusive of packaging) of eating apples, payable exclusively in advance, online. For safety reasons, we are unable to accept cash payments. We will send location details on receipt of your online order. For further information on local collection, please write to us at at enquiries@realenglishfruit.co.
Buy our Quality Apple Selection with local collection
Dan’s walnuts & almonds, postal delivery or local collection
Postal delivery
Dan grows his walnuts and almonds on trees in his garden orchard. Fresh, natural, unsprayed, fantastically tasty, grown according to organic principles. You can purchase a box containing two bags, one of walnuts, one of almonds, total weight about 1 kg inclusive of packaging, delivered direct to your address by Royal Mail at the price of £6 + £3.99 P&P = £9.99. Just follow this link or click on the button below to order and make a secure payment online using the SumUp platform.
Buy our Walnuts & Almonds with postal delivery
Local collection
If convenient for you, you can save money by collecting our Real English Fruit Walnuts & Almonds direct from our base near Eye in Suffolk, from 9.00 a.m. to 10.00 a.m., Monday to Saturday. In this case the price is £6.99 for a 1 kg box containing walnuts and almonds (weight inclusive of packaging), payable exclusively in advance, online. For safety reasons, we are unable to accept cash payments. We will send location details on receipt of your online order. For further information on local collection, please write to us at at enquiries@realenglishfruit.co.
Buy our Walnuts & Almonds with local collection
Garden fruit tree care update – February
Apple, pear and mulberry trees can be winter pruned in February. Read more about how to prune an apple tree.
The Mirabelle de Nancy plum, peaches, nectarines and apricots are coming close to the pink bud stage. If the trees are outside and not under cover, they should be covered during the pink bud stage using a double layer of garden fleece, to stop the frost destroying the blossom buds/flowers. When it is a nice sunny day and the flowers have opened, don’t forget to uncover the trees for pollination to take place unhindered. Watch a video tutorial on how to protect an apricot tree from frost.
Do not carry out any form of pruning on plums, peaches, nectarines and apricots at this time of the year, as it may result in an infection of “peach leaf curl,” a fungal disease. If you had trouble with this disease last year, make sure no old leaves are still underneath the trees, as these will produce the spores which may initiate another infection. If you can stop the leaves from becoming damp or wet, that will further reduce the chances of infection. If you have problems with peach leaf,the best solution is to grow your peaches in a polytunnel. That way, no chemicals are necessary. Watch a video tutorial on how to protect against peach leaf curl.
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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.
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.