A nursery that sells good, mature fruit trees in Co Dublin?
|
Author |
Message |
Heather Rank attained: Hazel Tree

Joined: 21 Apr 2009 Posts: 6 Location: North Co Dublin
|
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:35 pm Post subject: A nursery that sells good, mature fruit trees in Co Dublin? |
|
|
Hello everybody!
Just wondering whether any of you could recommend a nursery that sells good, mature fruit trees in Co Dublin.
Also, I'm Italian and would like some advice on regard which trees are most productive in this most unique climate of yours.
Thanks for your help.
Edited by moderator to add descriptive title.
Original title too generic....... (Fruit Trees)
see rule 11
Members should try to use an appropriate, descriptive title when posting a new topic.
This helps others find your topic, allowing you to receive replies. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
DoubleDigger Rank attained: Hazel Tree


Joined: 23 Apr 2009 Posts: 2
|
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:25 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Hi Heather
Check out www.tullynurseries.ie They used to be trade only but now open to the public. It's just beyond Swords heading for Skerries. They have a very large plant selection in general. We got some nice Pears,& Plums from them. I live in swords and generally speaking the Pear and Plum trees do well on the heavy clay that we have in our garden. You need a sunny spot though so south or west facing wall would be required I think.
Also in the same area is Jones Fruit Farm & Garden Centre on the Swords Road, Donnabate very good too.
Judging by the Pear blossom it's going to be a bumper crop this year.  |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
walltoall Rank attained: Orchard owner

Joined: 25 Aug 2008 Posts: 706 Location: Thurrock RM15 via Dungarvan and the Banner County
|
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:41 pm Post subject: seeing as how you are almost out as far as Blake's cross. |
|
|
Ciao Heather, what is it you would like to grow? Marian Nurseries: Garden Centre, Newhaggard, Lusk. Tel: 8437445 / 8437320 is about half a mile beyond Blakes Cross on the road to Lusk. This nursery has been going since the 50's and indeed it was from Petrus (Laddie) De Jong I learned almost all I know about rose cultivation when I was only 14! It is the jewel in the crown of North County Dublin nurseries but never advertises. Doesn't have to.  _________________ Retired trouble-maker. twitters @walltoall and dreams of being promoted to Pedunculate Oaker. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
DoubleDigger Rank attained: Hazel Tree


Joined: 23 Apr 2009 Posts: 2
|
|
Back to top |
|
 |
walltoall Rank attained: Orchard owner

Joined: 25 Aug 2008 Posts: 706 Location: Thurrock RM15 via Dungarvan and the Banner County
|
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:32 pm Post subject: |
|
|
DoubleDigger
When you turn off the old "Belfast Road" (R132) at Blakes Cross towards Skerries (R127) you shortly cross a bridge over the White River. Another couple of hundred yards and you pass Ballealy Lane on the right. Climbing a bit of a hill you pass on your left a tree-lined avenue, locally known as "Hanna's Avenue". About 100 yards further on the left is (or at least used to be) the entrance to Marian Nursery, just beyond what were WW1 vintage cottages. Google shows the cottages but not clearly.
N50,30'32" x 6,10'58.60" is my plot of the gate from Google Earth and it certainly looks that Marian Nurseries is alive and well from what I can [vaguely] see in the picture,
EDIT: additional info Paul the "another nursery" you show on your googler map IS the Marian Nursery. Ask for Laddie and tell him the "Nurses Son" sent you. _________________ Retired trouble-maker. twitters @walltoall and dreams of being promoted to Pedunculate Oaker. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
Heather Rank attained: Hazel Tree

Joined: 21 Apr 2009 Posts: 6 Location: North Co Dublin
|
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:15 am Post subject: |
|
|
Thanks everybody for the useful reply!
I've noticed that this week the sales are on in B&Q, where you can find really cheap fruit trees. Do you think they would be good quality though? |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
Heather Rank attained: Hazel Tree

Joined: 21 Apr 2009 Posts: 6 Location: North Co Dublin
|
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:25 am Post subject: Re: seeing as how you are almost out as far as Blake's cross |
|
|
walltoall wrote: | Ciao Heather, what is it you would like to grow? Marian Nurseries: Garden Centre, Newhaggard, Lusk. Tel: 8437445 / 8437320 is about half a mile beyond Blakes Cross on the road to Lusk. This nursery has been going since the 50's and indeed it was from Petrus (Laddie) De Jong I learned almost all I know about rose cultivation when I was only 14! It is the jewel in the crown of North County Dublin nurseries but never advertises. Doesn't have to.  |
Hi walltoall!
I would like to grow apples, pears, cherries and plums. My garden isn't too big (4.5x15m) and the soil is limy, but it's south facing. Also, do you think I could go for big plants (especially around the walls, to get some shade and privacy during the summer) or should I go for the 6ft version?
Thanks all for the swift replies!
 |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
walltoall Rank attained: Orchard owner

Joined: 25 Aug 2008 Posts: 706 Location: Thurrock RM15 via Dungarvan and the Banner County
|
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:07 am Post subject: A nice little orchard |
|
|
Heather! Since you are in the the North County you should, if you're able, go out to Marian Nurseries with a plan of your garden and tell them what you would like to do. Yes! You can buy saplings in B+Q and you may be lucky. But big chains buy on price and it's not a good idea to be getting stock from B+Q. You have a garden about the same size as mine, so my suggestion would be for you to go for dwarf stock. These grow to about 8' eventually but can deliver over 100 apples, 200 plums, 1000 cherries. Pears are very slow to grow and to fruit. You may have to wait 5 or 10 years but then that's what gardening is all about. (I have a 5yo mulberry which just MAY fruit from about 2015!)
Don't waste a south-facing wall on any of these fruits. Grow a fig! My 5yr old "Brown Turkey" has 60 babies on it at the minute, which may be ripe in late June if I'm lucky. With a further bit of luck I'll get a second crop in September because I'm down at 51.30N and get an awful lot of sun. The south-facing wall will also suit grapes. I get 5 to 10 kgs off mine on average. Blackbirds will decimate your cherries as soon as they turn red (the cherries that is, not the blackbirds) unless you use netting (Another reason for having dwarf stock)
Starlings will nick all your grapes in September unless you take precautions. Bullfinches will eat the buds off anything that blossoms just after the blossoms fall they eat the buds! So get to know your birds. _________________ Retired trouble-maker. twitters @walltoall and dreams of being promoted to Pedunculate Oaker. |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
Heather Rank attained: Hazel Tree

Joined: 21 Apr 2009 Posts: 6 Location: North Co Dublin
|
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:15 am Post subject: |
|
|
Walltoall, Thanks a million!
I will sure follow your advice and might visit the nursery in the afternoon.
I'll have to start taking up birdwatching as well as gardening...
Thanks, thanks and again thanks!  |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
breezyacre Rank attained: Silver Birch Tree


Joined: 07 Mar 2009 Posts: 164 Location: Drogheda, Ireland
|
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 9:16 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I know it's a long time since this query was made about a nursery in North County Dublin but I happened to search the same topic recently and I visited Marian Nursery. I believe I met Petrus, though I didn't ask his name, and I bought two roses. He spent about twenty minutes talking with us and sharing his vast knowledge of roses. It was one of the most rewarding visits to a garden centre I have ever made Thanks for the directions and recommendation _________________ Is ar scáth a chéile a mairimid |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
|
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 10:17 am Post subject: |
|
|
walltoall wrote: | N50,30'32" x 6,10'58.60" is my plot of the gate from Google Earth and it certainly looks that Marian Nurseries is alive and well from what I can [vaguely] see in the picture,
|
Those co-ordinates are just north of the Scilly Isles. The correct ones are N53,30'32" x 6,10'58.60". _________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
|
Back to top |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum You can attach files in this forum You can download files in this forum
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group
Privacy Policy | Copyright © 2006 - present IrishGardeners.com (part of GardenPlansIreland.com)
|