In 2025 we again have a broad range of nuts trees, some available now but most in September or December for bare-root trees.
We prefer to sell by phone or email rather than on-line. Over the years we’ve had many questions and queries for advice before customers choose what they want and we would rather have a discussion with you and be sure we are providing the correct products so that you get what you need and we can build our customer knowledge. Please ask your questions before ordering if you’re unsure and we’ll do our best to help, many of the cultivars we offer (all of the Juglans/Carya) are pretty unusual in Europe and what info we have is often gleaned from various sources, some cultivars are almost completely unknown.
You can email Tom Tame on info@warwickshirewalnuts.co.uk or phone on 07816 674854
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We do some grafting ourselves and have another grafter in the UK who has done some for us but most come from Europe due to lack of scion wood & Carya rootstocks and time and experience, walnuts are one of the most difficult hardwoods to graft successfully. These small specialist suppliers in the Netherlands graft Carya and Juglans amongst other fruits and nuts and have the largest collection of rare and unusual cultivated Juglandaceae in Europe I would think. The commercial orchard varieties from France, USA etc mostly come from Bulgaria and are very robust Bare-Rooted trees lifted early in the winter to join trees we’ve grown on here.
Trees are grafted annually in January-May in northern Europe however in warmer climates they can be field bud grafted in summer so the commercial bare-root cultivars are often a year older (16-17m from grafting), hence their size when we receive them.
Many of the cultivated walnut species trees are bare-rooted where we are able but a few will be pot grown, usually in 3-7L pots. Bare-root plants will be lifted when dormant, probably the end of November.
All the Carya cultivars which are grown in pots (they do not transplant well!), with new trees available in September we hope. We will have a limited number of Pecan cultivars this year along with some hickories and Hicans but not as many as hoped due to the passing of Ton Friesen of De Smallekamp and the limited amount of scion wood available. There are a 3 new Shellbark Hickories and 1 new Pecan and next year we’ll maybe have a few new ones again, these are likely the only ones for sale and we never know if we’ll get them again.
A few of the hickories and all the Hicans are last year’s grafting and consequently getting up to 1-1.5m so will soon be collection only.
New Cultivars and Red Kernels
Over the last 8 years I’ve sourced as many cultivars as I can that were of potential interest for either commercial orchards or unusual nuts. We have a few more Heartnut cultivars that I haven’t had for a while, there are 17 cultivars at present as we got lucky last year and got twice what we’d normally expect. There are small numbers of 4 more black walnut cultivars as I wanted to put a few in here, these won’t be available again consistently I don’t think once they’re gone.
There a few Red Kernelled varieties in stock, probably collection only and in future we’ll only stock Purpurovy & Kardinal I think. We have small numbers of some modern commercial cultivars in pots, these are UK grafted and 40-80cm usually, they’re the surplus from our own plantings here.
We’ve also started to concentrate on special pollinators for commercial orchards, trialling a number of different cultivars for very late pollen, we’ll have some this year but hope to have more regular availability in the future as our knowledge increases.
Lastly we have grafted some of our own selected seedlings, we have 5 that we’ve selected to graft and 4 available in limited numbers this year. These are all very late into leaf on a par with Franquette/Fernor and have lateral fruiting with a nice nut on average 28-32mm, heaver shells than most commercial nuts but ideally suited to late frost areas or northern latitudes. They are partially self-fertile, overlapping quite well most years with heavy late pollen.
Red kernels, Dwarf trees, Giant Nuts, Heartnuts, Buartnuts, Black walnuts, Butternuts, Pecans, Hickories, Hicans.
The availability of many of these is rarely consistent year on year, we do try to get the same Heartnut cultivars for example but scion wood can be limited and we might wait a couple of years to get the same ones.