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 have kept this document simple and just listed our trees by name rather than including descriptions which can be viewed online on our web site, a few still to do as of July 8th 2026.
We do some grafting ourselves 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. I have sourced some specialist cultivars from France as a one off service but prices are much higher that the Bulgarian trees.
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 are grown in air pots (they do not transplant well!), with new trees available in September we hope. We have a reasonable number of Pecan cultivars this year along with some hickories and hicans. There are a few new Carya cultivars this year but numbers are very limited, scion wood is rare in Europe for most pecans & hickories. I have rootstocks here to graft some Carya next winter for the first time now our older trees have some spare wood.
A few of the Hickories 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 about 16 Heartnut cultivars some that I haven’t had for a while, there are also small numbers of black walnut & butternut cultivars and a good stock number of buartnuts some of which were grafted here as well.
There are a few new red-kernelled walnuts, probably as a one off unless they prove to be later bud breaking than expected, we have a good number of the later Kardinal but no Purpurovy until I graft some this coming winter.
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 some 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, numbers are very limited.
Collection and Delivery
Local collection (CV36 5AR) by appointment (Tom Tame 07816 674854) is our preferred option as there is no chance of any damage or loss in transit, we also save the packaging (and the planet) and we get to meet others interested in walnuts! We can also deliver locally if required at 50p per mile within 20 miles, further afield for large quantities.
We offer a 5% discount for collection of 5 or more trees