Full Season Rhubarb Collection
Never run out of fresh rhubarb!
Grown by John
South Downs National Park
Perfectly happy plants, or your money back
Specialist overnight plant delivery
The highlights
- Three exceptionally flavourful varieties
- Varieties chosen for successive cropping
- Make a tasty rhubarb and ginger cheesecake
- Harvest from March right through to August
Description
- Pick your own delicious, healthy rhubarb for longer with three top performing varieties that fruit in succession from March to August. These premium field-grown crowns are ready to plant and easy to grow, giving you a fresh supply of top quality rhubarb stalks for many years.
- You will receive three bare root rhubarb crowns - one each of Timperley Early (harvest from March to May), one Raspberry Red (harvest from March to June) and one Victoria (harvest from May to August). Timperley Early is the best for early forcing, with strong, red-pink stems which start to mature as soon as February. Mid-season Raspberry Red is a vibrant crimson rhubarb with a sweet flavour. Late season Victoria is easy to grow and produces plenty of green, pink-flushed stalks with a delicious sweet flavour. It's suitable for late forcing too.
- Timperley Early and Raspberry Red are RHS Award of Garden Merit winners
- Fully hardy and long lived, rhubarb plants will produce stalks for at least ten years.
- Grow outdoors in a sunny border or even a large container, leaving 90-100cm between plants as they like to spread out. Check our individual plant pages for detailed growing instructions and measurements.
- Cook your rhubarb with sugar for perfect crumbles, jams, fools and pies.
- Only the stalks are edible; the leaves are mildly poisonous and should never be consumed.
- Plants will produce stalks in the first season after planting, but you'll need to leave these alone to allow the plant to establish itself. From the second year onwards, you can harvest as much as you like from April to June, when the leaves have fully unfurled and the stems are at least 30cm long. Rhubarb plants benefit from mulching with compost or manure every autumn.
South Downs National Park
Meet John
110 years' expertise free with every plant
You simply can’t buy better fruit plants and here’s why. John grows them outdoors, just like his family has done since 1908, so they’re more than a match for the UK weather. John only has time for the top performing varieties, meaning that you can be assured of a successful (and blooming tasty) soft fruit crop.
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Our plants are grown in the UK
Specialist UK growers we know and trust grow your plants the traditional way, with organic fertiliser and biological pest control. They pick only the healthiest plants for you, professionally pruning them so that they’ll grow strong and well shaped.
Our plants are delivered overnight
Your plants are sent to you fresh from the field in our plastic free box that’s specially designed to hold them tight, then securely delivered by specialist plant couriers - straight from the grower to your garden within 24 hours.
We're here to help at every step
We want your plants to have a long and healthy life. Expect easy-to-follow grow guides and videos devised by our team of experts.
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How do I know I'm getting quality plants?
All of our plants are grown in specialist nurseries with the highest standards of plant care and sustainability. We guarantee you'll love them as much as we do! Don't just take our word for it - we've got thousands of great reviews on Trustpilot.
When will I get my plants?
The delivery timescale for each plant is on the web page (near the 'add to basket's button). You'll receive a dispatch email with an exact delivery date once your plants are on their way, so you can get the garden ready.
How will my plants be packed and delivered?
We send all of our orders through a courier network designed to handle plants. Specialist equipment ensures that no plants will be damaged during the packing process and every order is carefully finished and checked by plant-loving humans. Your plants will arrive in the most sustainable packaging possible with minimal to no plastic used.
Where do you deliver?
We deliver to anywhere in Mainland UK for our standard delivery cost. We are able to deliver most plants to Highlands and non UK mainland however this will be at an additional cost. This will be calculated at the checkout. Please note, deliveries to these locations will take longer. Unfortunately, we are not able to deliver to Northern Ireland at present.
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