Apple trees

Browse our huge range of high quality apple trees for sale. We are fruit tree specialists and can advise on all aspects of choosing and planting apple trees.

Adams Pearmain
Adams' Pearmain is a popular Victorian-era English apple with a distinctive 'pearmain' shape.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Annie Elizabeth
A traditional English cooking apple, with a sweet flavour, which keeps its shape when cooked.
£34.95 - £43.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Arthur Turner
A mid-season cooking apple, producing a light yellow puree. Very attractive blossom.
£34.95 - £43.00buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Ashmead's Kernel
A versatile English 17th century russet apple, Ashmead's Kernel is noted for its distinctive pear-like flavour.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Ballerina Flamenco®
Flamenco (also known as Obelisk) is a ballerina-style apple tree which grows as columnar minarette.
£34.95 - £36.95buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Ballerina Samba®
One of the best-flavoured Ballerina minarette-type apple varieties.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Bardsey
A hardy disease-resistant apple, discovered growing on an island off the west coast of Wales.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Beauty of Bath
One of the earliest English apples, ripening in early August.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Very early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Bladon PippinTM
A new Cox-style apple variety, but with a sweeter flavour - discovered as a chance seedling in the village of Bladon.
£36.50 - £58.75buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Blenheim Orange
Blenheim Orange is a classic English dual-purpose apple, useful for dessert and culinary purposes.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Bloody Ploughman
An old Scottish apple variety, named for the crimson-red colour of its skin and stained flesh.
£34.95 - £46.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Bountiful
Bountiful is an easy-to-grow cooking apple, it retains its shape when cooked, fairly sweet for a cooker.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Braeburn
Braeburn is one of the best-flavoured supermarket apple varieties.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Bramley 20
Bramley 20 is a naturally smaller version of Bramley's Seedling (the apples are the same size though).
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Bramley's Seedling
Bramley is the essential English cooking apple, famous for its rich sharp acidity.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Bright Future
An excellent late-season English apple with a very good sweet/sharp flavour and crisp hard flesh.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Brownlees Russet
Brownlees Russet is a high quality late-season dessert russet apple.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Charles Ross
Charles Ross is a very attractive classic English dual-purpose apple.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Chivers Delight
Chivers Delight is an under-rated Cox-style apple from Cambridgeshire. Crisp and sweet.
£34.95 - £43.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Christmas Pippin®
Christmas Pippin is a new high-yielding Cox-style apple, discovered as a chance seedling tree.
£34.95 - £64.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Claygate Pearmain
Claygate Pearmain is a popular English dessert apple of the Victorian era.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Core BlimeyTM
Core Blimey is a red Cox-style eating apple, suitable for most areas of the UK.
£35.95 - £58.75buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Cornish Aromatic
An attractive late-season apple from Cornwall, with a good aromatic flavour.
£34.95 - £35.75buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Cornish Gilliflower
Cornish Gilliflower is a popular English eating apple with an excellent sweet aromatic flavour.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Coul Blush
Coul Blush is an early-season dual-purpose apple from Scotland.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Court Pendu Plat
Court Pendu Plant is a traditional French apple with an aromatic pear-drop flavour.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 6
Cox's Orange Pippin
Cox is widely acknowledged as having the best flavour of any apple variety.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Crispin
Crispin (also known as Mutsu) is a high quality apple from Japan, with a good flavour, and also sharp enough for cooking.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
D'Arcy Spice
An old English apple variety, yet with a unique flavour and many unusual qualities.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Delbarestivale
An attractive heavy-cropping September apple with a good flavour.
£43.00buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Devonshire Quarrenden
A very old English summer apple, with a vinous strawberry flavour, grown throughout the UK.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Very early
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Discovery
Discovery is the definitive early-season English apple variety, makes a good fruit tree for the garden.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Eden®
A new dual-purpose apple which has a naturally non-browning flesh, ideal for salads and fresh apple juice.
£36.25 - £64.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Egremont Russet
Egremont Russet is the most popular English russet variety, and a good apple tree for the garden.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Ellison's Orange
Ellison's Orange is a well respected Cox-style apple which can achieve very good flavour.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fiesta
Fiesta (or Red Pippin) is one of the best Cox-style apples, easy to grow, with a good aromatic flavour.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Gala
Gala is popular supermarket apple - but better when home-grown, with a sweet pleasant flavour.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Galloway Pippin
A traditional Scottish cooking apple which keeps its shape when cooked.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS 1st class
Golden Delicious
The flavour of home-grown Golden Delicious is far better than its supermarket reputation.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Granny Smith
Granny Smith is the world-famous green apple from Australia, a good choice for warmer apple-growing regions.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Greensleeves
Greensleeves is a reliable and popular mid-season green/yellow apple, easy to grow and productive.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Grenadier
Grenadier is an early-season cooking apple, and one of the most foolproof apple varieties.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Herefordshire Russet
Herefordshire Russet is a modern russet apple variety, with an excellent strong Cox-like flavour.
£35.50 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Hidden Rose®
Hidden Rose is named for the unexpected pink flesh hidden behind the plain green skin.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Honeycrisp
Honeycrisp is an American cold-hardy disease-resistant apple - it shows just how good modern apples have become.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Howgate Wonder
Howgate Wonder is a large cooking apple which keeps well. Produces an excellent sharp juice.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Irish Peach
Irish Peach is a popular early season apple, ripening in July / August. It is easy to grow and low maintenance.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Very early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Isaac Newton's Tree
Also known as Flower of Kent, this is the variety the famous scientist Sir Isaac Newton sat under.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 5
James Grieve
James Grieve is the classic Scottish dual-purpose apple. It can be eaten fresh, and is also excellent for juicing and cooking.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Jonagold
Jonagold is a high quality American apple, with a good balanced sweet/sharp flavor.
£34.95 - £44.25buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Jumbo
A dual-purpose apple, named for the exceptionally large size of its fruits.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Jupiter
Jupiter is a popular Cox-style apple with a slightly stronger flavour.
£34.95 - £44.75buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Katy
Katy is an attractive and versatile early apple variety from Sweden, very easy to grow.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Keswick Codlin
Keswick Codlin is a popular early-season cooking apple, easy to grow, and productive in most climates.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Kidd's Orange Red
Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
King of the Pippins
A popular and versatile dual-purpose apple, widely grown in the Victorian era.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
King's Acre Pippin
A traditional late-season English apple with a robust flavour.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Lady Henniker
A well-regarded Victorian dual-purpose apple, easy to grow.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Lane's Prince Albert
A classic Victorian cooking apple. Plenty of juicy acidity and stores well.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Laxton's Fortune
A quietly popular Edwardian era Cox-style apple, developed by the Laxton Brothers Nursery.
£34.95 - £46.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Laxton's Superb
Laxton's Superb is a deservedly popular English late-season dessert apple from the Victorian era.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Limelight
Limelight is an attractive green mid-season dessert apple, ideal for beginners.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Little PaxTM
A new English apple variety, recently discovered on the Isle of Wight - but its appearance and flavour hark back to the Victorian era.
£35.75 - £64.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Lord Derby
Lord Derby is a high-quality mid/late-season traditional English cooking apple, cooks to a chunky puree.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Lord Lambourne
Lord Lambourne is a popular versatile garden apple variety, with a good balance of sweet and sharp flavours.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Melrose
Melrose is a well-regarded American apple, with a pleasant sweet flavour.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Meridian
Meridian is a little known modern English apple, heavy crops, easy to grow, and excellent flavour.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Morgan Sweet
Morgan Sweet is a traditional English cider variety producing a full sweet juice.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Newton Wonder
A traditional English cooking apple, a good alternative to Bramley.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Norfolk Royal Russet
Norfolk Royal Russet is a glorious golden-russet apple which tastes as good as it looks.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Orleans Reinette
Orleans Reinette is a traditional French apple variety, and remains popular for its old-fashioned flavour.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Peasgood's Nonsuch
Peasgood Nonsuch is a highly-regarded old-fashioned English cooking apple.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Pendragon
Pendragon is a red-fleshed dual-purpose apple from Cornwall.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 6
Pinova
An attractive disease-resistant dessert apple, capable of producing good clean fruit without chemical sprays.
£34.95 - £44.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Pitmaston Pine Apple
A small English 18th century apple with a distinctive fruity pineapple-like flavour.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Pixie
Pixie produces lots of small Cox-style apples, easy to grow and keep well.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Prince William
Prince William is a modern bittersweet cider variety from the famous Long Ashton Research Station.
£35.50 - £43.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Queen Cox
A modern self-fertile form of the renowned Cox's Orange Pippin, with arguably even better flavour.
£34.95 - £44.00buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Queen of the RealmTM
A new apple variety, released in 2022 to celebrate the Queen's platinum jubilee.
£34.95 - £59.25buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Rainbow®
Rainbow is a very late season apple with a bright white sweet/sharp flesh which does not brown. The apples keep until spring.
£59.00buy
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Rajka
Rajka is a modern disease-resistant heavy-cropping apple variety with a good sweet/sharp flavour.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Red Devil
Red Devil is a good apple variety for the UK garden, and produces a sweet red-tinted juice.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Red Falstaff®
Red Falstaff is one of the best garden apple trees, heavy crops, easy to grow, and very juicy.
£35.50 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Red Windsor®
Red Windsor is one of the easiest to grow of all dessert apple trees, and with a pleasant apple flavour.
£34.95 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Reverend W. Wilks
A widely-grown and well-regarded English cooking apple.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Ribston Pippin
A handsome English apple from the 18th century.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Roberts Red
Roberts Red or Roberts Crab is an unusual red-fleshed crab-apple, with dark pink blossom, and purple fruits. Useful for cooking and produces a claret red colour juice.
£36.75 - £61.50buy
Rosemary Russet
A classic English russet apple with excellent flavours, but not as well known as its Victorian contemporaries.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
RosetteTM
Probably the best-flavoured of the pink-fleshed apple varieties, and produces lovely pink juice.
£34.95 - £64.00buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Saint Edmund's Russet
Not as well known as other russets, St. Edmund's Russet is nevertheless one of the best.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Santana
Santana is a good quality disease-resistant apple, notable for low levels of allergenic compounds.
£44.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Saturn
An attractive modern English apple, crisp flesh and an excellent flavour.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Scotch Bridget
A popular Scottish cooking apple, well-suited to damp wet conditions.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Scotch Dumpling
Scotch Dumpling is a large Scottish cooking apple. Cooks to a frothy puree with a good flavour.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Scrumptious
Scrumptious is a modern award-winning early-season English dessert apple.
£34.95 - £64.00buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Spartan
Spartan produces lots of crimson maroon apples, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, delicate "vinous" flavour.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Stirling Castle
A traditional Scottish cooker from the Victorian era, with a good sharp flavour.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Sunset
Sunset is a popular garden alternative to Cox, easier to grow, with a sweet aromatic flavour.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
SurprizeTM
An unusual new apple variety with a unique combination of orange skin and pink flesh.
£36.25 - £64.00buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Tickled Pink
A new red-fleshed apple variety, with attractive crimson blossom, also known as Baya® Marisa.
£34.95 - £64.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Tom Putt
An old traditional English cider variety with a sharp juice, which can also be used for cooking.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Topaz
A modern and reliable disease-resistant variety with a sharp flavour.
£34.95 - £46.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Tydeman's Late Orange
Tydeman's Late Orange is an excellent late-season Cox-style aromatic apple.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Warner's King
An 18th century English cooker which remains popular. Cooks to a sharp-flavoured puree.
£35.75 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
William Crump
A little-known high quality English apple, related to Cox and Worcester Pearmain.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Winter Gem
Winter Gem is a late-season apple variety with a very good aromatic flavour.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Worcester Pearmain
Worcester Pearmain is a well-known early-season English apple, noted for its strawberry-like flavours.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Yellow Ingestrie
One of the prettiest of all apples, perfect for a table display, with a rich fruity flavour.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3

How to choose Apple trees

Apple trees are generally easy to grow, and because there are so many apple varieties there is invariably a good choice for almost any growing situation, from cool temperate to subtropical.

Apples are perhaps the most versatile of all temperate fruits, and one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. Almost all cultivated apple varieties belong to the species Malus domestica, and are botanically part of the Rose family - apple blossom has an obvious resemblance to wild rose flowers. Apples trees were one of the earliest fruit trees to be cultivated, and originate from central Asia. There are now thousands of different apple cultivars or varieties.

Apples display perhaps a greater range of flavours, appearance, and texture than any other tree fruits. This diversity makes apples a particularly satisifying fruit for home cultivation. Without much difficulty (or space) one can grow a number of different apple trees which will keep a family supplied with fresh apples from mid-summer to late autumn, and with a good spread of flavours and uses.