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Gala apple trees

Pick: Late-season    Flowering group: 4       Uses: Eat fresh | Juicing 
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Gala apple tree

One of the most popular supermarket apple varieties, and a good mid-season variety for the garden in many areas. The sweet flavour of ripe Gala apples eaten straight from the tree is quite a surprise compared to supermarket examples.

Gala is also a good variety for juicing, as you might expect the flavor is rich and sweet, useful for mixing with other sharper varieties.

Because of the commercial importance of Gala a large number of Gala "sports" exist. These are naturally occuring mutations, and are mostly indistinguishable from the original in terms of flavor but may have a deeper coloration or more pronounced flush to the skin.

Order now for delivery September 2013 onwards

Gala apple trees for sale

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Pot-grown fruit trees (Delivery start September 2013)

Large (3m - 4m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - MM106 rootstock £38.00

Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Small (1.8m - 2.5m)1-year - Bare-root - M9 rootstock £29.00
Medium (2.2m - 3m)1-year - Bare-root - M26 rootstock £29.00
Large (3m - 4m)1-year - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £29.00

**All prices include delivery. We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.

Delivery period: Pot-grown trees can be delivered from September onwards. Bare-root trees can be delivered from mid-November onwards. Within those periods you can specify your preferred month of delivery during the checkout process. It is best to order as soon as you can to ensure items are reserved for you.

*Mature heights: Height shown is the approximate height of the tree when mature (after 5-10 years), not the height when supplied. See photos of trees as supplied. Actual mature heights may vary considerably dependent on your local conditions and training and pruning regime - see our Tree Height Calculator.

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Summary features of Gala

Growing

Uses

Identification

  • Country of origin: New Zealand
  • Period of origin: 1900 - 1949
  • Fruit colour: Orange / Red
  • Blossom colour: Pink - light
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Popular variety

Climate



Pollination guide for Gala

Gala is in flowering group 4. Gala is partially self-fertile, but fruiting will be improved if there is a compatible tree of a different variety nearby.



How to grow Gala apple trees

Gala is widely grown on a commercial basis in South Africa, Chile, New Zealand, and France. One of its unique characteristics is that Gala will produce good-quality apples across an unusually wide range of climates from cool temperate to hot.

Gala can be grown successfully in the south, central, and east of the UK, and crops well.

Gala appears to be susceptible to just about every problem known to affect apples, but don't let this put you off. In practice, provided you have a dry climate, it is not too difficult to grow - and the flavour of home-grown ripe Gala apples us worth a bit of effort.

Most sports of Gala have some degree of self-fertility - but will set much better crops if there is a nearby pollination partner.



Varieties with similar picking times to Gala

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Ellison's Orange
Greensleeves
Limelight
Lord Lambourne
McIntosh
Meridian
Norfolk Royal Russet
Peasgood's Nonsuch
Red Devil
Red Windsor
Saint Edmund's Russet
Worcester Pearmain

Alkmene
Charles Ross
Cox's Orange Pippin
Holstein
Ribston Pippin

Allington Pippin
Bardsey
Egremont Russet
Honeycrisp
Red Delicious
Santana
Sunset
Tickled Pink



Historical details

Developed by New Zealand apple enthusiast J.H. Kidd from one of his earlier successes, Kidd's Orange Red, which he crossed with Golden Delicious. Through this parentage Gala unites three of the world's most influential apple varieties, Cox's Orange Pippin, Delicious, and Golden Delicious.



Botanical name

Malus domestica Gala



Related variety collections

Supermarket favourite apple varieties, Apple trees for southern Europe


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