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Sunset apple trees

Pick: Late-season    Flowering group: 3   Self-fertile    Uses: Eat fresh | Juicing 
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Sunset apple tree

Sunset is a popular Cox-style apple, which we recommend as one of the best alternatives to Cox's Orange Pippin as it is much easier to grow. The parentage is not known but it is almost certainly a seedling of Cox. Disease resistance is far better, cropping is good and reliable, and it is self-fertile.

The flavour is balanced and sweet, with many of the aromatic qualities of Cox's Orange Pippin. Sunset also has the attractive orange-flush so characteristic of Cox and other traditional English apples.

Sunset ripens in mid-September.

Order now for delivery September 2013 onwards

Sunset apple trees for sale

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Pot-grown fruit trees (Delivery start September 2013)

Very small (1.5m - 2m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - M27 rootstock £38.00
Small (1.8m - 2.5m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - M9 rootstock £38.00
Medium (2.2m - 3m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - M26 rootstock £38.00
Large (3m - 4m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - MM106 rootstock £38.00

Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Very small (1.5m - 2m)1-year - Bare-root - M27 rootstock £30.00
Medium (2.2m - 3m)1-year - Bare-root - M26 rootstock £29.00
Medium (2.2m - 3m)2-year - Bare-root - M26 rootstock £33.00
Large (3m - 4m)1-year - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £29.00
Large (3m - 4m)2-year bush-trained - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £36.00
Large (3m - 4m)Half-standard - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £34.00
Full size (5m+)Standard 1.75m - Bare-root - M25 rootstock £36.00

Pot-grown cordon fruit trees (Delivery start September 2013)

Small (1.8m - 2.5m)Cordon premium - 12L pot - M9 rootstock £39.00

Bare-root cordon fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Small (1.8m - 2.5m)Cordon - Bare-root - M9 rootstock £39.00

Trained fruit trees - pot-grown (Delivery start September 2013)

Price excludes delivery and delivery restrictions may apply
Large (3m - 4m)Espalier 2-tier -12L pot - MM106 rootstock £49.00 Sold out
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Large (3m - 4m)Fan 4-arm -12L pot - MM106 rootstock £49.00Enquire

**All prices include delivery (except certain fan-trained or espalier-trained or mature trees). We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.

2-year pot-grown Fan-trained and Espalier trees: Prices of these trees do NOT include delivery as they require special delivery arrangements. Delivery is not possible to all areas. Click here for details or contact us to find out more. These restrictions do not apply to our 1-year part-trained trees or cordons.

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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Alternatives to Sunset apple trees

Alternative fruit trees - Fiesta apple trees
Late-season  (3)  
Eat | Juice 

Fiesta apple trees

A very similar Cox-style apple.
Alternative fruit trees - Rubinette apple trees
Late-season  (3)  
Eat 

Rubinette apple trees

Considered by many to be the best-tasting apple available, Rubinette has a perfect sweet / sharp flavour.
Alternative fruit trees - Cox's Orange Pippin apple trees
Mid-season  (3)  
Eat | Cook | Juice 

Cox's Orange Pippin apple trees

Cox is widely acknowledged as having the best flavour of any apple variety.




Summary features of Sunset

Growing

Uses

Identification

  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Period of origin: 1900 - 1949
  • Fruit colour: Orange flush
  • Blossom colour: White
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Popular variety

Climate



Pollination guide for Sunset

Sunset is in flowering group 3. Sunset is self-fertile and does not need a pollination partner, although fruiting may be improved if there is a compatible tree of a different variety nearby. Since it flowers in the middle of the blossom season it can be pollinated by most other apple trees.



How to grow Sunset apple trees

The main horticultural problem with Sunset is that the apples tend to be quite small, but this is easily corrected by thinning the fruitlets thoroughly in May and early June.

Sunset can be grown reliably throughout much of the UK.

It is a neat and compact tree, and a good variety for growing in a patio container.



Varieties with similar picking times to Sunset

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Alkmene
Charles Ross
Cox's Orange Pippin
Gala
Holstein
Ribston Pippin

Allington Pippin
Bardsey
Egremont Russet
Honeycrisp
Red Delicious
Santana
Tickled Pink

Annie Elizabeth
Blenheim Orange
Bramley 20
Bramley's Seedling
Catshead
Chivers Delight
Christmas Pippin
Dumelow's Seedling
Empire
Fameuse
Golden Delicious
Golden Noble
Golden Pippin
Golden Russet
Howgate Wonder
Jonathan
Jupiter
Karmijn de Sonnaville
King of the Pippins
Lady (Api)
Laxton's Superb
Pixie
Rajka
Rosemary Russet
Rubinette
Saturn
Scotch Bridget



Historical details

Introduced in 1918, unknown parentage but assumed to be a seedling of Cox's Orange Pippin.



Botanical name

Malus domestica Sunset



Related variety collections

UK dessert apple orchard collection, Cox's Orange Pippin substitutes, Fruit trees for growing in containers and pots


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