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Pollination of Christmas Pearmain apple trees
Your
Christmas Pearmain apple tree is in
flowering group 2.
It is
self-fertile and does not need a pollination partner, but fruiting will usually be improved if there is a compatible partner of a different variety nearby.
The following varieties should pollinate this apple tree.
(Most
white-blossom crab-apples will also be good pollinators for this variety).
Pollination partner apple varieties in our catalogue
A mid-season cooking apple, producing a light yellow puree. Very attractive blossom.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Mid-Late seasonStock availability:
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root MM106
A ballerina-style apple tree which grows as columnar minarette.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
A hardy disease-resistant apple, discovered growing on an island off the west coast of Wales.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-sterile
Picking season: Mid-Late seasonStock availability:
One of the earliest English apples, ripening in early August.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-sterile
Picking season: Early seasonStock availability:
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root MM106
- Standard 1.75m bare-root M25
Bountiful is an easy-to-grow cooking apple, it retains its shape when cooked, fairly sweet for a cooker.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-sterile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability:
- Cordon bare-root M9
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M26
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown MM106
An excellent late-season English apple with a very good sweet/sharp flavour and crisp hard flesh.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
Charles Ross is a very attractive classic English dual-purpose apple.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M9
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M26
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root MM106
Christmas Pippin is a new high-yielding Cox-style apple, discovered as a chance seedling tree.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- Cordon bare-root M9
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M26
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown M26
- 1-year bare-root M116
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bare-root MM106
- Half-standard premium pot-grown MM106
Discovery is the definitive early-season English apple variety, makes a good fruit tree for the garden.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Early seasonStock availability:
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 1-year bare-root MM106
A new dual-purpose apple which has a naturally non-browning flesh, ideal for salads and fresh apple juice.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-sterile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown M27
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown M26
Egremont Russet is the most popular English russet variety, and a good apple tree for the garden.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- 2-year patio-tree pot-grown M27
- Cordon bare-root M9
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M9
- Cordon premium pot-grown M9
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M26
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown M26
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown MM106
- Half-standard premium pot-grown MM106
- Standard 1.75m bare-root M25
Granny Smith is the world-famous green apple from Australia, a good choice for warmer apple-growing regions.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Very-Late seasonStock availability:
Greensleeves is a reliable and popular mid-season green/yellow apple, easy to grow and productive.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M26
- 1-year bare-root MM106
Grenadier is an early-season cooking apple, and one of the most foolproof apple varieties.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Early-Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown MM106
Herefordshire Russet is a modern russet apple variety, with an excellent strong Cox-like flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- 2-year patio-tree pot-grown M27
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M9
- Cordon bare-root M9
- Cordon premium pot-grown M9
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M26
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown M26
- 1-year bare-root M116
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown MM106
- Standard 1.75m bare-root M25
Howgate Wonder is a large cooking apple which keeps well. Produces an excellent sharp juice.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M9
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M26
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown MM106
- Standard 1.75m bare-root M25
Idared is a popular American late-season apple variety, notable for its excellent keeping qualities.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-sterile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability: sold out
An attractive early season apple, ripening in July / August.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-sterile
Picking season: Early seasonStock availability:
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root MM106
- Half-standard bare-root MM106
- Standard 1.75m bare-root M25
James Grieve is the classic Scottish cooking apple. It can also be eaten fresh, and is excellent for juice.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M9
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 1-year bare-root M116
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bare-root MM106
- Half-standard premium pot-grown MM106
- 1-year bare-root M25
- Standard 1.75m bare-root M25
Katy is an attractive and versatile early apple variety from Sweden, very easy to grow.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Early-Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M9
- Cordon bare-root M9
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root MM106
Keswick Codlin is a popular early-season cooking apple, easy to grow, and productive in most climates.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Stock availability:
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown MM106
Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Mid-Late seasonStock availability:
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown M26
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown MM106
A quietly popular Edwardian era Cox-style apple, developed by the Laxton Brothers Nursery.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Stock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root MM106
Limelight is an attractive green mid-season dessert apple, ideal for gardens.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability:
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root MM106
A new English apple variety, recently discovered on the Isle of Wight - but its appearance and flavour hark back to the Victorian era.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M9
- Cordon premium pot-grown M9
- Cordon bare-root M9
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M26
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown M26
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root MM106
- Half-standard premium pot-grown MM106
Lord Lambourne is a popular versatile garden apple variety, with a good balance of sweet and sharp flavours.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability:
Admiration is a naturally dwarf upright crab-apple with masses of light-pink / white flowers.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Very-Late seasonStock availability:
Butterball has bright white blossom and attractive butter-yellow fruits.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
Malus Profusion is a notably compact crab apple variety, with dense clusters of deep pink blossom.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-fertile
Picking season: Early seasonStock availability:
- 1-year bare-root Semi-vigorous
- 2-year pot-grown Semi-vigorous
Evereste is one of the most well-known crab-apples, featuring white blossom and red-yellow fruits.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
An attractive spreading crab-apple tree with white blossom and red / yellow fruits.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-fertile
Picking season: Stock availability: sold out
Malus Gorgeous features light pink blossom and is good for crab apple jelly.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Very-Late seasonStock availability:
- 1-year bare-root Semi-vigorous
- 2-year pot-grown Semi-vigorous
A superb all-round crab apple, bronze leaves, and persistent red fruits.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Very-Late seasonStock availability:
- N/A bare-root Semi-vigorous
- 2-year pot-grown Semi-vigorous
A compact crab apple, with unusually large persistent fruits - excellent for crab apple jelly.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- 2-year pot-grown Semi-vigorous
A dwarf upright crab apple with bronze leaves and crimson blossom.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability: sold out
Malus Louisa is a pretty weeping crab apple with light pink blossom.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- 2-year pot-grown Semi-vigorous
Pink Glow (also known as Malus Dolgo), has early-season white flowers and dark pink crab-apples.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-fertile
Picking season: Early seasonStock availability:
- 2-year pot-grown Semi-vigorous
Malus Red Sentinel has white blossom and small scarlet persistent fruits.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- 1-year bare-root Semi-vigorous
A red-fleshed crab-apple, with dark pink blossom, and purple fruits. Useful for cooking and juicing.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-fertile
Picking season: Early-Mid seasonStock availability: sold out
Malus Rosehip is notable for its large rosehip-shaped red fruits.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- 1-year bare-root Semi-vigorous
- 2-year pot-grown Semi-vigorous
A popular small weeping crab apple tree with crimson blossom.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability: sold out
Malus toringo Scarlett is an ornamental crab apple with purple/green leaves and pink blossom.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Very-Late seasonStock availability:
- 1-year bare-root Semi-vigorous
- 2-year pot-grown Semi-vigorous
Malus Sun Rival is a crab apple with white flowers, red fruits, notable for its weeping growth habit.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year pot-grown Semi-vigorous
Meridian is a little known modern English apple, heavy crops, easy to grow, and excellent flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Stock availability:
- 1-year bare-root M116
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown MM106
Peasgood Nonsuch is a highly-regarded old-fashioned English cooking apple.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Stock availability:
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- Standard 1.75m bare-root M25
Red Devil is a good apple variety for the UK garden, and produces a sweet red-tinted juice.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown M26
- 1-year bare-root M116
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root MM106
- Half-standard premium pot-grown MM106
- 1-year bare-root MM111
Red Falstaff is one of the best garden apple trees, heavy crops, easy to grow, and very juicy.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- Spindlebush bare-root M9
- Cordon bare-root M9
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 1-year bare-root M116
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- Half-standard premium pot-grown MM106
Red Windsor is one of the easiest to grow of all dessert apple trees, and with a pleasant apple flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-fertile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability:
- Spindlebush bare-root M9
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bare-root MM106
- Half-standard premium pot-grown MM106
A widely-grown and well-regarded English cooking apple.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-fertile
Picking season: Early seasonStock availability:
Probably the best-flavoured of the pink-fleshed apple varieties, and produces lovely pink juice.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-sterile
Picking season: Early seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M9
- Cordon premium pot-grown M9
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 1-year bare-root M116
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown M26
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root MM106
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown MM106
- Half-standard premium pot-grown MM106
- 1-year bare-root MM111
Considered by many to be the best-tasting apple ever, Rubinette has a lovely balanced sweet / sharp flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
Not as well known as other russets, St. Edmund's Russet is nevertheless one of the best.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Stock availability:
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- Standard 1.75m bare-root M25
An attractive modern English apple, crisp flesh and an excellent flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability: sold out
Scotch Dumpling is a large Scottish cooking apple. Cooks to a frothy puree with a good flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-sterile
Picking season: Early-Mid seasonStock availability:
Scumptious is a modern award-winning early-season English dessert apple.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Early-Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M9
- Spindlebush bare-root M9
- Cordon bare-root M9
- Cordon premium pot-grown M9
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 1-year bare-root M116
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root MM106
- 1-year bare-root MM111
Spartan produces lots of crimson maroon apples, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, delicate "vinous" flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root MM106
- Half-standard premium pot-grown MM106
- Half-standard bare-root MM106
Sunset is a popular garden alternative to Cox, easier to grow, with a sweet aromatic flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Stock availability:
- Cordon bare-root M9
- Cordon premium pot-grown M9
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M26
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown M26
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown MM106
- Half-standard premium pot-grown MM106
An unusual new apple variety with a unique combination of orange skin and pink flesh.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability:
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown M26
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M26
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown MM106
A little-known high quality English apple, related to Cox and Worcester Pearmain.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Mid-Late seasonStock availability:
- Standard 1.75m bare-root M25
Winter Gem is a late-season apple variety with a very good aromatic flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M9
- Cordon bare-root M9
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root MM106
Worcester Pearmain is a well-known early-season English apple, noted for its strawberry-like flavours.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Early-Mid seasonStock availability:
- 1-year bare-root M26
- 2-year bush-trained bare-root M26
- 1-year bare-root MM106
- Standard 1.75m bare-root M25
One of the prettiest of all apples, perfect for a table display, with a rich fruity flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Early-Mid seasonStock availability:
Other compatible varieties
We do not sell these varieties but they may be available from other fruit tree nurseries. Use our enquiry form and we will help you find a supplier.
- Airlie Red Flesh,
- Akero,
- Alexander,
- Alkmene,
- Almata,
- American Summer Pearmain,
- Antonovka Kamenichka,
- Ariane,
- Arlet,
- Aromatic Russet,
- Arthur W Barnes,
- Baumann's Reinette,
- Beeley Pippin,
- Benoni,
- Blue Pearmain,
- Bonza,
- Broadholme Beauty,
- Brownlees Russet,
- Bushey Grove,
- Cameo,
- Centennial Crab,
- Chestnut Crab,
- Clark's Seedling,
- Coconut Crunch,
- Coralburst,
- Crimson Crisp,
- Daliclass,
- Davey,
- Dawn,
- Delprim,
- Devonshire Quarrenden,
- Diamond Jubilee,
- Dog's Snout,
- Duchess of Oldenburg,
- Duke of Devonshire,
- Eden,
- Elise,
- Elstar,
- Elton Beauty,
- Emneth Early,
- Epicure,
- Erwin Bauer,
- Estivale,
- Falstaff,
- Fameuse,
- Fireside,
- Freedom,
- Freyberg,
- Frostbite,
- George Cave,
- Glockenapfel,
- Golden Harvey,
- Golden Nugget,
- Golden Pippin,
- Golden Russet,
- Golden Spire,
- Green Balsam,
- Haralson,
- Harrison,
- Hazen,
- Honeygold,
- Hudson's Golden Gem,
- Huonville Crab,
- Indo,
- Jazz,
- Jonafree,
- Jonagrimes,
- Jonared,
- Jonathan,
- July Red,
- Kandil Sinap,
- Kerry Pippin,
- Lady Apple,
- Lady Hollendale,
- Lady Williams,
- Lakeland,
- Langton's Nonsuch,
- Liset,
- Lobo,
- Lord Hindlip,
- Lord Peckover,
- Mairac,
- Maltster,
- Malus toringo,
- Mantet,
- Marbles NUVAR,
- McIntosh,
- Melrose,
- Merton Charm,
- Merton Prolific,
- Merton Russet,
- Merton Worcester,
- Miller's Seedling,
- Milton,
- New Rock Pippin,
- Norfolk Royal Russet,
- Northern Greening,
- Novaspy,
- Opal,
- Opal (Seabrook),
- Opalescent,
- Oriole,
- Paula Red,
- Perrine Yellow Transparent,
- Pink Lady,
- Pink Pearl,
- Pink Pearmain,
- Prairie Spy,
- Priam,
- Quinte,
- Red Jonathan,
- Rival,
- Rosemary Russet,
- Rubinola,
- Saint Everard,
- Sans Pareil,
- Shenandoah,
- Smitten,
- SnowSweet,
- Sops in Wine,
- State Fair,
- Stirling Castle,
- Sturmer Pippin,
- Sunburst,
- Suncrisp,
- Sunrise,
- Sweet Coppin,
- Thoday's Quarrenden,
- Tina,
- Upton Pyne,
- Vista Bella,
- Wayside,
- Wealthy,
- William's Pride,
- WineCrisp,
- Allington Pippin,
- Antonovka,
- Burgundy,
- Cortland,
- Cripps Red,
- Galarina,
- Grimes Golden,
- Hewe's Crab,
- King David,
- Macoun,
- Margil,
- Newtown Pippin,
- Porter's Perfection,
- Priscilla,
- Redfree,
- Sweet Sixteen,
- Topaz,
- Wickson Crab,
- Wolf River,
- Yellow Transparent,
- Zestar!
More advice about pollination
Please note that our whilst our system takes many relevant factors into account, it is certainly not completely accurate
Our article on the pollination of fruit trees gives more details of the factors involved in pollination.
Crab apples
It is worth remembering that crab apple trees make excellent pollinators for almost any apple variety. This is because they produce very large quantities of pollen over a long period and are (with some exceptions) only distantly related to mainstream apple varieties so their pollen is highly compatible.
