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Varieties
19 varieties
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Picking season
- Mid
Category
- Mid-season eating apples
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Categories
Apples
27
Early eating apples
1
Mid-season eating apples
19
Cooking apples
5
Dual-purpose apples
3
Red-flesh apples
3
Apricots
7
Cherry plums
2
Cherries
10
Sweet cherries
10
Cider apples
2
Crab apples
4
Damsons
2
Inter-specific trees
1
Hazels
9
Mirabelles
2
Mulberries
1
Nectarines
2
Peaches
5
Pears
7
Dessert pears
7
Cooking pears
1
Plums
19
Eating plums
11
Cooking plums
7
Dual-purpose plums
5
Quinces
1
Walnuts
3
Figs
3
Juneberries
1
Stock availability
All
19
In stock
13
Not in stock
6
Form
1-year
1-year bush-trained
2-year
1
2-year bush-trained
12
Spindlebush
2-year half-standard
Premium half-standard
3
2-year top-worked
2-year (1.75m)
Cordon-trained
Premium cordon
Each
Mature size
Very small
8
Small
Medium
5
Large
11
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M27
8
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M26
5
?
MM106
11
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Supplied as
12L pot
12
11.5L pot
8
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
11
Average
6
Experienced
2
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
2
Partially self-fertile
8
Not self-fertile
9
Flowering group
?
1
2
3
3
14
4
2
5
6
Pollinating others
?
Good
2
Average
18
Poor
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
19
Mild damp climates
8
Warm climates
3
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
Early
Mid
19
Late
Very late
Cropping
?
Heavy
6
Good
12
Light
1
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
1 week
3
2-3 weeks
10
1-2 months
5
3 months or more
1
Food uses
Eating fresh
19
Culinary
4
Traditional cooker
Dual purpose
2
Juice
12
Hard cider
2
Drying
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
9
Average
5
Poor
3
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
Belgium
Canada
China
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
1
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
1
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
17
United States
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1750 - 1799
1800 - 1849
2
1850 - 1899
4
1900 - 1949
3
1950 - 1999
7
2000
3
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
May
June
December
Blossom colour
White
12
Cream
Pink - light
5
Pink
Pink - dark
Red - dark
Crimson
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Bronze
Brown
Crimson
Gold
Green
1
Green - light
Green / Red
2
Green / Yellow
2
Orange
1
Orange / Red
4
Orange flush
4
Pink
Purple
Purple - light
Red
3
Red - dark
Red / Black
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
1
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
2
Cream
1
Golden / Yellow
Orange
1
Pink / Red
1
Dark red
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
9
RHS AGM (former)
1
RHS AM
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
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Varieties list
Ballerina Flamenco
®
Flamenco (also known as Obelisk) is a ballerina-style apple tree which grows as columnar minarette.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Bladon Pippin
TM
A new Cox-style apple variety, but with a sweeter flavour - discovered as a chance seedling in the village of Bladon.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Charles Ross
Charles Ross is a very attractive classic English dual-purpose apple.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Cox's Orange Pippin
Cox is widely acknowledged as having the best flavour of any apple variety.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Delbarestivale
An attractive heavy-cropping September apple with a good flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Ellison's Orange
Ellison's Orange is a well respected Cox-style apple which can achieve very good flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Gala
Gala is popular supermarket apple - but better when home-grown, with a sweet pleasant flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Greensleeves
Greensleeves is a reliable and popular mid-season green/yellow apple, easy to grow and productive.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
James Grieve
James Grieve is the classic Scottish dual-purpose apple. It can be eaten fresh, and is also excellent for juicing and cooking.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Laxton's Fortune
A quietly popular Edwardian era Cox-style apple, developed by the Laxton Brothers Nursery.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Limelight
Limelight is an attractive green mid-season dessert apple, ideal for beginners.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Lord Lambourne
Lord Lambourne is a popular versatile garden apple variety, with a good balance of sweet and sharp flavours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Meridian
Meridian is a little known modern English apple, heavy crops, easy to grow, and excellent flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Red Devil
Red Devil is a good apple variety for the UK garden, and produces a sweet red-tinted juice.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Red Windsor
®
Red Windsor is one of the easiest to grow of all dessert apple trees, and with a pleasant apple flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Saint Edmund's Russet
Not as well known as other russets, St. Edmund's Russet is nevertheless one of the best.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Saturn
An attractive modern English apple, crisp flesh and an excellent flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Surprize
TM
An unusual new apple variety with a unique combination of orange skin and pink flesh.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Yellow Ingestrie
One of the prettiest of all apples, perfect for a table display, with a rich fruity flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile