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Varieties
21 varieties
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Cropping
- Good
Cropping
- Heavy
Gardening skill
- Beginner
Self-fertility
- Partially self-fertile
Self-fertility
- Self-fertile
Category
- Apple trees
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Categories
Apples
21
Early eating apples
2
Mid-season eating apples
7
Late eating apples
5
Cooking apples
6
Dual-purpose apples
1
Red-flesh apples
2
Cherry plums
1
Cherries
4
Sweet cherries
4
Cider apples
3
Crab apples
23
Damsons
6
Mirabelles
1
Mulberries
4
Pears
4
Dessert pears
4
Plums
18
Eating plums
12
Cooking plums
6
Dual-purpose plums
9
Stock availability
All
21
In stock
14
Not in stock
7
Form
1-year
1-year bush-trained
2-year
2
2-year bush-trained
13
Spindlebush
2-year half-standard
Premium half-standard
6
2-year top-worked
2-year (1.75m)
Cordon-trained
Premium cordon
Each
Mature size
Very small
10
Small
Medium
8
Large
13
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M27
10
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M26
8
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MM106
13
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Supplied as
12L pot
13
11.5L pot
10
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
21
Average
10
Experienced
1
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
7
Partially self-fertile
14
Not self-fertile
27
Flowering group
?
1
2
7
3
13
4
1
5
6
Pollinating others
?
Good
4
Average
17
Poor
1
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
20
Mild damp climates
13
Warm climates
3
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
Early
5
Mid
9
Late
7
Very late
Cropping
?
Heavy
12
Good
9
Light
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
1 week
7
2-3 weeks
8
1-2 months
3
3 months or more
3
Food uses
Eating fresh
15
Culinary
8
Traditional cooker
5
Dual purpose
2
Juice
14
Hard cider
2
Drying
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
12
Average
9
Poor
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
Belgium
Canada
1
China
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
20
United States
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1750 - 1799
1800 - 1849
4
1850 - 1899
6
1900 - 1949
4
1950 - 1999
7
2000
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
May
June
December
Blossom colour
White
12
Cream
Pink - light
7
Pink
1
Pink - dark
Red - dark
Crimson
1
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Bronze
Brown
Crimson
1
Gold
Green
3
Green - light
1
Green / Red
Green / Yellow
Orange
Orange / Red
Orange flush
5
Pink
Purple
Purple - light
Red
5
Red - dark
Red / Black
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
3
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
1
Cream
Golden / Yellow
Orange
Pink / Red
1
Dark red
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
13
RHS AGM (former)
RHS AM
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
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Varieties list
Annie Elizabeth
A traditional English cooking apple, with a sweet flavour, which keeps its shape when cooked.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Brownlees Russet
Brownlees Russet is a high quality late-season dessert russet apple.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Egremont Russet
Egremont Russet is the most popular English russet variety, and a good apple tree for the garden.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Fiesta
Fiesta (or Red Pippin) is one of the best Cox-style apples, easy to grow, with a good aromatic flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
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
Grenadier
Grenadier is an early-season cooking apple, and one of the most foolproof apple varieties.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
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
Keswick Codlin
Keswick Codlin is a popular early-season cooking apple, easy to grow, and productive in most climates.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially 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
Peasgood's Nonsuch
Peasgood Nonsuch is a highly-regarded old-fashioned English cooking apple.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially 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 Falstaff
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Red Falstaff is one of the best garden apple trees, heavy crops, easy to grow, and very juicy.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
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
Reverend W. Wilks
A widely-grown and well-regarded English cooking apple.
Picking season: Early
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
Scrumptious
Scrumptious is a modern award-winning early-season English dessert apple.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Spartan
Spartan produces lots of crimson maroon apples, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, delicate "vinous" flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Stirling Castle
A traditional Scottish cooker from the Victorian era, with a good sharp flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Sunset
Sunset is a popular garden alternative to Cox, easier to grow, with a sweet aromatic flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Worcester Pearmain
Worcester Pearmain is a well-known early-season English apple, noted for its strawberry-like flavours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile