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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
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Ashmead's Kernel
A versatile English 17th century russet apple, Ashmead's Kernel is noted for its distinctive pear-like flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Ballerina Samba®
One of the best-flavoured Ballerina minarette-type apple varieties.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Bardsey
A hardy disease-resistant apple, discovered growing on an island off the west coast of Wales.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Beauty of Bath
One of the earliest English apples, ripening in early August.
- Picking season: Very early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Black Dabinett
Black Dabinett is darker-skinned sport of Dabinett, but otherwise very similar to the original.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 6
Blenheim Orange
Blenheim Orange is a classic English dual-purpose apple, useful for dessert and culinary purposes.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Bramley 20
Bramley 20 is a naturally smaller version of Bramley's Seedling (the apples are the same size though).
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Bramley's Seedling
Bramley is the essential English cooking apple, famous for its rich sharp acidity.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Bright Future
An excellent late-season English apple with a very good sweet/sharp flavour and crisp hard flesh.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Brown's Apple
Brown's Apple is a traditional English cider apple variety producing a sharp juice.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 5
Charles Ross
Charles Ross is a very attractive classic English dual-purpose apple.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Christmas Pippin®
Christmas Pippin is a new high-yielding Cox-style apple, discovered as a chance seedling tree.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Claygate Pearmain
Claygate Pearmain is a popular English dessert apple of the Victorian era.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Cornish Aromatic
An attractive late-season apple from Cornwall, with a good aromatic flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Court Pendu Plat
Court Pendu Plant is a traditional French apple with an aromatic pear-drop flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 6
Dabinett
Dabinett is a traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 6
D'Arcy Spice
An old English apple variety, yet with a unique flavour and many unusual qualities.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Devonshire Quarrenden
A very old English summer apple, with a vinous strawberry flavour, grown throughout the UK.
- Picking season: Very early
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Discovery
Discovery is the definitive early-season English apple variety, makes a good fruit tree for the garden.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Egremont Russet
Egremont Russet is the most popular English russet variety, and a good apple tree for the garden.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Honeycrisp
Honeycrisp is an American cold-hardy disease-resistant apple - it shows just how good modern apples have become.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Jupiter
Jupiter is a popular Cox-style apple with a slightly stronger flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Kidd's Orange Red
Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Lady Henniker
A well-regarded Victorian dual-purpose apple, easy to grow.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Lane's Prince Albert
A classic Victorian cooking apple. Plenty of juicy acidity and stores well.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Laxton's Fortune
A quietly popular Edwardian era Cox-style apple, developed by the Laxton Brothers Nursery.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Lord Derby
Lord Derby is a high-quality mid/late-season traditional English cooking apple, cooks to a chunky puree.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Lord Lambourne
Lord Lambourne is a popular versatile garden apple variety, with a good balance of sweet and sharp flavours.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Meridian
Meridian is a little known modern English apple, heavy crops, easy to grow, and excellent flavour.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Michelin
Michelin is a traditional French cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Newton Wonder
A traditional English cooking apple, a good alternative to Bramley.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Peasgood's Nonsuch
Peasgood Nonsuch is a highly-regarded old-fashioned English cooking apple.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Pendragon
Pendragon is a red-fleshed dual-purpose apple from Cornwall.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 6
Pinova
An attractive disease-resistant dessert apple, capable of producing good clean fruit without chemical sprays.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Pitmaston Pine Apple
A small English 18th century apple with a distinctive fruity pineapple-like flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Porter's Perfection
Porter's Perfection is a 19th century English cider variety producing a bittersharp juice.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Rajka
Rajka is a modern disease-resistant heavy-cropping apple variety with a good sweet/sharp flavour.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Red Devil
Red Devil is a good apple variety for the UK garden, and produces a sweet red-tinted juice.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Red Windsor®
Red Windsor is one of the easiest to grow of all dessert apple trees, and with a pleasant apple flavour.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Reverend W. Wilks
A widely-grown and well-regarded English cooking apple.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Rosemary Russet
A classic English russet apple with excellent flavours, but not as well known as its Victorian contemporaries.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
RosetteTM
Probably the best-flavoured of the pink-fleshed apple varieties, and produces lovely pink juice.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Saint Edmund's Russet
Not as well known as other russets, St. Edmund's Russet is nevertheless one of the best.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Santana
Santana is a good quality disease-resistant apple, notable for low levels of allergenic compounds.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Saturn
An attractive modern English apple, crisp flesh and an excellent flavour.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Scrumptious
Scrumptious is a modern award-winning early-season English dessert apple.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Somerset Redstreak
An English cider apple variety producing a very high-quality bittersweet juice.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 5
Stirling Castle
A traditional Scottish cooker from the Victorian era, with a good sharp flavour.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Stoke Red
A traditional English cider apple producing a bittersharp juice.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 6
Tickled Pink
A new red-fleshed apple variety, with attractive crimson blossom, also known as Baya® Marisa.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Tom Putt
An old traditional English cider variety with a sharp juice, which can also be used for cooking.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Topaz
A modern and reliable disease-resistant variety with a sharp flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Tydeman's Late Orange
Tydeman's Late Orange is an excellent late-season Cox-style aromatic apple.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4

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