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Categories
Apples
18
Early eating apples
3
Mid-season eating apples
3
Late eating apples
7
Cooking apples
2
Red-flesh apples
1
Russet apples
1
Cherries
8
Sweet cherries
8
Cider apples
1
Crab apples
4
Plums
2
Eating plums
2
Dual-purpose plums
2
Stock availability
All
35
Available to pre-order
35
Not in stock
0
Form
1-year
387
1-year bush-trained
5
2-year
217
2-year bush-trained
154
Spindlebush
35
2-year half-standard
82
Premium half-standard
56
2-year top-worked
11
2-year (1.75m)
44
Cordon-trained
28
Premium cordon
20
1/4 standard
2
Each
Mature size
Very small
Small
21
Medium
17
Large
3
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M27
1
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M9
21
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VVA-1
2
?
Gisela 5
9
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M26
4
?
Semi-dwarf
1
?
Gisela 6
1
?
Wavit
1
?
M116
3
?
MM106
1
?
MM111
2
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Bare-root
35
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
18
Average
15
Experienced
2
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
16
Partially self-fertile
4
Not self-fertile
15
Flowering group
?
1
2
9
3
15
4
9
5
1
6
1
Pollinating others
?
Good
10
Average
19
Poor
5
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
13
Free-spurring
1
Partial tip-bearer
5
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
30
Mild damp climates
10
Warm climates
13
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
1
Early
8
Mid
5
Late
17
Very late
3
Cropping
?
Heavy
19
Good
11
Light
1
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
11
1 week
6
2-3 weeks
1
1-2 months
6
3 months or more
6
Food uses
Eating fresh
28
Culinary
7
Traditional cooker
2
Dual purpose
1
Juice
11
Hard cider
4
Drying
Pickling
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
13
Average
9
Poor
4
Canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
4
Some susceptibility
6
Very susceptible
Scab (Apple and Pear)
Very resistant
9
Some resistance
4
Some susceptibility
6
Very susceptible
1
Powdery mildew
Very resistant
1
Some resistance
5
Some susceptibility
6
Fire blight
Very resistant
Some resistance
4
Some susceptibility
6
Very susceptible
Bacterial canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
1
Peach leaf curl
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Woolly aphid
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
Belgium
Canada
3
China
Czech Republic
3
Denmark
France
Germany
2
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
1
New Zealand
2
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
1
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
14
United States
5
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1750 - 1799
1800 - 1849
2
1850 - 1899
3
1900 - 1949
5
1950 - 1999
16
2000
5
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
1
May
June
December
Blossom colour
White
28
Cream
Pink - light
5
Pink
1
Pink - dark
Red - dark
Crimson
Fruit colour
Black
4
Blue - dark
Bronze
Brown
Crimson
1
Gold
Green
2
Green - light
2
Green / Red
2
Green / Yellow
1
Orange
1
Orange / Red
7
Orange flush
2
Pink
Purple
Purple - light
Red
12
Red - dark
4
Red / Black
2
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
1
Varigated
Yellow
1
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
3
Cream
Golden / Yellow
Orange
Pink / Red
2
Dark red
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
17
RHS AGM (former)
1
RHS AM
1
RHS 1st class
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Varieties list
Braeburn
Braeburn is one of the best-flavoured supermarket apple varieties.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Bramley 20
Bramley 20 is a naturally smaller version of Bramley's Seedling (the apples are the same size though).
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Bramley's Seedling
Bramley is the essential English cooking apple, famous for its rich sharp acidity.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Dabinett
Dabinett is a traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Discovery
Discovery is the definitive early-season English apple variety, makes a good fruit tree for the garden.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Early Red Maraly
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Early Red is a modern dark red sweet cherry with a firm flesh.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not 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
Evereste
Evereste is one of the most well-known crab-apples, featuring white blossom and red-yellow fruits.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: 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
Golden Delicious
The flavour of home-grown Golden Delicious is far better than its supermarket reputation.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Golden Gem
A traditional crab-apple featuring a mass of white blossom in spring, followed by yellow crab apples.
Fruit colour: Yellow
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Jonagold
Jonagold is a high quality American apple, with a good balanced sweet/sharp flavor.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Kordia
Kordia is a large late-season true black cherry variety with a good balanced cherry flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Merchant
An early-season black/red cherry with a good flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Nimba
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Nimba is a modern large-fruited red sweet cherry, ripening right at the start of the cherry season.
Picking season: Very early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Opal
Opal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Pacific Red
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Pacific Red is a modern large-fruited red sweet cherry with a firm flesh.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Penny
Penny is a high quality late-season black cherry - ripening in mid-August.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pinova
An attractive disease-resistant dessert apple, capable of producing good clean fruit without chemical sprays.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Professor Sprenger
A well-proportioned crab-apple with profuse white blossom, and golden-orange fruitlets in autumn.
Fruit colour: Orange
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Queen Cox
A modern self-fertile form of the renowned Cox's Orange Pippin, with arguably even better flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: 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 Sentinel
Malus Red Sentinel has classic white blossom and a profusion of tiny scarlet persistent fruits.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Awards: RHS AM
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
Regina
Regina is a new late-season sweet black cherry, with a good flavour and resistance to splitting.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Rosette
TM
Probably the best-flavoured of the pink-fleshed apple varieties, and produces lovely pink juice.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Santana
Santana is a good quality disease-resistant apple, notable for low levels of allergenic compounds.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not 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
Stardust
TM
Stardust is a new mid-season white cherry which is also fully self-fertile.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Sweetheart
Sweetheart is one of the best-flavoured late-season cherries for the UK climate.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Tamara
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Tamara has probably the largest fruit size of any of the cherry varieties we offer.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Topaz
A modern and reliable disease-resistant variety with a sharp flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Victoria
Victoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile