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Varieties
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Categories
Apples
8
Early eating apples
1
Mid-season eating apples
2
Late eating apples
3
Cooking apples
2
Cherries
3
Sweet cherries
5
Stock availability
All
13
In stock
13
Not in stock
0
Form
1-year
293
1-year bush-trained
1
2-year
157
2-year bush-trained
129
Spindlebush
13
2-year half-standard
41
Premium half-standard
52
2-year top-worked
7
2-year (1.75m)
40
Cordon-trained
25
Premium cordon
18
1/4 standard
1
Each
Mature size
Very small
Small
7
Medium
6
Large
1
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M9
7
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Gisela 5
4
?
Gisela 6
1
?
M116
2
?
Supplied as
Bare-root
13
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
5
Average
7
Experienced
1
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
6
Partially self-fertile
2
Not self-fertile
5
Flowering group
?
1
2
4
3
6
4
3
5
6
Pollinating others
?
Good
2
Average
9
Poor
2
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
5
Free-spurring
Partial tip-bearer
3
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
13
Mild damp climates
3
Warm climates
9
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
1
Early
3
Mid
2
Late
6
Very late
1
Cropping
?
Heavy
9
Good
4
Light
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
5
1 week
3
2-3 weeks
1-2 months
1
3 months or more
4
Food uses
Eating fresh
11
Culinary
2
Traditional cooker
2
Dual purpose
Juice
5
Hard cider
2
Drying
Pickling
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
2
Average
7
Poor
1
Canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
3
Very susceptible
Scab (Apple and Pear)
Very resistant
4
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
3
Very susceptible
1
Powdery mildew
Very resistant
Some resistance
3
Some susceptibility
2
Fire blight
Very resistant
Some resistance
3
Some susceptibility
2
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
2
China
Croatia
Czech Republic
1
Denmark
France
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
2
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
5
United States
3
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1750 - 1799
1800 - 1849
1
1850 - 1899
1900 - 1949
2
1950 - 1999
7
2000
3
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
May
June
December
Blossom colour
White
9
Cream
Pink - light
2
Pink
1
Pink - dark
Red - dark
Crimson
Fruit colour
Black
1
Blue - dark
Bronze
Brown
Crimson
1
Gold
Green
1
Green - light
1
Green / Red
2
Green / Yellow
Orange
Orange / Red
2
Orange flush
Pink
Purple
Purple - light
Red
7
Red - dark
3
Red / Black
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
2
Cream
Golden / Yellow
Orange
Pink / Red
Dark red
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
6
RHS AGM (former)
RHS AM
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
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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
Early Red Maraly
®
Early Red is a modern dark red sweet cherry with a firm flesh.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not 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
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
Nimba
®
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
Pacific Red
®
Pacific Red is a modern large-fruited red sweet cherry with a firm flesh.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Red Falstaff
®
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
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
Sweetheart
Sweetheart is one of the best-flavoured late-season cherries for the UK climate.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile