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Categories
Apples
20
Early eating apples
4
Mid-season eating apples
3
Late eating apples
11
Cooking apples
2
Dual-purpose apples
2
Russet apples
3
Pears
8
Dessert pears
8
Stock availability
All
28
Available to pre-order
28
Not in stock
0
Form
1-year
387
1-year bush-trained
2
2-year
189
2-year bush-trained
142
Spindlebush
35
2-year half-standard
82
Premium half-standard
53
2-year top-worked
8
2-year (1.75m)
44
Cordon-trained
28
Premium cordon
20
1/4 standard
1
Each
Mature size
Very small
Small
23
Medium
8
Large
2
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M9
20
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Quince Eline
8
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Quince A
3
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Supplied as
Bare-root
28
12L pot
20
Growing
Gardening skill
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Beginner
18
Average
8
Experienced
2
Self-fertility
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Self-fertile
6
Partially self-fertile
6
Not self-fertile
16
Flowering group
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1
2
5
3
16
4
7
5
6
Pollinating others
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Good
5
Average
19
Poor
4
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
21
Free-spurring
1
Partial tip-bearer
6
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
27
Mild damp climates
8
Warm climates
6
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
Early
6
Mid
7
Late
14
Very late
1
Cropping
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Heavy
15
Good
11
Light
2
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
1 week
11
2-3 weeks
4
1-2 months
8
3 months or more
5
Food uses
Eating fresh
26
Culinary
5
Traditional cooker
1
Dual purpose
1
Juice
10
Hard cider
3
Drying
Pickling
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Problems
Disease resistance
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Good
8
Average
14
Poor
2
Canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
5
Some susceptibility
2
Very susceptible
2
Scab (Apple and Pear)
Very resistant
5
Some resistance
8
Some susceptibility
9
Very susceptible
1
Powdery mildew
Very resistant
1
Some resistance
4
Some susceptibility
5
Fire blight
Very resistant
Some resistance
3
Some susceptibility
6
Very susceptible
2
Bacterial canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Peach leaf curl
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Woolly aphid
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
1
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
Belgium
Canada
China
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
3
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
1
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
1
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
23
United States
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1
1750 - 1799
2
1800 - 1849
2
1850 - 1899
5
1900 - 1949
5
1950 - 1999
9
2000
4
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
May
June
December
Blossom colour
White
14
Cream
Pink - light
7
Pink
Pink - dark
Red - dark
Crimson
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Bronze
Brown
Crimson
Gold
Green
1
Green - light
5
Green / Red
1
Green / Yellow
Orange
Orange / Red
2
Orange flush
8
Pink
Purple
Purple - light
Red
5
Red - dark
Red / Black
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
4
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
2
Cream
2
Golden / Yellow
Orange
Pink / Red
1
Dark red
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
15
RHS AGM (former)
3
RHS AM
RHS 1st class
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Varieties list
Ashmead's Kernel
A versatile English 17th century russet apple, Ashmead's Kernel is noted for its distinctive pear-like flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Beth
An easy and reliable early-season pear, with a very good melting flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Beurre Hardy
A classic French pear with a very good flavour, but grows best in a warm sheltered situation.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Bountiful
Bountiful is an easy-to-grow cooking apple, it retains its shape when cooked, fairly sweet for a cooker.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Christmas Pippin
®
Christmas Pippin is a new high-yielding Cox-style apple, discovered as a chance seedling tree.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Concorde
A marriage of Conference and Comice - Concorde is easy to grow, heavy crops, excellent flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Conference
Conference is a popular and reliable English pear, well-suited to the UK climate.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: 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
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
Doyenne du Comice
Doyenne du Comice is arguably the best flavoured of all pears.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
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
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
Herefordshire Russet
Herefordshire Russet is a modern russet apple variety, with an excellent strong Cox-like flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not 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
Katy
Katy is an attractive and versatile early apple variety from Sweden, very easy to grow.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Laxton's Superb
Laxton's Superb is a deservedly popular English late-season dessert apple from the Victorian era.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Little Pax
TM
A new English apple variety, recently discovered on the Isle of Wight - but its appearance and flavour hark back to the Victorian era.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Louise Bonne of Jersey
An attractive red-flushed French pear variety with sweet melting flesh.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Onward
Onward is high quality dessert pear, related to Doyenne du Comice but easier to grow.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
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
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
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
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
Williams
Williams is a classic English pear, also known as Bartlett, with good flavour and quite easy to grow.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Winter Gem
Winter Gem is a late-season apple variety with a very good aromatic flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile