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Varieties
32 varieties
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Categories
Apples
32
Early eating apples
4
Mid-season eating apples
8
Late eating apples
17
Cooking apples
2
Dual-purpose apples
4
Red-flesh apples
3
Russet apples
3
Stock availability
All
32
In stock
32
Not in stock
0
Form
1-year
1
1-year bush-trained
2-year
2-year bush-trained
31
Spindlebush
7
2-year half-standard
Premium half-standard
2-year top-worked
2-year (1.75m)
Cordon-trained
20
Premium cordon
15
1/4 standard
Each
Mature size
Very small
Small
32
Medium
Large
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M27
35
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M9
32
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Dwarf
3
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Quince Eline
12
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Gisela 5
15
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M26
46
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Semi-dwarf
2
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Gisela 6
1
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Wavit
22
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Weiwa
11
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M116
23
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MM106
92
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Colt
11
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Own-roots
1
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Quince A
23
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Semi-vigorous
75
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St. Julien
71
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MM111
9
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Pyrodwarf
23
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M25
37
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Pyrus c. Kirchensaller
20
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Brompton
17
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F12/1
7
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Supplied as
Bare-root
32
12L pot
15
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
19
Average
11
Experienced
2
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
6
Partially self-fertile
8
Not self-fertile
18
Flowering group
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1
2
5
3
19
4
8
5
6
Pollinating others
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Good
6
Average
23
Poor
2
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
25
Free-spurring
1
Partial tip-bearer
6
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
32
Mild damp climates
10
Warm climates
6
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
Early
4
Mid
9
Late
18
Very late
1
Cropping
?
Heavy
15
Good
15
Light
2
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
1 week
8
2-3 weeks
5
1-2 months
11
3 months or more
8
Food uses
Eating fresh
30
Culinary
8
Traditional cooker
1
Dual purpose
2
Juice
18
Hard cider
3
Drying
1
Pickling
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
13
Average
13
Poor
2
Canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
5
Some susceptibility
5
Very susceptible
1
Scab (Apple and Pear)
Very resistant
6
Some resistance
6
Some susceptibility
10
Very susceptible
2
Powdery mildew
Very resistant
Some resistance
6
Some susceptibility
5
Fire blight
Very resistant
Some resistance
5
Some susceptibility
6
Very susceptible
Bacterial canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
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
Denmark
France
Germany
1
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
3
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
1
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
23
United States
2
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1
1750 - 1799
1800 - 1849
1
1850 - 1899
5
1900 - 1949
6
1950 - 1999
12
2000
7
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
May
June
December
Blossom colour
White
17
Cream
Pink - light
10
Pink
Pink - dark
1
Red - dark
Crimson
1
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Bronze
Brown
Crimson
1
Gold
Green
2
Green - light
1
Green / Red
1
Green / Yellow
2
Orange
1
Orange / Red
5
Orange flush
7
Pink
Purple
Purple - light
Red
5
Red - dark
Red / Black
Red / Green
2
Red striped
Russet
3
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
3
Cream
1
Golden / Yellow
Orange
1
Pink / Red
3
Dark red
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
13
RHS AGM (former)
1
RHS AM
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
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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
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
Core Blimey
TM
Core Blimey is a red Cox-style eating apple, suitable for most areas of the UK.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not 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
Eden
®
A new dual-purpose apple which has a naturally non-browning flesh, ideal for salads and fresh apple juice.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
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
Ellison's Orange
Ellison's Orange is a well respected Cox-style apple which can achieve very good flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
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
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)
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
Honeycrisp
Honeycrisp is an American cold-hardy disease-resistant apple - it shows just how good modern apples have become.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
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
Kidd's Orange Red
Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
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
Limelight
Limelight is an attractive green mid-season dessert apple, ideal for beginners.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not 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
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
®
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
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
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
Surprize
TM
An unusual new apple variety with a unique combination of orange skin and pink flesh.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Tickled Pink
A new red-fleshed apple variety, with attractive crimson blossom, also known as Baya® Marisa.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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