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Varieties
17 varieties
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Category
- Apple trees
Form
- 1-year
Rootstock
- M26
Supplied
- Bare-root
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Categories
Apples
17
Early eating apples
2
Mid-season eating apples
5
Late eating apples
7
Cooking apples
3
Red-flesh apples
2
Russet apples
1
Stock availability
All
17
In stock
17
Not in stock
0
Form
1-year
17
1-year bush-trained
2-year
2-year bush-trained
32
Spindlebush
2-year half-standard
Premium half-standard
2-year top-worked
2-year (1.75m)
Cordon-trained
Premium cordon
1/4 standard
Each
Mature size
Very small
Small
Medium
17
Large
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M26
17
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M116
1
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MM106
57
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Supplied as
Bare-root
17
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
11
Average
4
Experienced
2
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
5
Partially self-fertile
3
Not self-fertile
9
Flowering group
?
1
2
1
3
13
4
3
5
6
Pollinating others
?
Good
2
Average
13
Poor
2
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
13
Free-spurring
Partial tip-bearer
4
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
17
Mild damp climates
8
Warm climates
5
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
Early
2
Mid
5
Late
10
Very late
Cropping
?
Heavy
9
Good
8
Light
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
1 week
4
2-3 weeks
2
1-2 months
6
3 months or more
5
Food uses
Eating fresh
14
Culinary
4
Traditional cooker
3
Dual purpose
Juice
12
Hard cider
2
Drying
Pickling
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Toxic to humans
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
7
Average
6
Poor
2
Canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
3
Some susceptibility
4
Very susceptible
1
Scab (Apple and Pear)
Very resistant
7
Some resistance
2
Some susceptibility
3
Very susceptible
2
Powdery mildew
Very resistant
Some resistance
4
Some susceptibility
3
Fire blight
Very resistant
Some resistance
4
Some susceptibility
2
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
1
China
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Kazakhstan
Korea
Netherlands
New Zealand
1
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
14
United States
1
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1750 - 1799
1800 - 1849
2
1850 - 1899
1
1900 - 1949
4
1950 - 1999
7
2000
3
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
December
Blossom colour
White
9
Cream
Pink - light
5
Pink
1
Pink - dark
Red - dark
Crimson
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Brown
Crimson
1
Gold
Green
1
Green - light
1
Green / Red
2
Green / Yellow
Orange
1
Orange / Red
2
Orange flush
4
Pink
Purple
Purple - light
Red
4
Red - dark
Red / Black
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
1
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
3
Cream
Golden / Yellow
Orange
1
Pink / Red
1
Dark red
Light green / Yellow
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
8
RHS AGM (former)
RHS AM
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
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Varieties list
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 most popular English cooking apple, famous for its rich sharp acidity. Easy to grow and heavy cropping.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Christmas Pippin
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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
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
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
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
Lord Derby
Lord Derby is a high-quality mid/late-season traditional English cooking apple, cooks to a chunky puree.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
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
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