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Varieties
23 varieties
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Category
- Apple trees
Form
- 1-year
Rootstock
- M26
Supplied
- Bare-root
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Categories
Apples
23
Early eating apples
3
Mid-season eating apples
6
Late eating apples
9
Cooking apples
5
Dual-purpose apples
1
Red-flesh apples
3
Russet apples
2
Stock availability
All
23
In stock
23
Not in stock
0
Form
1-year
23
1-year bush-trained
2-year
2-year bush-trained
29
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
23
Large
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M26
23
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M116
1
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MM106
62
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M25
8
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Supplied as
Bare-root
23
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
15
Average
6
Experienced
2
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
6
Partially self-fertile
6
Not self-fertile
11
Flowering group
?
1
2
4
3
15
4
4
5
6
Pollinating others
?
Good
4
Average
16
Poor
3
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
17
Free-spurring
1
Partial tip-bearer
5
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
22
Mild damp climates
9
Warm climates
6
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
Early
3
Mid
7
Late
11
Very late
2
Cropping
?
Heavy
11
Good
11
Light
1
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
1 week
6
2-3 weeks
2
1-2 months
9
3 months or more
6
Food uses
Eating fresh
18
Culinary
7
Traditional cooker
3
Dual purpose
1
Juice
14
Hard cider
3
Drying
Pickling
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
8
Average
10
Poor
3
Canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
4
Some susceptibility
5
Very susceptible
1
Scab (Apple and Pear)
Very resistant
8
Some resistance
2
Some susceptibility
6
Very susceptible
2
Powdery mildew
Very resistant
Some resistance
4
Some susceptibility
4
Fire blight
Very resistant
Some resistance
4
Some susceptibility
5
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
Netherlands
New Zealand
2
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
18
United States
2
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1750 - 1799
1800 - 1849
2
1850 - 1899
4
1900 - 1949
4
1950 - 1999
10
2000
3
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
May
June
Blossom colour
White
12
Cream
Pink - light
6
Pink
2
Pink - dark
Red - dark
Crimson
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Brown
Crimson
1
Gold
Green
2
Green - light
2
Green / Red
2
Green / Yellow
Orange
1
Orange / Red
3
Orange flush
5
Pink
Purple
Purple - light
Red
5
Red - dark
Red / Black
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
2
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
3
Cream
Golden / Yellow
Orange
1
Pink / Red
2
Dark red
Light green / Yellow
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
11
RHS AGM (former)
RHS AM
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
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Varieties list
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
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
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
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
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
Hidden Rose
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Hidden Rose is named for the unexpected pink flesh hidden behind the plain green skin.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 2
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
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
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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 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
Worcester Pearmain
Worcester Pearmain is a well-known early-season English apple, noted for its strawberry-like flavours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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