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Self-fertile apple varieties
Apple varieties we sell which are reliably self-fertile or partially self-fertile.
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Categories
Almonds
2
Apples
32
Early eating apples
2
Mid-season eating apples
10
Late eating apples
10
Cooking apples
8
Dual-purpose apples
2
Apricots
14
Cherry plums
4
Cherries
11
Sweet cherries
11
Sour cherries
1
Cider apples
3
Crab apples
17
Damsons
7
Inter-specific trees
4
Medlars
3
Mirabelles
6
Mulberries
7
Nectarines
3
Peaches
9
Pears
11
Dessert pears
8
Cooking pears
2
Asian pears
2
Plums
29
Eating plums
21
Cooking plums
7
Dual-purpose plums
11
Japanese plums
1
Quinces
2
Walnuts
2
Figs
3
Stock availability
All
32
In stock
32
Not in stock
0
Form
1-year
30
1-year bush-trained
2-year
8
2-year bush-trained
22
Spindlebush
5
2-year half-standard
6
Premium half-standard
8
2-year top-worked
2-year (1.75m)
7
Cordon-trained
6
Espalier
Fan-trained
1
Step-over
Each
Mature size
Very small
8
Small
13
Medium
20
Large
30
Very large
8
N/A
Rootstocks
M27
8
?
M9
14
?
M26
19
?
M116
4
?
MM106
29
?
MM111
3
?
M25
8
?
Supplied as
Bare-root
32
12L pot
18
11.5L pot
8
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
20
Average
10
Experienced
2
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
9
Partially self-fertile
23
Not self-fertile
67
Flowering group
?
1
2
8
3
16
4
8
5
6
Pollinating others
?
Good
6
Average
23
Poor
2
Ploidy
?
Diploid
29
Triploid
Universal pollinator
?
Yes
No
Fruit bearing
?
Spur-bearer
23
Free-spurring
1
Partial tip-bearer
8
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
30
Mild damp climates
15
Warm climates
7
Wildlife
Attractive to birds
RHS Plants for Pollinators
32
Using
Picking month
June
July
August
September
1
October
November
Picking season
?
Very early
1
Early
5
Mid
12
Late
12
Very late
2
Cropping
?
Heavy
17
Good
14
Light
1
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
1
1 week
8
2-3 weeks
9
1-2 months
5
3 months or more
9
Food uses
Eating fresh
24
Culinary
13
Traditional cooker
7
Dual purpose
3
Juice
18
Hard cider
3
Drying
Edible fruits
Flavour style (apples)
Sweet/Sharp
4
Sharper
9
Sweeter
9
Aromatic
9
Vinous
1
Cooking result
Puree
5
Textured puree
1
Keeps shape
5
Juice style
Sweeter
Sharper
1
Sweet (cider)
Sharp (cider)
Bittersweet (cider)
Bittersharp (cider)
Cling-stone
Freestone
Semi-freestone
Clingstone
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
14
Average
15
Poor
2
Scab
?
Very resistant
8
Some resistance
6
Some susceptibility
9
Very susceptible
1
Canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
7
Some susceptibility
9
Very susceptible
Mildew
?
Very resistant
Some resistance
6
Some susceptibility
7
Bacterial canker
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Silverleaf
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Peach leaf curl
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Fruit splitting
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
1
Belgium
Canada
1
Czech Republic
France
1
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
2
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
United Kingdom
26
United States
1
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1
1700 - 1749
1750 - 1799
1800 - 1849
4
1850 - 1899
11
1900 - 1949
7
1950 - 1999
9
2000
Flowering month
March
April
May
Flesh colour
White
1
Cream
Golden / Yellow
Orange
Pink / Red
1
Dark red
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Crimson
1
Gold
Green
3
Green - light
Green / Red
1
Green / Yellow
1
Orange
Orange / Red
4
Orange flush
7
Purple
Purple - light
Red
5
Red - dark
Red / Black
Red / Green
1
Red striped
Russet
2
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Fruit size
Small
Average
Large
1
Very large
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
17
RHS AGM (former)
2
RHS AM
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
Varieties list
Apple trees
Annie Elizabeth
A traditional English cooking apple, with a sweet flavour, which keeps its shape when cooked.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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Braeburn
Braeburn is one of the best-flavoured supermarket apple varieties.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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Devonshire Quarrenden
A very old English summer apple, with a vinous strawberry flavour, grown throughout the UK.
Picking season: Very early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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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
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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
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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
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Gala
Gala is popular supermarket apple - but better when home-grown, with a sweet pleasant flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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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)
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Granny Smith
Granny Smith is the world-famous green apple from Australia, a good choice for warmer apple-growing regions.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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Greensleeves
Greensleeves is a reliable and popular mid-season green/yellow apple, easy to grow and productive.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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Grenadier
Grenadier is an early-season cooking apple, and one of the most foolproof apple varieties.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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Howgate Wonder
Howgate Wonder is a large cooking apple which keeps well. Produces an excellent sharp juice.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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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
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Keswick Codlin
Keswick Codlin is a popular early-season cooking apple, easy to grow, and productive in most climates.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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King of the Pippins
A popular and versatile dual-purpose apple, widely grown in the Victorian era.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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Laxton's Fortune
A quietly popular Edwardian era Cox-style apple, developed by the Laxton Brothers Nursery.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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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
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Lord Lambourne
Lord Lambourne is a popular versatile garden apple variety, with a good balance of sweet and sharp flavours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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Newton Wonder
A traditional English cooking apple, a good alternative to Bramley.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
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Peasgood's Nonsuch
Peasgood Nonsuch is a highly-regarded old-fashioned English cooking apple.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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Queen Cox
A modern self-fertile form of the renowned Cox's Orange Pippin, with arguably even better flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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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
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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
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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
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Reverend W. Wilks
A widely-grown and well-regarded English cooking apple.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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Saint Edmund's Russet
Not as well known as other russets, St. Edmund's Russet is nevertheless one of the best.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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Saturn
An attractive modern English apple, crisp flesh and an excellent flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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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
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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
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Stirling Castle
A traditional Scottish cooker from the Victorian era, with a good sharp flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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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
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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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