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Self-fertile apple varieties
Apple varieties we sell which are reliably self-fertile or partially self-fertile.
33 varieties
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Categories
Almonds
2
Apples
33
Early eating apples
2
Mid-season eating apples
10
Late eating apples
10
Cooking apples
8
Dual-purpose apples
2
Red-flesh apples
2
Apricots
14
Cherry plums
4
Cherries
12
Sweet cherries
11
Sour cherries
1
Cider apples
3
Crab apples
39
Damsons
7
Inter-specific trees
4
Medlars
3
Mirabelles
6
Mulberries
7
Nectarines
3
Peaches
10
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
Juneberries
3
Stock availability
All
33
In stock
18
Not in stock
15
Form
1-year
1-year bush-trained
2-year
2
2-year bush-trained
17
Spindlebush
2-year half-standard
Premium half-standard
8
2-year top-worked
2-year (1.75m)
Cordon-trained
Premium cordon
Each
Mature size
Very small
12
Small
Medium
11
Large
17
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M27
12
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M26
11
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MM106
17
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Supplied as
12L pot
17
11.5L pot
12
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
21
Average
10
Experienced
2
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
10
Partially self-fertile
23
Not self-fertile
68
Flowering group
?
1
2
8
3
17
4
8
5
6
Pollinating others
?
Good
6
Average
24
Poor
2
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
31
Mild damp climates
16
Warm climates
7
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
1
Early
5
Mid
13
Late
12
Very late
2
Cropping
?
Heavy
17
Good
15
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
10
Food uses
Eating fresh
25
Culinary
14
Traditional cooker
7
Dual purpose
3
Juice
19
Hard cider
3
Drying
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
15
Average
15
Poor
2
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
1
Belgium
Canada
1
China
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
1
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
2
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
27
United States
1
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1
1700 - 1749
1750 - 1799
1800 - 1849
5
1850 - 1899
11
1900 - 1949
7
1950 - 1999
9
2000
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
May
June
December
Blossom colour
White
17
Cream
Pink - light
11
Pink
1
Pink - dark
Red - dark
Crimson
1
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Bronze
Brown
Crimson
1
Gold
Green
5
Green - light
2
Green / Red
1
Green / Yellow
1
Orange
Orange / Red
4
Orange flush
7
Pink
Purple
Purple - light
Red
5
Red - dark
Red / Black
Red / Green
1
Red striped
Russet
3
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
1
Cream
Golden / Yellow
Orange
Pink / Red
1
Dark red
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
17
RHS AGM (former)
2
RHS AM
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
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Varieties list
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
Braeburn
Braeburn is one of the best-flavoured supermarket apple varieties.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Brownlees Russet
Brownlees Russet is a high quality late-season dessert russet apple.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
Reverend W. Wilks
A widely-grown and well-regarded English cooking apple.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
Saturn
An attractive modern English apple, crisp flesh and an excellent flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially 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
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
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
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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