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Varieties
445 varieties
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Categories
Almonds
2
Apples
104
Early eating apples
7
Mid-season eating apples
19
Late eating apples
40
Cooking apples
25
Dual-purpose apples
14
Red-flesh apples
5
Apricots
14
Cherry plums
4
Cherries
28
Sweet cherries
26
Sour cherries
1
Cider apples
17
Crab apples
43
Damsons
7
Inter-specific trees
6
Hazels
13
Medlars
3
Mirabelles
6
Mulberries
7
Nectarines
5
Peaches
10
Pears
37
Dessert pears
28
Cooking pears
8
Ornamental pears
3
Asian pears
4
Perry pears
9
Plums
48
Eating plums
34
Cooking plums
12
Dual-purpose plums
18
Japanese plums
2
Quinces
8
Walnuts
7
Ornamental cherry trees
46
Sorbus (Rowan) trees
22
Figs
4
Juneberries
3
Stock availability
All
445
In stock
330
Not in stock
115
Form
1-year
266
1-year bush-trained
1
2-year
135
2-year bush-trained
131
Spindlebush
16
2-year half-standard
53
Premium half-standard
49
2-year top-worked
7
2-year (1.75m)
16
Cordon-trained
20
Premium cordon
18
1/4 standard
Each
Mature size
Very small
34
Small
43
Medium
97
Large
290
Very large
60
N/A
Rootstocks
M27
33
?
Very dwarf
1
?
M9
29
?
Dwarf
2
?
VVA-1
10
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Quince Eline
11
?
Gisela 5
13
?
M26
45
?
Semi-dwarf
2
?
Gisela 6
1
?
Wavit
1
?
Weiwa
11
?
M116
19
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MM106
93
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Colt
11
?
Own-roots
1
?
Quince A
22
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Semi-vigorous
65
?
St. Julien
70
?
MM111
14
?
Pyrodwarf
22
?
M25
29
?
Pyrus c. Kirchensaller
5
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Brompton
17
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Supplied as
Bare-root
284
12L pot
208
11.5L pot
50
8L-9L pot
2
7L pot
13
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
193
Average
181
Experienced
36
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
139
Partially self-fertile
51
Not self-fertile
163
Flowering group
?
1
7
2
59
3
171
4
75
5
14
6
5
Pollinating others
?
Good
59
Average
218
Poor
44
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
122
Free-spurring
3
Partial tip-bearer
23
Tip-bearer
8
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
343
Mild damp climates
157
Warm climates
124
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
6
Early
56
Mid
107
Late
143
Very late
32
Cropping
?
Heavy
121
Good
174
Light
32
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
3
1-3 days
81
1 week
65
2-3 weeks
59
1-2 months
49
3 months or more
39
Food uses
Eating fresh
238
Culinary
158
Traditional cooker
18
Dual purpose
54
Juice
58
Hard cider
36
Drying
3
Edible fruits
5
Not suitable for humans
6
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
177
Average
104
Poor
18
Canker
Very resistant
6
Some resistance
24
Some susceptibility
15
Very susceptible
4
Scab (Apple and Pear)
Very resistant
33
Some resistance
42
Some susceptibility
31
Very susceptible
6
Powdery mildew
Very resistant
5
Some resistance
23
Some susceptibility
19
Fire blight
Very resistant
2
Some resistance
14
Some susceptibility
23
Very susceptible
7
Bacterial canker
Very resistant
1
Some resistance
5
Some susceptibility
3
Peach leaf curl
Some resistance
3
Some susceptibility
8
Very susceptible
2
Woolly aphid
Some resistance
1
Some susceptibility
2
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
4
Belgium
13
Canada
17
China
12
Czech Republic
5
Denmark
1
France
29
Germany
11
Hungary
1
Ireland
2
Italy
2
Japan
27
Netherlands
4
New Zealand
6
Norway
1
Russia
2
Slovakia
1
South Africa
1
South Korea
1
Sweden
5
Switzerland
2
Turkey
1
Ukraine
5
United Kingdom
188
United States
39
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
3
1600 - 1649
8
1650 - 1699
4
1700 - 1749
6
1750 - 1799
16
1800 - 1849
40
1850 - 1899
53
1900 - 1949
63
1950 - 1999
106
2000
28
Flowering month
January
2
February
3
March
16
April
50
May
43
June
12
December
1
Blossom colour
White
230
Cream
1
Pink - light
56
Pink
14
Pink - dark
24
Red - dark
1
Crimson
6
Fruit colour
Black
12
Blue - dark
18
Bronze
1
Brown
2
Crimson
2
Gold
6
Green
15
Green - light
24
Green / Red
8
Green / Yellow
17
Orange
11
Orange / Red
48
Orange flush
30
Pink
5
Purple
12
Purple - light
8
Red
44
Red - dark
32
Red / Black
8
Red / Green
5
Red striped
2
Russet
16
Varigated
1
Yellow
17
Yellow / Orange
11
Yellow / Red
6
White
6
Flesh colour
White
14
Cream
10
Golden / Yellow
27
Orange
1
Pink / Red
6
Dark red
4
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
109
RHS AGM (former)
31
RHS AM
11
RHS 1st class
2
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
2
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Varieties list
Accolade
An impressive spreading ornamental cherry tree, with light pink double-flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Flowering month: April
Awards: RHS AM
Adams Pearmain
Adams' Pearmain is a popular Victorian-era English apple with a distinctive 'pearmain' shape.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Admiration
Also known as Malus Adirondack. A dwarf upright crab-apple with masses of light-pink / white flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Amanogawa
A popular columnar flowering cherry, also known as the Flagpole Cherry.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Flowering month: May
Awards: RHS AM
Amber Heart
The most popular traditional English white cherry, widely known as Kent Bigarreau.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Amsden June
An early-ripening white-fleshed freestone peach from the USA, ready in June / July in the UK.
Picking season: Very early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flesh colour: White
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
Aprikyra
®
A sweet self-fertile apricot-cherry cross, also known as an Aprichery or Cherrycot
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Aprimira
®
Aprimira is a sweet self-fertile apricot-mirabelle cross, also known as a miracot.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Aprisali
®
A sweet self-fertile apricot - plum cross, also known as an Aprium.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Aromatnaya
A heavy-cropping Russian quince, for cooking and eating fresh.
Aros
®
A small slow-growing upright crab-apple, with bronze-green leaves, beautiful dark pink flowers with white centres, and maroon fruits in the autumn.
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Arthur Turner
A mid-season cooking apple, producing a light yellow puree. Very attractive blossom.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Ascendens Rosea
This beautiful flowering cherry has a graceful upright habit and white/pink blossom.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Flowering month: April
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
Athos
®
A natural dwarf sweet cherry tree, unlikely to get much bigger than 2m.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Autumn Spire
®
Autumn Spire (Flanrock) is a columnar rowan with yellow fruitlets and excellent autumn colour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Yellow
Autumnalis Rosea
A Japanese flowering cherry with light pink blossom, can sometimes flower through the whole winter.
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Flowering month: January
Flowering month: February
Flowering month: March
Flowering month: April
Awards: RHS AM
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Avalon
Avalon is a large mid-season red/purple plum, similar to Victoria, with a very good flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Avalon Pride
A disease-resistant yellow-fleshed peach, well-suited to growing outdoors in the UK.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
Aylesbury Prune
A traditional English damson, which used to be grown in the Vale of Aylesbury.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Ballerina Flamenco
®
Flamenco (also known as Obelisk) is a ballerina-style apple tree which grows as columnar minarette.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Ballerina Samba
®
One of the best-flavoured Ballerina minarette-type apple varieties.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Barbara
Malus Barbara has dark pink blossom and small purple fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Purple
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Bardsey
A hardy disease-resistant apple, discovered growing on an island off the west coast of Wales.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Beauty of Bath
One of the earliest English apples, ripening in early August.
Picking season: Very early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Belle de Louvain
Belle de Louvain is a large purple culinary plum, useful because it can be grown on north-facing walls.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Bellegarde
A well-regarded late-season traditional yellow-flesh peach.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
Benita Rafzas
®
Benita Rafzas is an unusual cross between an Asian and European pear.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Beni-yutaka
Beni-yutaka is a pink blossom tree, which also features attractive red autumnal leaves.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Flowering month: April
Bereczki
Bereczki is a traditional eastern European quince variety, ideal for jams and jellies.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Bergeron
Bergeron is the classic French apricot variety, and a common sight in French summer markets.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Bergeval
®
A modern apricot with pretty orange fruits and a rich sweet flavour.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Beth
An easy and reliable early-season pear, with a very good melting flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Beurre Hardy
A classic French pear with a very good flavour, but grows best in a warm sheltered situation.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Beurre Superfin
A traditional French 19th century pear, widely considered one of the best for flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Black Dabinett
Black Dabinett is darker-skinned sport of Dabinett, but otherwise very similar to the original.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Black Oliver
A traditional English black cherry from the West Midlands.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Black Worcester
The oldest true English pear, 16th century or earlier. Ideal for stewed pears.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Bladon Pippin
TM
A new Cox-style apple variety, but with a sweeter flavour - discovered as a chance seedling in the village of Bladon.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Blaisdon Red
Blaisdon Red is one of the best plum varieties for making plum jam.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Blakeney Red
A popular perry pear, and one of the most reliable croppers. Produces a medium-tannin juice.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Blenheim Orange
Blenheim Orange is a classic English dual-purpose apple, useful for dessert and culinary purposes.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Bloody Ploughman
An old Scottish apple variety, named for the crimson-red colour of its skin and stained flesh.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Blue Tit
Blue Tit is a popular English dual-purpose plum, easy to grow, reliable cropping.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Blue Violet
A traditional Westmorland damson variety - unusually sweet and early-ripening for a damson.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: 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
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
Brandy
A mid-season English perry pear which produces a low-tannin juice.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Bright Future
An excellent late-season English apple with a very good sweet/sharp flavour and crisp hard flesh.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Broadview
Broadview is the best Walnut variety for the UK climate.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Brown Turkey
Brown Turkey is the most popular fig for the UK climate.
Brownlees Russet
Brownlees Russet is a high quality late-season dessert russet apple.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Brown's Apple
Brown's Apple is a traditional English cider apple variety producing a sharp juice.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Buccaneer
Another good Walnut variety for the UK climate.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Burcombe
A dark red / black cherry from the Tamar valley.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Butler
Butler is a relatively new hazel variety, with heavy crops of large hazel nuts.
Butterball
Malus Butterball is named for its bright yellow fruits, which are also good for crab apple jelly.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Yellow
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Cambridge Gage
Cambridge Gage is a reliable green gage, similar to Old Green Gage, with an excellent flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Cardinal
Also known as Princeton Cardinal, a bronze-leaved crab-apple with pink-red spring blossom and red fruitlets in the autumn.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Carman
An unusual mulberry, with large sweet white fruits. Carman starts fruiting at a much younger age than other mulberries.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Catherine
An unusual winter-flowering cherry, which also has superb autumn leaf colours.
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: January
Flowering month: February
Flowering month: December
Catillac
A very old French culinary pear, dating back to the reign of Louis XIV.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Celebration NUVAR
®
Nuvar Celeberation is a large modern dessert pear.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Celeste
Celeste is a compact dark red/black cherry, one of the best early-season varieties, with a sweet mild flavour.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Champion
A large American quince which does well in the drier parts of the UK.
Chanticleer
Chanticleer is an attractive ornamental pear, grown for its spring blossom and autumn leaf colours.
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: March
Flowering month: April
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Charles Ross
Charles Ross is a very attractive classic English dual-purpose apple.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Chinese Lace
A neat attractive Rowan with bright green leaves and dusky pink berries.
Fruit colour: Red
Chivers Delight
Chivers Delight is an under-rated Cox-style apple from Cambridgeshire. Crisp and sweet.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Chocolate Ice
Named after the copper-brown colour of the young leaves which contrast with the large white flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: April
Christie
Christie is a traditional Scottish dessert pear.
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
Cinderella
®
A naturally dwarf bushy-crab-apple. White blossom followed by tiny golden spherical fruitlets, and yellow autumn leaf colours.
Fruit colour: Gold
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Clapps Favourite
An attractive red-flushed early-season pear from the USA.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Claygate Pearmain
Claygate Pearmain is a popular English dessert apple of the Victorian era.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Coe's Golden Drop
Coe's Golden Drop is a large oval gage from the 18th century, noted for its excellent flavour.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Collingwood Ingram
An outstanding small flowering cherry, with deep pink blossom and attractive autumn colour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Flowering month: March
Colney
Colney is a large modern late-season English dessert cherry, dark red/black, with a good flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Common Rowan
The Rowan or Mountain Ash, native to most parts of the UK. The leaves turn golden red in autumn, accompanied by clusters of red berries. One of the largest species of Sorbus.
Fruit colour: Red
Compacta
®
Featured on BBC Gardeners' World, this is one of the best apricot trees for growing in a small space.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Comtesse de Paris
Comtesse de Paris can be considered as an improved Golden Hornet. It features the same white blossom and persistent yellow fruitlets, but grows with a better form.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Yellow
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Concorde
A marriage of Conference and Comice - Concorde is easy to grow, heavy crops, excellent flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Conference
Conference is a popular and reliable English pear, well-suited to the UK climate.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Conference Moors Giant
®
Moors Giant is a natural sport of the popular Conference pear - all the same qualities, but with much larger fruit size.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Corabel
A modern French hazel variety, producing large nuts with a sweet flavour.
Coralburst
®
Malus Coralburst is a naturally compact crab-apple with a superb blossom display and small persistent yellow-orange fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Bronze
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Self-fertility: 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
Cornish Aromatic
An attractive late-season apple from Cornwall, with a good aromatic flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Cornish Gilliflower
Cornish Gilliflower is a popular English eating apple with an excellent sweet aromatic flavour.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Cosford
Cosford is a popular Filbert, with a flavour allegedly superior to other Hazel nuts.
Coul Blush
Coul Blush is an early-season dual-purpose apple from Scotland.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Countess
A dark-red cherry plum, with sweet golden flesh, suitable for eating fresh and cooking.
Flowering group: 1
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Court Pendu Plat
Court Pendu Plant is a traditional French apple with an aromatic pear-drop flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 6
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
Crimson Cascade
A new weeping crab-apple with dusky pink blossom and small dark red fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Blossom colour: Crimson
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Crimson Pointe
TM
A purple-leaved flowering plum tree, which grows with an upright compact form.
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: March
Crispin
Crispin (also known as Mutsu) is a high quality apple from Japan, with a good flavour, and also sharp enough for cooking.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Croft Coral
Croft Coral is a small rowan tree but the fruits are an orange coral colour rather than the usual red,
Fruit colour: Orange
Czar
Czar is a traditional culinary plum, one of the easiest plums trees, will even fruit on north-facing walls.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Dabinett
Dabinett is a traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Daikoku
Daikoku is one of the less well-known Japanese blossom trees, but features pretty pink - white blossom.
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Flowering month: April
Flowering month: May
Dalmatie
A large green-fruited fig with pretty foliage.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
D'Arcy Spice
An old English apple variety, yet with a unique flavour and many unusual qualities.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Delbarestivale
An attractive heavy-cropping September apple with a good flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Denniston's Superb
Denniston's Superb is a gage-like green plum, raised in New York in the 19th century.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
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
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
Dittisham Ploughman
Dittisham Ploughman is a traditional dual-purpose plum from southern Devon.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Donald Wyman
Donald Wyman is a classic white-flowered crab-apple, with very small red fruits, which persist into mid-winter.
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Doyenne du Comice
Doyenne du Comice is arguably the best flavoured of all pears.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Dunkerton's Late
Dunkerton's Late is a traditional cider variety, producing a light sweet cider.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Early Moorpark
A traditional English apricot from the 19th century.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Early Red Maraly
®
Early Red is a modern dark red sweet cherry with a firm flesh.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Early Transparent Gage
One of the easier gages to grow, Early Transparent has attractive semi-translucent fruit.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Eastern Promise
Features feathered leaves, and pink-red fruitlets.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Pink
Edda
A good quality and cold-hardy early-season purple plum from Norway.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
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
Elk River
Elk River features large fragrant pink single flowers followed by small bright green crab-apples.
Fruit colour: Green
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Self-fertility: 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
Ennis
Ennis has become one the top commercial hazel varieties, very high yields, and a good flavour.
Evereste
Evereste is one of the most well-known crab-apples, featuring white blossom and red-yellow fruits.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Excalibur
Excalibur is a red-purple plum, similar to Victoria but with a better flavour for eating fresh.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Farleigh
One of the hardiest damsons, and crops heavily. Farleigh has the distinctive damson flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Felicita
®
A modern self-fertile dark-red cherry, notable for its very large cherries.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fernette
A modern French Walnut variety with high-quality nuts.
Picking season: Late
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
Fimbriata
Malus Fimbriata is notable for its double-flowered blossom, very unusual in a crab-apple.
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flanders Giant
One of the largest-fruited medlars, with attractive blossom and autumnal colours.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flavor King
Flavor King is a pluot (Japanese plum / apricot cross) with large sweet fruit.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 1
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Fondante d'Automne
An old fashioned French pear with a notably sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Franquette
Franquette is a late-season thin-shelled Walnut.
Picking season: Late
Fugenzo
A traditional double-flowered Japanese flowering cherry, also known as Kofugen.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Flowering month: May
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
Galloway Pippin
A traditional Scottish cooking apple which keeps its shape when cooked.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Awards: RHS 1st class
Garden Beauty
Garden Beauty is a slow-growing dwarf nectarine variety, ideal for pot culture.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
Garden Lady
Garden Lady is a slow-growing dwarf peach variety, ideal for pot culture.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
Gibbsii
Gibbsii grows with a neat spreading columnar form, sprinkled with clusters of bright red fruits in the autumn.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red
Gin
A rare English perry pear variety with good disease resistance and medium acid and tannins.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Glou Morceau
A traditional 18th century Belgian pear with a notably rich sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Goldcot
One of the most reliable apricots for the UK climate, with good winter hardiness.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: 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)
Golden Gem
A traditional crab-apple featuring a mass of white blossom in spring, followed by yellow crab apples.
Fruit colour: Yellow
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Golden Glow
A modern English apricot, found growing as a chance seedling near Worcester.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Golden Hornet
Malus Golden Hornet is a traditional white blossom crab apple, with persistent yellow fruits.
Fruit colour: Yellow
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Golden Sphere
Golden Sphere is a large yellow Cherry Plum with a sweet plum-like flavour.
Flowering group: 1
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Gordon Castle
A good dessert plum for northern areas due to its hardiness.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Gorgeous
Gorgeous is a yellow-fleshed peach, well adapted to the English climate.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
Gorgeous
Malus Gorgeous has pink/white blossom and spherical cherry-like red fruits which are good for jelly.
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Gorham
A reliable early 20th century American pear, with a sweet creamy flesh.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
Green Horse
A traditional Gloucestershire perry pear, which produces a low tannin perry.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not 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
Guinevere
Guinevere is a modern late-season dessert plum, with a good flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Gunslebert
Gunslebert is a modern hazel variety, an excellent choice for the garden or small orchard.
Gyoiko
Gyoiko is a pleasing Japanese flowering cherry tree, featuring unusual cream-coloured blossom.
Flowering month: April
Flowering month: May
Blossom colour: Cream
Gypsy
Gypsy is a bright red Cherry Plum with a notably sweet flavour.
Flowering group: 1
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Haganta
Haganta is a new large blue plum variety from Germany, one of the latest-ripening and an excellent flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Hale's Early
Hale's Early is an early-season American peach variety, but with a good track record of being productive in the UK climate.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
Halloween
TM
Malus Halloween is named for its ribbed orange-yellow crab-apples, which resemble little pumpkins.
Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Hall's Giant
Hall's Giant is noted for its excellent flavour and is a good pollinator for other hazels.
Hally Jolivette
This graceful flowering cherry is notable for its long-lived white blossom.
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: April
Harry Baker
Malus Harry Baker is a popular crab-apple with deep pink flowers and dark red fruits which are very good for crab-apple jelly.
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: Crimson
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Harry Masters Jersey
Harry Masters Jersey is a traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Hauszwetsche German Prune
Hauszwetsche is a damson-like Quetsche or Zwetsche plum, ideal for German-style cakes and desserts.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Helena du Roussillon
®
A traditional French apricot variety, grown in the Languedoc-Roussillon area.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Hendre Huffcap
A well-known English perry pear variety, and a reliable cropper. Makes a light, low-tannin perry.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not 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
Herman
Herman is one of the best quality early-season plum varieties, blue/purple with yellow flesh.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Hertford
A large dark red English cherry with a good flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Hidden Rose
®
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
Hokusai
Hokusai is a traditional Japanese pink blossom cherry tree.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Flowering month: April
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
Horinji
A small upright flowering cherry tree with large pink-tinted white blossom.
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: April
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
Humbug
Humbug is an unusual pear variety, the fruits have distinctive green and yellow stripes.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Ichiyo
An attractive medium-sized Japanese cherry blossom tree, with classic double shell pink flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Flowering month: April
Illinois Everbearing
An American hybrid mulberry, producing long black fruits from an early age.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Indian Magic
An excellent all-round crab apple, with attractive bronze leaves, dusky pink blossom, and small persistent red fruits.
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: Pink
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Ingrid
Ingrid is the best Almond variety for the UK climate, suitable for the warmer and drier areas of the UK.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Invincible
Invincible is a high quality pear which can also cope with difficult conditions.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Irish Peach
Irish Peach is a popular early season apple, ripening in July / August. It is easy to grow and low maintenance.
Picking season: Very early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Isaac Newton's Tree
Also known as Flower of Kent, this is the variety the famous scientist Sir Isaac Newton sat under.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Isfahan
A sweet-flavoured quince from Iran, that can be eaten fresh as well as used for cooking.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Jacqueline
Prunus Jacqueline is a new flowering cherry, featuring stunning pink blossom and superb autumn colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Flowering month: April
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
Jargonelle
Jargonelle is a sweet early summer pear, and will grow in most situations.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Jefferson
Jefferson is a a large yellow gage / plum, easy to grow, crops well, very juicy and great flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Jelly King
®
A compact crab apple, with unusually large persistent fruits - excellent for crab apple jelly.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
John Bond
An unusual species of Sorbus, the leaves are particularly attractive for their white undersides.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Brown
John Downie
John Downie is a traditional crab apple for making crab apple jelly. White blossom and orange-red fruits.
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Jonagold
Jonagold is a high quality American apple, with a good balanced sweet/sharp flavor.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Jordan
A precocious red-fruited fig.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Joseph Rock
A small rowan, with distinctive pale yellow fruitlets. Also one of the best for autumn colour.
Fruit colour: Yellow
Awards: RHS 1st class
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Josephine de Malines
A classic 19th century winter pear with a high quality flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Jubilee
Jubilee is a new heavy-cropping dessert plum variety, similar to Victoria but larger and more reliable.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Judge Amphlet
A popular English perry pear variety producing a light, low-tannin juice.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 1
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Jumbo
A dual-purpose apple, named for the exceptionally large size of its fruits.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Jupiter
Jupiter is a popular Cox-style apple with a slightly stronger flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Jupiter
A reliable walnut from Czechia, usually crops well in the UK.
Picking season: Late
Kanzan
Kanzan (or Kwanzan) is one of the most popular Japanese flowering cherries, well-suited to the UK climate.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Flowering month: April
Awards: RHS AM
Katinka
®
A very early-season dual-purpose dark-blue plum with an excellent flavour.
Picking season: Very early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: 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
Kea
Kea is a culinary plum from Cornwall, ideal for plum jam.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Kentish Cob
The traditional English cob-nut, still grown commercially in Kent.
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
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
Kiku-shidare-zakura
This is the classic Japanese weeping pink cherry blossom tree (sometimes known as Cheal's Weeping Cherry).
Blossom colour: Pink
Flowering month: April
Awards: RHS AM
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
King James 1st
A traditional English mulberry from the 17th century, also known as Chelsea.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
King of the Damsons
A traditional 19th century English damson from Nottinghamshire. Also widely-known as Bradley's King.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: 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
King's Acre Pippin
A traditional late-season English apple with a robust flavour.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Kingston Black
Kingston Black is one of the premier English cider varieties and produces a bittersharp juice.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Kioto
®
One of the easier apricots for UK growers, attractive orange fruits blushed red. The blossom has some frost resistance.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Kirke's Blue
An old-fashioned blue plum with a rich sweet flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Knight's Early Black
A traditional English early-season black cherry
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Kordia
Kordia is a large late-season true black cherry variety with a good balanced cherry flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Kumoi
One of the most popular Asian pears, with a firm flesh and sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Kursar
A small ornamental early-flowing cherry tree, with profuse blossom.
Blossom colour: Pink
Flowering month: March
Awards: RHS AM
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Lady Henniker
A well-regarded Victorian dual-purpose apple, easy to grow.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Lane's Prince Albert
A classic Victorian cooking apple. Plenty of juicy acidity and stores well.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Lange Tidling Zeller
Lange Tidling Zeller is one of the new heavy cropping German hazel varieties.
Lapins
Perhaps the best all-round sweet cherry for the UK. Easy to grow, with heavy crops of good-flavoured cherries.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Lara
®
An early-ripening French Walnut variety producing large nuts.
Laura
Malus Laura is a very upright dwarf crab-apple, with bronze leaves, crimson blossom and maroon fruitlets.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: Crimson
Self-fertility: 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
Le Thoureil
A good example of the Bird Cherry, with semi-double flowers, ideal for smaller gardens.
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: April
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
Lindsey Gage
Lindsey Gage is a sweet-flavoured green gage, similar to Cambridge Gage.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially 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
Little Pink Perfection
Little Pink Perfection is a dwarf form of Pink Perfection, ideal for patio containers and small spaces.
Blossom colour: Pink
Flowering month: April
Flowering month: May
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
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
Lord Napier
Lord Napier is the best white-fleshed nectarine for the UK climate.
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Louisa
Malus Louisa is a pretty weeping crab apple with light pink blossom and small yellow fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Orange
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Louise Bonne of Jersey
An attractive red-flushed French pear variety with sweet melting flesh.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Lutescens
An excellent garden tree, very hardy, easy to grow, and tolerant of a wide range of soils and conditions. Grey-green leaves turn russet in autumn, with orange berries.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Malling Elizabeth
TM
This new plum variety was released to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's platinum jubilee.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Malus baccata
The Siberian crab-apple, noted for its exceptional cold-hardiness, disease-resistance, attractive blossom and clusters of cherry-like fruitlets in autumn,
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Malus floribunda
Malus floribunda is also known as the Japanese Crab. Pink / white blossom then red / yellow fruits.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Yellow / Red
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Malus hupehensis
A traditional garden crab-apple from China, with white blossom and small red-tinged fruitlets, a good choice as a specimen tree.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Green / Red
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Malus sylvestris
Malus sylvestris is the common wild crab apple, easy to grow and ideal for native planting schemes.
Malus transitoria
Malus transitoria is known as the Cut-leaf crab-apple, and features a mass of small white flowers, and clusters of tiny yellow fruitlets.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Yellow
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Marjorie's Seedling
Marjorie's Seedling is an easy to grow, late-season, heavy cropping purple/black plum.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Mars
Picking season: Mid
Matthew Ridley
An upright-growing Mountain Ash with dense white flowers and clusters of orange-red autumn berries.
Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Meech's Prolific
A deservedly-popular quince variety from the USA, fragrant fruit and attractive blossom.
Awards: Slow Food - Ark of Taste
Melrose
Melrose is a well-regarded American apple, with a pleasant sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Merchant
An early-season black/red cherry with a good flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Meridian
Meridian is a little known modern English apple, heavy crops, easy to grow, and excellent flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Meritare
An attractive new early-season dessert plum from Sweden, similar to Opal, with large fruits and good cold-hardiness.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Merryweather
Merryweather is a very popular damson, with unusually large fruit, one of the hardiest of fruit trees.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Merton Glory
A well-known mid-season English white cherry.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Merton Pride
One of the best English pears, with a notably juicy buttery flesh.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Mesembrine
®
Mesembrine is a sweet-flavoured flat nectarine with yellow flesh.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
Methley
Methley is a Japanese plum (Prunus salicina), as opposed to the more usual European plums (Prunus domestica).
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 1
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Michelin
Michelin is a traditional French cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Mikinori
Mikinori is a classic early-flowering Fuji cherry tree, with red autumn leaf colours.
Blossom colour: White
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Flowering month: March
Mirabelle de Nancy
Mirabelle de Nancy is the definitive traditional French Mirabelle, originating from north-east France.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Mojo Berry
®
A new dwarf mulberry tree with edible fruits which reaches a maximum height of around 1.5m.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Moonglow
A high quality early season dessert and culinary pear, very resistant to fireblight.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Morello
Morello is a traditional late-season acid or sour-cherry, ideal for cooking with, and can be grown in north-facing situations.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Morgan Sweet
Morgan Sweet is a traditional English cider variety producing a full sweet juice.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Morus Pendula
A weeping fruiting mulberry.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Napoleon Bigarreau
A traditional white cherry, with an excellent flavour and appearance.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Nectarella
Nectarella is a genetic dwarf nectarine, ideal for growing in a pot.
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)
Nimba
®
Nimba is a modern large-fruited red sweet cherry, ripening right at the start of the cherry season.
Picking season: Very early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Norfolk Royal Russet
Norfolk Royal Russet is a glorious golden-russet apple which tastes as good as it looks.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Northline
A popular Saskatoon or Juneberry, very heavy-cropping, and sweet-flavoured.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Nottingham
A popular Medlar, used mainly for cooking.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Nottingham
A traditional large-fruited English hazel variety.
NUVAR® Marble
A modern English crab-apple, with large fruits, ideal for early-season crab-apple jelly.
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Obelisk
®
A useful dwarf pear tree for small gardens, it grows with a tidy upright habit and is self-fertile.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Old Green Gage
The definitive gage - Old Green Gage is arguably the best-flavoured of any plum variety.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Olympic
Olympic has potentially the largest fruits of any Asian pear variety.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Olympic Flame
An attractive small rowan tree, its orange/red autumn leaf-colours are amongst the best.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Onward
Onward is high quality dessert pear, related to Doyenne du Comice but easier to grow.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Opal
Opal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Orleans Reinette
Orleans Reinette is a traditional French apple variety, and remains popular for its old-fashioned flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Oullins Golden Gage
The flavour of a true gage yet also easy to grow, Oullins Golden Gage is a good first gage tree.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Pacific Red
®
Pacific Red is a modern large-fruited red sweet cherry with a firm flesh.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Packham's Triumph
Perhaps the best known Australian pear, producing large quantities of small but sweet-flavoured pears.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pakistan Giant Fruit
A high quality mulberry from Islamabad, with very large fruits.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Panache
An attractive striped fig, ripening in early August.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Pandora
An excellent small flowering cherry, with pale pink blossom, and interesting leaf colour in both spring and autumn.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Flowering month: March
Pearls
A small spreading rowan tree, named for its clusters of pearl-white berries.
Fruit colour: White
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
Pendragon
Pendragon is a red-fleshed dual-purpose apple from Cornwall.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pendula
A very attractive flowering pear tree, notable for its distinctive weeping branches, and silver-green leaves.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: April
Penny
Penny is a high quality late-season black cherry - ripening in mid-August.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Peregrine
Peregrine is the best flavoured white-flesh peach for the UK climate.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flesh colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Pineapple
Despite the name, Pineapple is actually a yellow-fleshed nectarine, ripening in early September.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
Pink Charm
A small rowan with a spreading habit, large feathered leaves, and bright pink berries.
Fruit colour: Pink
Pink Glow
Malus Dolgo, also known as Pink Glow, offers early-season white flowers and very attractive dark pink fruits. It is exceptionally cold-hardy.
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Pink Marry
A new red-flushed apricot which ripens in early July.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Pink Pearl
A small upright rowan tree with clusters of pink-flecked white fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Pink
Fruit colour: White
Pink Perfection
The definitive pink blossom tree, offers a long-lasting display of pink double flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: Pink
Flowering month: April
Flowering month: May
Pinova
An attractive disease-resistant dessert apple, capable of producing good clean fruit without chemical sprays.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pitmaston Duchess
Pitmaston Duchess is a traditional English dual-purpose, noted for the very large size of its pears.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Pitmaston Pine Apple
A small English 18th century apple with a distinctive fruity pineapple-like flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pixie
Pixie produces lots of small Cox-style apples, easy to grow and keep well.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Plena
A form of the native English wild cherry, featuring which has double white flowers rather than single flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: May
Porter's Perfection
Porter's Perfection is a 19th century English cider variety producing a bittersharp juice.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Portugal
Portugal is perhaps the best-flavoured of all Quinces, but prefers a warm dry climate.
Praecox
A small and hardy winter-flowering cherry, ideal for winter colour and small gardens.
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: February
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Prairie Fire
®
Malus Prairie Fire is a medium-size upright crab-apple tree, notable for its dark pink flowers.
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Prince William
Prince William is a modern bittersweet cider variety from the famous Long Ashton Research Station.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Professor Sprenger
A well-proportioned crab-apple with profuse white blossom, and golden-orange fruitlets in autumn.
Fruit colour: Orange
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Profusion
Malus Profusion (also known as Directeur Moerlands) is a classic crab apple variety, with dense clusters of deep pink blossom followed by small crimson berry-like fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Blossom colour: Crimson
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Prunus litigiosa
A columnar flowering cherry, often called the Tassel Cherry because of unusual shape of its white flowers.
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: April
Prunus lusitanica
The Portuguese Laurel is a dense small evergreen flowering cherry tree.
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: June
Prunus rufa
This is the Himalayan cherry, notable for its attractive exfoliating bark, and hairy young shoots.
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Flowering month: April
Prunus sargentii
Sargent's Cherry is an impressive ornamental cherry, scoring highly for blossom, autumn colour, and its attractive form.
Blossom colour: Pink
Flowering month: April
Awards: RHS AM
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Prunus sargentii
Sargent's Cherry is an impressive ornamental cherry, scoring highly for blossom, autumn colour, and its attractive form.
Blossom colour: Pink
Flowering month: April
Awards: RHS AM
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Prunus serrula
A popular flowering cherry tree species, The Tibetan cherry or Birch Bark cherry is well-known for its attractive bark.
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: April
Awards: RHS AM
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Purple Pershore
Very similar to Yellow Pershore and with the same excellent culinary qualities.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
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
Queen of the Realm
TM
A new apple variety, released in 2022 to celebrate the Queen's platinum jubilee.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Queen's Crown
Queen's Crown is a dual-purpose red plum with a good sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Rajka
Rajka is a modern disease-resistant heavy-cropping apple variety with a good sweet/sharp flavour.
Picking season: Mid
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 Filbert
Red Filbert produces dark purple-shelled hazel nuts.
Red Foxwhelp
Red Foxwhelp also known as Herefordshire Redstreak, is an old English cider apple variety which produces a dull red bittersweet juice.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Red Obelisk
Malus Red Obelisk is a compact upright crab-apple with white flowers, purple / green leaves, and red fruits - a good choice for making crab-apple jelly.
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: White
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Red Sentinel
Malus Red Sentinel has classic white blossom and a profusion of tiny scarlet persistent fruits.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Awards: RHS AM
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
Redhaven
Red Haven is a yellow-fleshed peach, popular because it has some resistance to peach-leaf curl.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
Reeves
A high-quality English dual-purpose plum, similar to Victoria but with an improved flavour for eating fresh.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Regina
Regina is a new late-season sweet black cherry, with a good flavour and resistance to splitting.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Reine Claude de Bavay
The most widely-grown green gage, Reine Claude de Bavay has the distinctive gage-like flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Reine Claude Doree
A high-quality yellow-green gage, and usually more productive than other green gages.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Reine Claude Violette
A traditional French gage first recorded in the 18th century, noted for its excellent flavour. Also known as Purple Gage.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Reverend W. Wilks
A widely-grown and well-regarded English cooking apple.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Ribston Pippin
A handsome English apple from the 18th century.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Rivers' Early Prolific
Early Prolific is a very heavy-cropping early-season plum, raised by the famous Rivers nursery.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Robada
Robada is a large-fruited apricot. The orange fruits are usually flushed with red, and will ripen in the middle / late July in the UK.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Roberts Red
Roberts Red or Roberts Crab is an unusual red-fleshed crab-apple, with dark pink blossom, and purple fruits. Useful for cooking and produces a claret red colour juice.
Fruit colour: Purple
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Robijn
Robijn is a modern almond variety, suitable for planting in drier areas of northern Europe.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Rochester
An excellent yellow-fleshed peach, well-suited to the UK climate.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Rosehip
Malus Rosehip is notable for its large rosehip-shaped red fruits.
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Rosemary Russet
A classic English russet apple with excellent flavours, but not as well known as its Victorian contemporaries.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not 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
Royal
A compact-growing Medlar, useful for smaller gardens.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Royalty
Malus Royalty has bright purple-red blossom, dark green-bronze leaves, and dark red fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Blossom colour: Red - dark
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Rubinette
Considered by many to be the best-tasting apple ever, Rubinette has a perfect sweet / sharp flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Ruby
Ruby is a large-fruited modern Cherry Plum, with dark red flesh.
Flowering group: 1
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Rudolph
Malus Rudoph features very large single deep pink flowers, and small orange fruits.
Fruit colour: Orange
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Blossom colour: Pink
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
Sanctus Hubertus
One of the best cropping early-season plums.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Santa Claus
As the name suggests, Santa Claus is a late ripening dessert pear which keeps until Christmas.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Santana
Santana is a good quality disease-resistant apple, notable for low levels of allergenic compounds.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Saturn
Saturn is a distinctive flat peach also known as a donut peach or Chinese peach.
Self-fertility: 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
Scarlett
Malus toringo Scarlett is an ornamental crab apple with bronze leaves, dusky pink blossom, and dark red fruitlets.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Purple
Blossom colour: Pink
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Scotch Bridget
A popular Scottish cooking apple, well-suited to damp wet conditions.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Scotch Dumpling
Scotch Dumpling is a large Scottish cooking apple. Cooks to a frothy puree with a good flavour.
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
Seneca
Seneca is a high-quality late-season large American plum with a notably sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Sensation
A red-coloured sport of the popular Williams pear, with a similar good flavour.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Serbian Gold
Serbian Gold is probably the best quince variety for the UK climate.
Shepherds Bullace
A large-fruited bullace, used for cooking and preserves, similar to a damson.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Shinseiki
This popular Asian pear variety is well suited to the UK climate, and produces crisp sweet-flavoured pears.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Shipova
Shipova is a rare pear / whitebeam hybrid, producing small pear-like edible fruits.
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Shirofugen
Shirofugen is a traditional Japanese flowering cherry with large double-white flowers.
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: May
Shirotae
Prunus Shirotae features large single or semi-double fragrant white flowers, and is perhaps the most beautiful of the white-flowered Japanese cherries.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: April
Shizuka - Fragrant Cloud
A Japanese flowering cherry with large fragrant bright white blossom, and strong autumn colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: May
Shogetsu - Blushing Bride
One of the loveliest of the white-blossom Japanese flowering cherries.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: May
Shosar
An upright fastigate flowering cherry with pink blossom and good autumn leaf colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Flowering month: March
Shropshire Prune
The definitive English damson, Shropshire Prune has the rich astringent flavour typical of damsons.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Awards: Slow Food - Ark of Taste
Silver Sails
An attractive upright flowering pear tree with silvery green foliage, and small ornamental fruits.
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: March
Skeena
®
One of the best of the Canadian late-season cherries.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Smoky
Smoky is generally considered to be the sweetest-flavoured Saskatoon or Juneberry.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Snow Goose
A small upright flowering cherry tree with particularly large single white flowers.
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: April
Somerset Redstreak
An English cider apple variety producing a very high-quality bittersweet juice.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Sorbus discolor
Sorbus discolor features yellow berries which take on pink hues as they mature.
Sorbus hupehensis
A classic rowan tree with pink berries and good autumn leaf colours.
Fruit colour: Pink
Sorbus japonica
An upright rowan with large oval leaves and attractive autumn colours and large red fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Red
Sorbus sargentiana
A broad spreading rowan with bright orange fruitlets and autumn foliage.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Sorbus scalaris
One of the more spreading smaller Rowan species, with orange/red autumn leaf colours, and clusters of small orange fruilets.
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Sorbus vilmorinii
The main feature of this Rowan trees is the pink fruitlets, which turn white as autumn progresses. It is one of the smaller Sorbus species, but also one of the more spreading.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Pink
Fruit colour: White
Sorbus wardii
A little-known Whitebeam from the Himalayas, featuring large silver-green leaves and yellow-orange berries.
Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
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
Spring Glow
Spring Glow is a stunning sight in early spring, with its large deep pink single flowers, followed by dark purple foliage.
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Flowering month: March
Stardust
TM
Stardust is a new mid-season white cherry which is also fully self-fertile.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Stella
If you only want to grow one cherry tree, choose Stella - self-fertile, easy to grow, and a good pollinator.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Stella's Star
A modern green-gage, more productive and easier to grow in the UK than the traditional ones.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: 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
Stoke Red
A traditional English cider apple producing a bittersharp juice.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Summer Sun
Summer Sun is productive mid-season cherry, and should ripen even if the summer weather is less than perfect.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Sun Rival
Malus Sun Rival is a popular weeping crab-apple, with pale pink blossom and small red berry-like fruitlets.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Sunburst
Sunburst is a large red mid-season cherry with a good sweet mild flavour, and notably easy to pick.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: 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
Sunset Boulevard
A large flowering cherry tree with a distinctive columnar form, and large single white flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: April
Sunshine
A small rowan tree with an upright form and golden yellow clusters of fruits, and strong autumn colours.
Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
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
Swan
A popular traditional English dual-purpose red / purple plum.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Sweetheart
Sweetheart is one of the best-flavoured late-season cherries for the UK climate.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Sylvia
Sylvia produces large dark red sweet cherries, ripening in the middle of the cherry season. It is a naturally small tree and grows with a columnar form, useful if space is limited.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Tai-haku
A traditional Japanese flowering cherry, known as the "Great White Cherry" and notable for its very large single white flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: April
Awards: RHS AM
Tamara
®
Tamara has probably the largest fruit size of any of the cherry varieties we offer.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Thames Cross
An attractive yellow mid-season plum with a good flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
The Bride
A small ornamental cherry with large single white flowers.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: April
Thiessen
A large-fruited early-ripening Saskatoon or Juneberry.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Thorn
An ancient pear variety from Gloucestershire, now used mainly for perry production.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Three Counties
Three Counties is an early-ripening bittersweet cider apple.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
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
Tom Putt
An old traditional English cider variety with a sharp juice, which can also be used for cooking.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Tomcot
Tomcot is a modern apricot variety with large fruits, suitable for planting in warm dry areas of the UK.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Tonda di Giffoni
A modern large hazel variety from Italy.
Tonda Gentile Trilobata
A traditional Italian hazel nut, usually used in cooking and confectionery.
Topaz
A modern and reliable disease-resistant variety with a sharp flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Toptaste Kulinaria
®
A new blue dessert plum with sweet yellow flesh, and good disease resistance.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Trailblazer
An ornamental plum with white blossom and purple leaves, usually also produces dark red cherry-plums fruits, which can be eaten or cooked.
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: March
Tremlett's Bitter
Tremlett's Bitter is a traditional English cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Tydeman's Late Orange
Tydeman's Late Orange is an excellent late-season Cox-style aromatic apple.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Victoria
Victoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Violetta
A new heavy-cropping self-fertile dwarf plum from Sweden.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Vranja
A popular traditional Quince variety, well-suited to the southern UK.
Warner's King
An 18th century English cooker which remains popular. Cooks to a sharp-flavoured puree.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Warwickshire Drooper
Warwickshire Drooper is a good quality dual-purpose yellow plum, with heavy crops.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Waterloo
Waterloo is a traditional English sweet cherry with a red / black skin.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Webb's Prize Cob
A mid-season English hazelnut.
Wedding Bouquet
Malus Wedding Bouquet features ivory-white blossom and tiny red berry-like fruitlets.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Wellington
A large-fruited Mulberry tree.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
White Star
A modern English crab-apple with white star-like flowers followed by attractive russeted fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Russet
Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
William Crump
A little-known high quality English apple, related to Cox and Worcester Pearmain.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Williams
Williams is a classic English pear, also known as Bartlett, with good flavour and quite easy to grow.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Willingham
A traditional English green gage, with a reputation for excellent flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Winnals Longdon
A traditional Herefordshire perry pear variety, produces a low tannin perry.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
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
Winter Nelis
A late-season dessert pear from Belgium, with an excellent sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
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
Yamadei
A small shrub-like ornamental cherry with clusters of white bell-shaped flowers and orange autumn leaf colours.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: March
Yarlington Mill
Yarlington Mill is a traditional English cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Yellow Huffcap
Yellow Huffcap is a well-known English perry pear.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Yellow Ingestrie
One of the prettiest of all apples, perfect for a table display, with a rich fruity flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Yellow Pershore
Also known as Yellow Egg, Yellow Pershore is a self-fertile heavy cropping culinary plum.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Yoshino
The Somei-Yoshino cherry - a graceful wide-spreading flowering cherry with large white blossom, which is the national flower of Japan.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blossom colour: White
Flowering month: March