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427 varieties
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Almonds
2
Apples
104
Early eating apples
6
Mid-season eating apples
20
Late eating apples
41
Cooking apples
25
Dual-purpose apples
15
Red-flesh apples
5
Russet apples
7
Apricots
14
Cherry plums
4
Cherries
28
Sweet cherries
26
Sour cherries
1
Cider apples
17
Crab apples
38
Damsons
7
Inter-specific trees
6
Hazels
13
Medlars
3
Mirabelles
6
Mulberries
7
Nectarines
5
Peaches
11
Pears
38
Dessert pears
28
Cooking pears
6
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
41
Sorbus (Rowan) trees
15
Figs
4
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All
427
In stock
348
Not in stock
79
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283
1-year bush-trained
1
2-year
149
2-year bush-trained
128
Spindlebush
13
2-year half-standard
41
Premium half-standard
52
2-year top-worked
7
2-year (1.75m)
40
Cordon-trained
25
Premium cordon
18
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Very small
35
Small
48
Medium
99
Large
288
Very large
87
N/A
Rootstocks
M27
34
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M9
32
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Dwarf
3
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VVA-1
1
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Quince Eline
12
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Gisela 5
15
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M26
46
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Semi-dwarf
2
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Gisela 6
1
?
Wavit
20
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Weiwa
11
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M116
23
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MM106
92
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Colt
11
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Own-roots
1
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Quince A
23
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Semi-vigorous
73
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St. Julien
69
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MM111
9
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Pyrodwarf
23
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M25
37
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Pyrus c. Kirchensaller
20
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Brompton
17
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F12/1
3
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Bare-root
299
12L pot
213
11.5L pot
51
8L-9L pot
1
7L pot
15
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Beginner
182
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177
Experienced
36
Self-fertility
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Self-fertile
141
Partially self-fertile
50
Not self-fertile
163
Flowering group
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1
7
2
60
3
176
4
76
5
13
6
5
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Good
57
Average
223
Poor
42
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
123
Free-spurring
3
Partial tip-bearer
23
Tip-bearer
8
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
334
Mild damp climates
149
Warm climates
121
Using
Picking season
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Very early
6
Early
53
Mid
108
Late
140
Very late
33
Cropping
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Heavy
121
Good
174
Light
31
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
3
1-3 days
82
1 week
65
2-3 weeks
60
1-2 months
49
3 months or more
40
Food uses
Eating fresh
236
Culinary
157
Traditional cooker
18
Dual purpose
54
Juice
58
Hard cider
36
Drying
3
Pickling
1
Edible fruits
2
Not suitable for humans
4
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
170
Average
105
Poor
17
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
30
Very susceptible
6
Powdery mildew
Very resistant
4
Some resistance
23
Some susceptibility
18
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
12
Canada
14
China
8
Croatia
1
Czech Republic
5
Denmark
1
France
28
Germany
11
Hungary
1
Ireland
2
Italy
2
Japan
26
Netherlands
4
New Zealand
6
Norway
1
Russia
2
Slovakia
1
South Africa
1
South Korea
1
Sweden
5
Switzerland
1
Turkey
1
Ukraine
5
United Kingdom
189
United States
38
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
3
1600 - 1649
8
1650 - 1699
4
1700 - 1749
6
1750 - 1799
17
1800 - 1849
40
1850 - 1899
51
1900 - 1949
58
1950 - 1999
103
2000
29
Flowering month
January
1
February
2
March
17
April
43
May
35
June
9
Blossom colour
White
217
Cream
1
Pink - light
53
Pink
14
Pink - dark
24
Red - dark
1
Crimson
6
Fruit colour
Black
11
Blue - dark
15
Brown
1
Crimson
2
Gold
5
Green
15
Green - light
24
Green / Red
8
Green / Yellow
18
Orange
10
Orange / Red
47
Orange flush
31
Pink
5
Purple
11
Purple - light
8
Red
43
Red - dark
32
Red / Black
8
Red / Green
5
Red striped
3
Russet
16
Varigated
1
Yellow
17
Yellow / Orange
9
Yellow / Red
6
White
5
Flesh colour
White
14
Cream
11
Golden / Yellow
28
Orange
1
Pink / Red
6
Dark red
4
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
106
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.
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Awards: RHS AM
Flowering month: April
Adams Pearmain
Adams' Pearmain is a popular Victorian-era English apple with a distinctive 'pearmain' shape.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Admiration
Also known as Malus Adirondack. A dwarf upright crab-apple with masses of light-pink / white flowers.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Amanogawa
A popular columnar flowering cherry, also known as the Flagpole Cherry.
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Awards: RHS AM
Flowering month: May
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
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Aprikyra
®
A sweet self-fertile apricot-cherry cross, also known as an Aprichery or Cherrycot
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Aprimira
®
Aprimira is a sweet self-fertile apricot-mirabelle cross, also known as a miracot.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Aprisali
®
A sweet self-fertile apricot - plum cross, also known as an Aprium.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Aromatnaya
A heavy-cropping Russian quince, for cooking and eating fresh.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Arthur Turner
A mid-season cooking apple, producing a light yellow puree. Very attractive blossom.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Ascendens Rosea
This beautiful flowering cherry has a graceful upright habit and white/pink blossom.
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flowering month: April
Ashmead's Kernel
A versatile English 17th century russet apple, Ashmead's Kernel is noted for its distinctive pear-like flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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.
Fruit colour: Yellow
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Autumnalis Rosea
A Japanese flowering cherry with light pink blossom, can sometimes flower through the whole winter.
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Awards: RHS AM
Flowering month: January
Flowering month: February
Flowering month: March
Flowering month: April
Avalon
Avalon is a large mid-season red/purple plum, similar to Victoria, with a very good flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Ballerina Samba
®
One of the best-flavoured Ballerina minarette-type apple varieties.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Beauty of Bath
One of the earliest English apples, ripening in early August.
Picking season: Very early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Beni-yutaka
Beni-yutaka is a pink blossom tree, which also features attractive red autumnal leaves.
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Beurre Hardy
A classic French pear with a very good flavour, but grows best in a warm sheltered situation.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Beurre Superfin
A traditional French 19th century pear, widely considered one of the best for flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Black Dabinett
Black Dabinett is darker-skinned sport of Dabinett, but otherwise very similar to the original.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 6
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Blaisdon Red
Blaisdon Red is one of the best plum varieties for making plum jam.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Blakeney Red
A popular perry pear, and one of the most reliable croppers. Produces a medium-tannin juice.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Blenheim Orange
Blenheim Orange is a classic English dual-purpose apple, useful for dessert and culinary purposes.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Bloody Ploughman
An old Scottish apple variety, named for the crimson-red colour of its skin and stained flesh.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Blue Tit
Blue Tit is a popular English dual-purpose plum, easy to grow, reliable cropping.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Blue Violet
A traditional Westmorland damson variety - unusually sweet and early-ripening for a damson.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Bonanza
Bonanza is a dwarf self-fertile peach, featuring large yellow flesh peaches. An ideal peach tree for a patio planter.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
Bountiful
Bountiful is an easy-to-grow cooking apple, it retains its shape when cooked, fairly sweet for a cooker.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Braeburn
Braeburn is one of the best-flavoured supermarket apple varieties.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Bramley 20
Bramley 20 is a naturally smaller version of Bramley's Seedling (the apples are the same size though).
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Bramley's Seedling
Bramley is the essential English cooking apple, famous for its rich sharp acidity.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Brandy
A mid-season English perry pear which produces a low-tannin juice.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Bright Future
An excellent late-season English apple with a very good sweet/sharp flavour and crisp hard flesh.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Brown's Apple
Brown's Apple is a traditional English cider apple variety producing a sharp juice.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 5
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Yellow
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Cambridge Gage
Cambridge Gage is a reliable green gage, similar to Old Green Gage, with an excellent flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Cardinal
Also known as Princeton Cardinal, a bronze-leaved crab-apple with pink-red spring blossom and red fruitlets in the autumn.
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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
Catillac
A very old French culinary pear, dating back to the reign of Louis XIV.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Celebration NUVAR
®
Nuvar Celeberation is a large modern dessert pear.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Chanticleer
Chanticleer is an attractive ornamental pear, grown for its spring blossom and autumn leaf colours.
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Flowering month: March
Flowering month: April
Charles Ross
Charles Ross is a very attractive classic English dual-purpose apple.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Chocolate Ice
Named after the copper-brown colour of the young leaves which contrast with the large white flowers.
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flowering month: April
Christie
Christie is a traditional Scottish dessert pear.
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Christmas Pippin
®
Christmas Pippin is a new high-yielding Cox-style apple, discovered as a chance seedling tree.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Clapps Favourite
An attractive red-flushed early-season pear from the USA.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Claygate Pearmain
Claygate Pearmain is a popular English dessert apple of the Victorian era.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Collingwood Ingram
An outstanding small flowering cherry, with deep pink blossom and attractive autumn colour.
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Yellow
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Concorde
A marriage of Conference and Comice - Concorde is easy to grow, heavy crops, excellent flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Conference
Conference is a popular and reliable English pear, well-suited to the UK climate.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Conference Moors Giant
®
Moors Giant is a natural sport of the popular Conference pear - all the same qualities, but with much larger fruit size.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Corabel
A modern French hazel variety, producing large nuts with a sweet flavour.
Core Blimey
TM
Core Blimey is a red Cox-style eating apple, suitable for most areas of the UK.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Cornish Aromatic
An attractive late-season apple from Cornwall, with a good aromatic flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Cornish Gilliflower
Cornish Gilliflower is a popular English eating apple with an excellent sweet aromatic flavour.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Cornishgold
TM
An unusual and ancient juicing and culinary pear discovered in a garden in Cornwall, also known as the Treburrow Pear. Self-fertile and tolerant of difficult climates.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Countess
A dark-red cherry plum, with sweet golden flesh, suitable for eating fresh and cooking.
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 1
Court Pendu Plat
Court Pendu Plant is a traditional French apple with an aromatic pear-drop flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 6
Cox's Orange Pippin
Cox is widely acknowledged as having the best flavour of any apple variety.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Crimson Cascade
A new weeping crab-apple with dusky pink blossom and small dark red fruitlets.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Blossom colour: Crimson
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Dabinett
Dabinett is a traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 6
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
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Delbarestivale
An attractive heavy-cropping September apple with a good flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Devonshire Quarrenden
A very old English summer apple, with a vinous strawberry flavour, grown throughout the UK.
Picking season: Very early
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Discovery
Discovery is the definitive early-season English apple variety, makes a good fruit tree for the garden.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Dittisham Ploughman
Dittisham Ploughman is a traditional dual-purpose plum from southern Devon.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Donald Wyman
Donald Wyman is a classic white-flowered crab-apple, with very small red fruits, which persist into mid-winter.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: White
Doyenne du Comice
Doyenne du Comice is arguably the best flavoured of all pears.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Dunkerton's Late
Dunkerton's Late is a traditional cider variety, producing a light sweet cider.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Eastern Promise
Features feathered leaves, and pink-red fruitlets.
Fruit colour: Pink
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Edda
A good quality and cold-hardy early-season purple plum from Norway.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Eden
®
A new dual-purpose apple which has a naturally non-browning flesh, ideal for salads and fresh apple juice.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Egremont Russet
Egremont Russet is the most popular English russet variety, and a good apple tree for the garden.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Elk River
Elk River features large fragrant pink single flowers followed by small bright green crab-apples.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Green
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Ellison's Orange
Ellison's Orange is a well respected Cox-style apple which can achieve very good flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Excalibur
Excalibur is a red-purple plum, similar to Victoria but with a better flavour for eating fresh.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Farleigh
One of the hardiest damsons, and crops heavily. Farleigh has the distinctive damson flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 1
Fondante d'Automne
An old fashioned French pear with a notably sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Franquette
Franquette is a late-season thin-shelled Walnut.
Picking season: Late
Fugenzo
A traditional double-flowered Japanese flowering cherry, also known as Kofugen.
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flowering month: May
Gala
Gala is popular supermarket apple - but better when home-grown, with a sweet pleasant flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Galloway Pippin
A traditional Scottish cooking apple which keeps its shape when cooked.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Gin
A rare English perry pear variety with good disease resistance and medium acid and tannins.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Glou Morceau
A traditional 18th century Belgian pear with a notably rich sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
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
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Golden Gem
A traditional crab-apple featuring a mass of white blossom in spring, followed by yellow crab apples.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Yellow
Blossom colour: White
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Yellow
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Golden Sphere
Golden Sphere is a large yellow Cherry Plum with a sweet plum-like flavour.
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 1
Gordon Castle
A good dessert plum for northern areas due to its hardiness.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Gorgeous
Malus Gorgeous has pink/white blossom and spherical cherry-like red fruits which are good for jelly.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Gorgeous
Gorgeous is a yellow-fleshed peach, well adapted to the English climate.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
Gorham
A reliable early 20th century American pear, with a sweet creamy flesh.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Granny Smith
Granny Smith is the world-famous green apple from Australia, a good choice for warmer apple-growing regions.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Green Horse
A traditional Gloucestershire perry pear, which produces a low tannin perry.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 5
Greensleeves
Greensleeves is a reliable and popular mid-season green/yellow apple, easy to grow and productive.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Grenadier
Grenadier is an early-season cooking apple, and one of the most foolproof apple varieties.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Guinevere
Guinevere is a modern late-season dessert plum, with a good flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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.
Blossom colour: Cream
Flowering month: April
Flowering month: May
Gypsy
Gypsy is a bright red Cherry Plum with a notably sweet flavour.
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 1
Haganta
Haganta is a new large blue plum variety from Germany, one of the latest-ripening and an excellent flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Blossom colour: White
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: Crimson
Harry Masters Jersey
Harry Masters Jersey is a traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Hauszwetsche German Prune
Hauszwetsche is a damson-like Quetsche or Zwetsche plum, ideal for German-style cakes and desserts.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Herefordshire Russet
Herefordshire Russet is a modern russet apple variety, with an excellent strong Cox-like flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Herman
Herman is one of the best quality early-season plum varieties, blue/purple with yellow flesh.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Hokusai
Hokusai is a traditional Japanese pink blossom cherry tree.
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
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.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Humbug
Humbug is an unusual pear variety, the fruits have distinctive green and yellow stripes.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Ichiyo
An attractive medium-sized Japanese cherry blossom tree, with classic double shell pink flowers.
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: Pink
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
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 5
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.
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Jargonelle
Jargonelle is a sweet early summer pear, and will grow in most situations.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Jefferson
Jefferson is a a large yellow gage / plum, easy to grow, crops well, very juicy and great flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Jelly King
®
A compact crab apple, with unusually large persistent fruits - excellent for crab apple jelly.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
John Downie
John Downie is a traditional crab apple for making crab apple jelly. White blossom and orange-red fruits.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Jonagold
Jonagold is a high quality American apple, with a good balanced sweet/sharp flavor.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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 AGM (former)
Awards: RHS 1st class
Josephine de Malines
A classic 19th century winter pear with a high quality flavour.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Jubilee
Jubilee is a new heavy-cropping dessert plum variety, similar to Victoria but larger and more reliable.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Judge Amphlet
A popular English perry pear variety producing a light, low-tannin juice.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 1
Jumbo
A dual-purpose apple, named for the exceptionally large size of its fruits.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Jupiter
Jupiter is a popular Cox-style apple with a slightly stronger flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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.
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Awards: RHS AM
Flowering month: April
Katinka
®
A very early-season dual-purpose dark-blue plum with an excellent flavour.
Picking season: Very early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Katy
Katy is an attractive and versatile early apple variety from Sweden, very easy to grow.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Kea
Kea is a culinary plum from Cornwall, ideal for plum jam.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Kidd's Orange Red
Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Kiku-shidare-zakura
This is the classic Japanese weeping pink cherry blossom tree (sometimes known as Cheal's Weeping Cherry).
Blossom colour: Pink
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Awards: RHS AM
Flowering month: April
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.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
King's Acre Pippin
A traditional late-season English apple with a robust flavour.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Kingston Black
Kingston Black is one of the premier English cider varieties and produces a bittersharp juice.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Kursar
A small ornamental early-flowing cherry tree, with profuse blossom.
Blossom colour: Pink
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Awards: RHS AM
Flowering month: March
Lady Henniker
A well-regarded Victorian dual-purpose apple, easy to grow.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Lane's Prince Albert
A classic Victorian cooking apple. Plenty of juicy acidity and stores well.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Blossom colour: Crimson
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Laxton's Fortune
A quietly popular Edwardian era Cox-style apple, developed by the Laxton Brothers Nursery.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Laxton's Superb
Laxton's Superb is a deservedly popular English late-season dessert apple from the Victorian era.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Limelight
Limelight is an attractive green mid-season dessert apple, ideal for beginners.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Lindsey Gage
Lindsey Gage is a sweet-flavoured green gage, similar to Cambridge Gage.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Lord Lambourne
Lord Lambourne is a popular versatile garden apple variety, with a good balance of sweet and sharp flavours.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Orange
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Louise Bonne of Jersey
An attractive red-flushed French pear variety with sweet melting flesh.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
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.
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Malling Elizabeth
TM
This new plum variety was released to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's platinum jubilee.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Malus baccata
The Siberian crab-apple, noted for its exceptional cold-hardiness, disease-resistance, attractive blossom and clusters of cherry-like fruitlets in autumn,
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Blossom colour: White
Malus floribunda
Malus floribunda is also known as the Japanese Crab. Pink / white blossom then red / yellow fruits.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Yellow / Red
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Malus hupehensis
A traditional garden crab-apple from China, with white blossom and small red-tinged fruitlets, a good choice as a specimen tree.
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Fruit colour: Green / Red
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Yellow
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Marjorie's Seedling
Marjorie's Seedling is an easy to grow, late-season, heavy cropping purple/black plum.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Mars
Picking season: Mid
Meech's Prolific
A deservedly-popular quince variety from the USA, fragrant fruit and attractive blossom.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Awards: Slow Food - Ark of Taste
Melrose
Melrose is a well-regarded American apple, with a pleasant sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Merchant
An early-season black/red cherry with a good flavour.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Meridian
Meridian is a little known modern English apple, heavy crops, easy to grow, and excellent flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Meritare
An attractive new early-season dessert plum from Sweden, similar to Opal, with large fruits and good cold-hardiness.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
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
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 1
Michelin
Michelin is a traditional French cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Flowering group: 4
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: Mid
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
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Nottingham
A traditional large-fruited English hazel variety.
Nottingham
A popular Medlar, used mainly for cooking.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
NUVAR® Marble
A modern English crab-apple, with large fruits, ideal for early-season crab-apple jelly.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Blossom colour: White
Obelisk
®
A useful dwarf pear tree for small gardens, it grows with a tidy upright habit and is self-fertile.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Old Green Gage
The definitive gage - Old Green Gage is arguably the best-flavoured of any plum variety.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Olympic
Olympic has potentially the largest fruits of any Asian pear variety.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Olympic Flame
An attractive small rowan tree, its orange/red autumn leaf-colours are amongst the best.
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Onward
Onward is high quality dessert pear, related to Doyenne du Comice but easier to grow.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Opal
Opal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Orleans Reinette
Orleans Reinette is a traditional French apple variety, and remains popular for its old-fashioned flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Oullins Golden Gage
The flavour of a true gage yet also easy to grow, Oullins Golden Gage is a good first gage tree.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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.
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flowering month: March
Peasgood's Nonsuch
Peasgood Nonsuch is a highly-regarded old-fashioned English cooking apple.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Pendragon
Pendragon is a red-fleshed dual-purpose apple from Cornwall.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 6
Pendula
A very attractive flowering pear tree, notable for its distinctive weeping branches, and silver-green leaves.
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Flesh colour: White
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Blossom colour: White
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.
Blossom colour: Pink
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Pitmaston Duchess
Pitmaston Duchess is a traditional English dual-purpose, noted for the very large size of its pears.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Pitmaston Pine Apple
A small English 18th century apple with a distinctive fruity pineapple-like flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Pixie
Pixie produces lots of small Cox-style apples, easy to grow and keep well.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Plena
A form of the native English wild cherry, featuring which has double white flowers rather than single flowers.
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flowering month: May
Porter's Perfection
Porter's Perfection is a 19th century English cider variety producing a bittersharp juice.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Portugal
Portugal is perhaps the best-flavoured of all Quinces, but prefers a warm dry climate.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Praecox
A small and hardy winter-flowering cherry, ideal for winter colour and small gardens.
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Flowering month: February
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Blossom colour: Crimson
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 sargentii
Sargent's Cherry is an impressive ornamental cherry, scoring highly for blossom, autumn colour, and its attractive form.
Blossom colour: Pink
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Awards: RHS AM
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
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Awards: RHS AM
Flowering month: April
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
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Awards: RHS AM
Flowering month: April
Purple Pershore
Very similar to Yellow Pershore and with the same excellent culinary qualities.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
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
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Queen of the Realm
TM
A new apple variety, released in 2022 to celebrate the Queen's platinum jubilee.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Queen's Crown
Queen's Crown is a dual-purpose red plum with a good sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Rainbow
®
Rainbow is a very late season apple with a bright white sweet/sharp flesh which does not brown. The apples keep until spring.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Rajka
Rajka is a modern disease-resistant heavy-cropping apple variety with a good sweet/sharp flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Red Devil
Red Devil is a good apple variety for the UK garden, and produces a sweet red-tinted juice.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Red Falstaff
®
Red Falstaff is one of the best garden apple trees, heavy crops, easy to grow, and very juicy.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 5
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: White
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Red Sentinel
Malus Red Sentinel has classic white blossom and a profusion of tiny scarlet persistent fruits.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Reine Claude Doree
A high-quality yellow-green gage, and usually more productive than other green gages.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Reverend W. Wilks
A widely-grown and well-regarded English cooking apple.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Ribston Pippin
A handsome English apple from the 18th century.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Rivers' Early Prolific
Early Prolific is a very heavy-cropping early-season plum, raised by the famous Rivers nursery.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Purple
Blossom colour: Pink - dark
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
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
Rosehip
Malus Rosehip is notable for its large rosehip-shaped red fruits.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Blossom colour: White
Rosemary Russet
A classic English russet apple with excellent flavours, but not as well known as its Victorian contemporaries.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Rosette
TM
Probably the best-flavoured of the pink-fleshed apple varieties, and produces lovely pink juice.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Blossom colour: Red - dark
Ruby
Ruby is a large-fruited modern Cherry Plum, with dark red flesh.
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 1
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.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Sanctus Hubertus
One of the best cropping early-season plums.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Santana
Santana is a good quality disease-resistant apple, notable for low levels of allergenic compounds.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Saturn
An attractive modern English apple, crisp flesh and an excellent flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Saturn
Saturn is a distinctive flat peach also known as a donut peach or Chinese peach.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Scarlett
Malus toringo Scarlett is an ornamental crab apple with bronze leaves, dusky pink blossom, and dark red fruitlets.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Purple
Blossom colour: Pink
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Scotch Bridget
A popular Scottish cooking apple, well-suited to damp wet conditions.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Scotch Dumpling
Scotch Dumpling is a large Scottish cooking apple. Cooks to a frothy puree with a good flavour.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Scrumptious
Scrumptious is a modern award-winning early-season English dessert apple.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Seneca
Seneca is a high-quality late-season large American plum with a notably sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Sensation
A red-coloured sport of the popular Williams pear, with a similar good flavour.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Serbian Gold
Serbian Gold is probably the best quince variety for the UK climate.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Shipova
Shipova is a rare pear / whitebeam hybrid, producing small pear-like edible fruits.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
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.
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flowering month: April
Shizuka - Fragrant Cloud
A Japanese flowering cherry with large fragrant bright white blossom, and strong autumn colours.
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flowering month: May
Shosar
An upright fastigate flowering cherry with pink blossom and good autumn leaf colours.
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flowering month: March
Shropshire Prune
The definitive English damson, Shropshire Prune has the rich astringent flavour typical of damsons.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 5
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.
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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.
Fruit colour: Pink
Fruit colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Spartan
Spartan produces lots of crimson maroon apples, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, delicate "vinous" flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Stirling Castle
A traditional Scottish cooker from the Victorian era, with a good sharp flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Stoke Red
A traditional English cider apple producing a bittersharp juice.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 6
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: Pink - light
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Sunset Boulevard
A large flowering cherry tree with a distinctive columnar form, and large single white flowers.
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Swan
A popular traditional English dual-purpose red / purple plum.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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.
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Awards: RHS AM
Flowering month: April
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
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
The Bride
A small ornamental cherry with large single white flowers.
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flowering month: April
Thorn
An ancient pear variety from Gloucestershire, now used mainly for perry production.
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Three Counties
Three Counties is an early-ripening bittersweet cider apple.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Tickled Pink
A new red-fleshed apple variety, with attractive crimson blossom, also known as Baya® Marisa.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Tom Putt
An old traditional English cider variety with a sharp juice, which can also be used for cooking.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Toptaste Kulinaria
®
A new blue dessert plum with sweet yellow flesh, and good disease resistance.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
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
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 5
Tydeman's Late Orange
Tydeman's Late Orange is an excellent late-season Cox-style aromatic apple.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Victoria
Victoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Violetta
A new heavy-cropping self-fertile dwarf plum from Sweden.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Vranja
A popular traditional Quince variety, well-suited to the southern UK.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Warner's King
An 18th century English cooker which remains popular. Cooks to a sharp-flavoured puree.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Warwickshire Drooper
Warwickshire Drooper is a good quality dual-purpose yellow plum, with heavy crops.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 2
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fruit colour: Russet
Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange
Blossom colour: White
William Crump
A little-known high quality English apple, related to Cox and Worcester Pearmain.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Williams
Williams is a classic English pear, also known as Bartlett, with good flavour and quite easy to grow.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Willingham
A traditional English green gage, with a reputation for excellent flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Winnals Longdon
A traditional Herefordshire perry pear variety, produces a low tannin perry.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Winter Gem
Winter Gem is a late-season apple variety with a very good aromatic flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Winter Nelis
A late-season dessert pear from Belgium, with an excellent sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Worcester Pearmain
Worcester Pearmain is a well-known early-season English apple, noted for its strawberry-like flavours.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Yamadei
A small shrub-like ornamental cherry with clusters of white bell-shaped flowers and orange autumn leaf colours.
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flowering month: March
Yarlington Mill
Yarlington Mill is a traditional English cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice.
Picking season: Very late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 5
Yellow Huffcap
Yellow Huffcap is a well-known English perry pear.
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Yellow Ingestrie
One of the prettiest of all apples, perfect for a table display, with a rich fruity flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Flowering group: 3
Yellow Pershore
Also known as Yellow Egg, Yellow Pershore is a self-fertile heavy cropping culinary plum.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Flowering group: 4
Yoshino
The Somei-Yoshino cherry - a graceful wide-spreading flowering cherry with large white blossom, which is the national flower of Japan.
Blossom colour: White
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flowering month: March