Lady Henniker apple trees
£34.95Lady Henniker apple trees for sale
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BR11-year bare-root tree,M25 rootstock£34.95
Very large tree
(4m-7m after 10 years)
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All about Lady Henniker apple trees
Lady Henniker is a traditional Victorian apple variety - heavy-cropping, reliable, and easy to grow.
Although primarily used as a cooker - it cooks down to a sweet-sharp puree - it is also a good apple for eating fresh if you like a sharper flavour.
Growing and Training
Lady Henniker is a fairly vigorous variety, and produces an attractive large tree when grafted on a vigorous rootstock. Although it is a regular cropper, cropping can be light in the first few years as the tree grows.
Disease resistance is good.
Which pollinators are recommended for Lady Henniker apple trees?
Lady Henniker is not self-fertile and is also a poor pollinator of other varieties. Ideally you need two other different but compatible varieties planted nearby in order to produce fruit, or one compatible self-fertile variety.
The following varieties are good pollinators for Lady Henniker.
If you are not sure about pollination requirements just ask us.
BraeburnBraeburn is one of the best-flavoured supermarket apple varieties.
Golden HornetMalus Golden Hornet is a traditional white blossom crab apple, with persistent yellow fruits.
John DownieJohn Downie is a traditional crab apple for making crab apple jelly. White blossom and orange-red fruits.
Ellison's OrangeEllison's Orange is a well respected Cox-style apple which can achieve very good flavour.
Newton WonderA traditional English cooking apple, a good alternative to Bramley.
GalaGala is popular supermarket apple - but better when home-grown, with a sweet pleasant flavour.
Golden GemA traditional crab-apple featuring a mass of white blossom in spring, followed by yellow crab apples.
Harry BakerMalus Harry Baker is a popular crab-apple with deep pink flowers and dark red fruits which are very good for crab-apple jelly.
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History
Lady Henniker was raised from a pip in the 1840s by John Perkins, the gardener to Lord Henniker, of Thornham Hall in Suffolk. The parentage is unknown.
Lady Henniker characteristics
- What level of gardening skill is needed to grow Lady Henniker?Average
- Is Lady Henniker self-fertile?Not self-fertile
- What flowering group is Lady Henniker?4
- Is Lady Henniker good for pollinating others?Poor
- How does Lady Henniker bear fruit?Spur-bearer
- What climates is Lady Henniker suitable for?Temperate climatesMild damp climates
- What season do you pick Lady Henniker?Late
- CroppingHeavy
- How long can you keep Lady Henniker in a fridge?3 months or more
- Food usesEating freshCulinaryTraditional cookerDual purpose
- What is the overall disease resistance of Lady Henniker?Good
- Is Lady Henniker resistant to scab?Some resistance
- Where does Lady Henniker originate from?United Kingdom
- When was Lady Henniker first introduced?1800 - 1849
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More about apple trees
There is no doubt that the famous Bramley's Seedling still rightly reigns supreme. Characterised by its copious rich juicy acidity it quickly renders to stiff puree in the kitchen, and is the benchmark for English apple cookery. However we have noticed a real resurgence in interest in the humble cooking apple in recent years, with cooks looking beyond Bramley for other qualities and textures.
Look out for cooking apples which ripen earlier than Bramley, such as Grenadier or Keswick Codlin.
Scotland also has a strong tradition of cooking apples - Galloway Pippin, Scotch Bridget, Scotch Dumpling for example. This also illustrates another useful quality of cooking apples - they can be productive even in climates where grey skies and rain are more frequent than sun and blue skies.
Many cooking apples are also great for juicing, especially if you like your apple juice to have a bit of an acidic kick.
