Greensleeves apple trees
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current) 1993
Greensleeves is a reliable and popular mid-season green/yellow apple, easy to grow and productive.
Greensleeves apple trees for sale
Pot-grown
All pot-grown trees are suitable for planting out in the garden, some are suitable for growing in containers.
PG12-year 11.5L pot-grown tree M27 rootstock £59.00
Very small tree
(< 1.7m after 10 years)
PG22-year bush-trained 12L pot-grown tree M26 rootstock £55.00< 5 in stock
Medium tree
(2m-3m after 10 years)
Bare-root
BR11-year bare-root tree M26 rootstock £34.95
Medium tree
(2m-3m after 10 years)
BR22-year bush-trained bare-root tree M26 rootstock £43.00< 5 in stock
Medium tree
(2m-3m after 10 years)
BR31-year bare-root tree MM106 rootstock £34.95
Large tree
(3m-5m after 10 years)
BR42-year bush-trained bare-root tree MM106 rootstock £43.00
Large tree
(3m-5m after 10 years)
Next deliveries
Order now for delivery from week commencing 11th December onwards where these items are showing as in stock.
Delivery charges
Delivery for a single tree starts at £9.95. It is calculated when you add trees to your basket, based on your postcode.
Greensleeves is the result of an interesting experiment, crossing the crisp sweet flavours of Golden Delicious with the juicy acidity of the famous Scottish apple variety, James Grieve. The result is a mid-season apple that crops heavily and grows very easily.
The flavour is, as you might expect, simple and straightforward - basically sweet but quite a bit sharper than Golden Delicious. Even so, since Golden Delicious prefers a warmer climate than is found in much of the UK, Greensleeves can be considered as a reasonable substitute.
As with many varieties that have James Grieve in their parentage, Greensleeves is a notably juicy apple, and useful for juicing and cider.
How to grow
Greensleeves is one of the easiest apple varieties to grow, and is partially self-fertile, and this probably accounts for its steady popularity amongst gardeners.
Greensleeves is also a very good pollinator for other apple varieties because its blossom is unusually long-lasting (a quality it inherits from both Golden Delicious and James Grieve, which are both good pollinators).
Advice on fruit tree pollination.
History
A cross between Golden Delicious and James Grieve, developed at the famous East Malling Research Station in Kent, UK, in the 1960s.
Greensleeves characteristics
- Gardening skillBeginner
- Self-fertilityPartially self-fertile
- Flowering group2
- Pollinating othersGoodAverage
- Fruit bearingSpur-bearer
- Climate suitabilityTemperate climates
- WildlifeRHS Plants for Pollinators
- Picking seasonMid
- CroppingHeavy
- Keeping (of fruit)1 week
- Food usesEating freshJuice
- Flavour style (apples)Sweet/Sharp
- Country of originUnited Kingdom
- Period of origin1950 - 1999
- Blossom colourWhite
- Fruit colourGreen
- AwardsRHS AGM (current)
