- See also:
- Early-season eating apples7
- Mid-season eating apples19
- Cooking apples25
- Dual-purpose apples14
- Red-flesh apple trees5
Late-season eating apples
Apple varieties that ripen late in the season, and are usually good for keeping as well as eating straight away.
Adams Pearmain
Adams' Pearmain is a popular Victorian-era English apple with a distinctive 'pearmain' shape.£34.95 - £56.50buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Ashmead's Kernel
A versatile English 17th century russet apple, Ashmead's Kernel is noted for its distinctive pear-like flavour.£34.95 - £61.50buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Ballerina Samba®
One of the best-flavoured Ballerina minarette-type apple varieties.£34.95 - £60.50buy- 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
Chivers Delight
Chivers Delight is an under-rated Cox-style apple from Cambridgeshire. Crisp and sweet.£34.95 - £56.50buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Christmas Pippin®
Christmas Pippin is a new high-yielding Cox-style apple, discovered as a chance seedling tree.£35.75 - £63.00buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Core BlimeyTM
Core Blimey is a red Cox-style eating apple, suitable for most areas of the UK.£35.95 - £57.75buy- 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.£34.95 - £35.75buy- 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.£34.95buy- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
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
Egremont Russet
Egremont Russet is the most popular English russet variety, and a good apple tree for the garden.£34.95 - £61.50buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Golden Delicious
The flavour of home-grown Golden Delicious is far better than its supermarket reputation.£34.95 - £56.50buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Granny Smith
Granny Smith is the world-famous green apple from Australia, a good choice for warmer apple-growing regions.£34.95 - £56.50buy- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Herefordshire Russet
Herefordshire Russet is a modern russet apple variety, with an excellent strong Cox-like flavour.£35.50 - £61.50buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Honeycrisp
Honeycrisp is an American cold-hardy disease-resistant apple - it shows just how good modern apples have become.£34.95 - £56.50buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Kidd's Orange Red
Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.£34.95 - £56.50buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
King of the Pippins
A popular and versatile dual-purpose apple, widely grown in the Victorian era.£34.95buy- 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
Laxton's Superb
Laxton's Superb is a deservedly popular English late-season dessert apple from the Victorian era.£34.95 - £61.50buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Little PaxTM
A new English apple variety, recently discovered on the Isle of Wight - but its appearance and flavour hark back to the Victorian era.£35.75 - £63.00buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Melrose
Melrose is a well-regarded American apple, with a pleasant sweet flavour.- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Norfolk Royal Russet
Norfolk Royal Russet is a glorious golden-russet apple which tastes as good as it looks.£34.95buy- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Orleans Reinette
Orleans Reinette is a traditional French apple variety, and remains popular for its old-fashioned flavour.£34.95buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Pitmaston Pine Apple
A small English 18th century apple with a distinctive fruity pineapple-like flavour.£34.95 - £46.95buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Queen of the RealmTM
A new apple variety, released in 2022 to celebrate the Queen's platinum jubilee.£34.95 - £58.25buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not 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.£35.50 - £62.50buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Ribston Pippin
A handsome English apple from the 18th century.£34.95 - £46.50buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Rosemary Russet
A classic English russet apple with excellent flavours, but not as well known as its Victorian contemporaries.£34.95buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Rubinette
Considered by many to be the best-tasting apple ever, Rubinette has a perfect sweet / sharp flavour.- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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
Winter Gem
Winter Gem is a late-season apple variety with a very good aromatic flavour.£34.95 - £60.50buy- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3