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.
£55.00buy
- 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.
£55.00 - £59.00buy
- 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.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Braeburn
Braeburn is one of the best-flavoured supermarket apple varieties.
£55.00buy
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
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.
£55.00buy
- 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.
£56.25 - £61.50buy
- 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.
£56.25buy
- 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
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
Eden®
A new dual-purpose apple which has a naturally non-browning flesh, ideal for salads and fresh apple juice.
£56.25 - £61.50buy
- 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.
£55.00 - £60.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fiesta
Fiesta (or Red Pippin) is one of the best Cox-style apples, easy to grow, with a good aromatic flavour.
£55.00 - £59.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Golden Delicious
The flavour of home-grown Golden Delicious is far better than its supermarket reputation.
£55.00buy
- 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.
- 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.
£55.00 - £60.00buy
- 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.
£55.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
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)
Jupiter
Jupiter is a popular Cox-style apple with a slightly stronger flavour.
£55.00 - £59.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Kidd's Orange Red
Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.
£55.00buy
- 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.
- 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.
£55.00 - £60.00buy
- 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.
£56.25 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Melrose
Melrose is a well-regarded American apple, with a pleasant sweet flavour.
£55.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
Queen of the RealmTM
A new apple variety, released in 2022 to celebrate the Queen's platinum jubilee.
£56.75buy
- 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.
£55.50 - £61.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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)
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)
Rubinette
Best seller
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
Spartan
Spartan produces lots of crimson maroon apples, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, delicate "vinous" flavour.
£55.00 - £60.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Sunset
Sunset is a popular garden alternative to Cox, easier to grow, with a sweet aromatic flavour.
£55.00 - £60.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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)
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.
£55.00 - £59.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3