Chivers Delight apple trees
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Chivers Delight is an under-rated Cox-style apple from Cambridgeshire. Crisp and sweet.
Chivers Delight 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 bush-trained 12L pot-grown tree M26 rootstock £55.00
Medium tree
(2m-3m after 10 years)
Bare-root
BR11-year bare-root tree M26 rootstock £34.95< 5 in stock
Medium tree
(2m-3m after 10 years)
BR22-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.
An excellent English apple, once grown commercially on a small scale, and worthy of more attention.
Chivers Delight is basically a sweet apple, with a family resemblance to Cox's Orange Pippin, but with some sharpness to the flavour. The flesh is quite dense and crisp.
Although not related at all, Chivers Delight is quite similar to Braeburn in size, flavour, and crispness - if you like Braeburn apples you will probably like Chivers Delight.
Chivers Delight ripens fairly late in the season, and the apples can be stored for about 3 months in a refrigerator without loss of flavour.
Overall a very pleasing well-balanced apple.
How to grow
Chivers Delight is a good garden apple, and easy to grow. Cropping is reliable in most situations, but the flavour is at its best in a year with a sunny autumn.
Advice on fruit tree pollination.
History
Developed in the 1920s in Cambridgeshire by Stephen Chivers of the well-known jam manufacturers, unknown parentage but likely to be related to Cox's Orange Pippin.
Chivers Delight characteristics
- Gardening skillAverage
- Self-fertilityNot self-fertile
- Flowering group4
- Pollinating othersAverage
- PloidyDiploid
- Fruit bearingSpur-bearer
- Climate suitabilityTemperate climates
- WildlifeRHS Plants for Pollinators
- Picking monthOctober
- Picking seasonLate
- CroppingGood
- Keeping (of fruit)3 months or more
- Food usesJuice
- Flavour style (apples)Sweet/SharpAromatic
- Disease resistanceAverage
- Country of originUnited Kingdom
- Period of origin1900 - 1949
- Fruit colourOrange flush
- Fruit sizeAverage
