- See also:
- Early-season eating apples7
- Late-season eating apples37
- Cooking apples25
- Dual-purpose apples13
Mid-season eating apples
Early-ripening apples are usually ready in August, and should be eaten quickly to enjoy their fresh flavours.
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Ballerina Flamenco®
A ballerina-style apple tree which grows as columnar minarette.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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Bladon PippinTM
A new Cox-style apple variety, but with a sweeter flavour - discovered as a chance seedling in the village of Bladon.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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Charles Ross
Charles Ross is a very attractive classic English dual-purpose apple.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Cox's Orange Pippin
Cox is widely acknowledged as having the best flavour of any apple variety.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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Delbarestivale
An attractive heavy-cropping September apple with a good flavour.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
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Ellison's Orange
Ellison's Orange is a well respected Cox-style apple which can achieve very good flavour.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Gala
Gala is popular supermarket apple - but better when home-grown, with a sweet pleasant flavour.- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
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Greensleeves
Greensleeves is a reliable and popular mid-season green/yellow apple, easy to grow and productive.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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James Grieve
James Grieve is the classic Scottish dual-purpose apple. It can be eaten fresh, and is also excellent for juicing and cooking.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Laxton's Fortune
A quietly popular Edwardian era Cox-style apple, developed by the Laxton Brothers Nursery.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Limelight
Limelight is an attractive green mid-season dessert apple, ideal for beginners.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Lord Lambourne
Lord Lambourne is a popular versatile garden apple variety, with a good balance of sweet and sharp flavours.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Meridian
Meridian is a little known modern English apple, heavy crops, easy to grow, and excellent flavour.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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Red Windsor®
Red Windsor is one of the easiest to grow of all dessert apple trees, and with a pleasant apple flavour.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Saint Edmund's Russet
Not as well known as other russets, St. Edmund's Russet is nevertheless one of the best.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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Saturn
An attractive modern English apple, crisp flesh and an excellent flavour.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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SurprizeTM
An unusual new apple variety with a unique combination of orange skin and pink flesh.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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Yellow Ingestrie
One of the prettiest of all apples, perfect for a table display, with a rich fruity flavour.- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
