Mid-season eating apples

Discover our range of high quality mid-season eating apple trees, available in a range of sizes and rootstocks. Buy online with expert advice and UK delivery.

Ballerina Flamenco®
Flamenco (also known as Obelisk) is a ballerina-style apple tree which grows as columnar minarette.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Bardsey
A hardy disease-resistant apple, discovered growing on an island off the west coast of Wales.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Bladon PippinTM
A new Cox-style apple variety, but with a sweeter flavour - discovered as a chance seedling in the village of Bladon.
£36.50 - £58.75buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Charles Ross
Charles Ross is a very attractive classic English dual-purpose apple.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Cox's Orange Pippin
Cox is widely acknowledged as having the best flavour of any apple variety.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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)
Ellison's Orange
Ellison's Orange is a well respected Cox-style apple which can achieve very good flavour.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Gala
Gala is popular supermarket apple - but better when home-grown, with a sweet pleasant flavour.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Greensleeves
Greensleeves is a reliable and popular mid-season green/yellow apple, easy to grow and productive.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
James Grieve
James Grieve is the classic Scottish dual-purpose apple. It can be eaten fresh, and is also excellent for juicing and cooking.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Laxton's Fortune
A quietly popular Edwardian era Cox-style apple, developed by the Laxton Brothers Nursery.
£34.95 - £43.00buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Limelight
Limelight is an attractive green mid-season dessert apple, ideal for beginners.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Lord Lambourne
Lord Lambourne is a popular versatile garden apple variety, with a good balance of sweet and sharp flavours.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Meridian
Meridian is a little known modern English apple, heavy crops, easy to grow, and excellent flavour.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Red Devil
Red Devil is a good apple variety for the UK garden, and produces a sweet red-tinted juice.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Red Windsor®
Red Windsor is one of the easiest to grow of all dessert apple trees, and with a pleasant apple flavour.
£34.95 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Saint Edmund's Russet
Not as well known as other russets, St. Edmund's Russet is nevertheless one of the best.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Saturn
An attractive modern English apple, crisp flesh and an excellent flavour.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
SurprizeTM
An unusual new apple variety with a unique combination of orange skin and pink flesh.
£36.25 - £64.00buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Yellow Ingestrie
One of the prettiest of all apples, perfect for a table display, with a rich fruity flavour.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3

How to choose Mid-season eating apples

For apples the mid-season period usually starts in early September and finishes later in September when the late-season varieties start arriving.

Mid-season apples are best eaten straight from the tree. However unlike early-season apples, they will usually keep fresh for a couple of weeks in a fridge. On the other hand, just like early apples, mid-season apples ripen quite quickly so be sure to keep a close watch on them in early September and see if they are ready to pick.

Another thing you notice with mid-season apples is they still have that fresh zing you get with the early varieties, but the flavours are now more nuanced and interesting.

Some really good apple varieties fall into this category - including Red Windsor, Red Devil, and Lord Lambourne. These are un-fussy apples with good flavours, ideal for taking to work for a mid-morning snack.

And the famous Cox's Orange Pippin also just about falls into this category.