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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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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Charles Ross is a very attractive classic English dual-purpose apple.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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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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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
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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 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
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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
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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
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Limelight is an attractive green mid-season dessert apple, ideal for beginners.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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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
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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 Devil is a good apple variety for the UK garden, and produces a sweet red-tinted juice.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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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
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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
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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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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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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
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