Dessert Apples - an introduction
All available as 'maidens' bare rooted and now being delivered from late November onwards. 'Maidens' are one year trees 1m - 2m tall depending on the variety. Again depending on the variety they may or may not have branching.
Apples require a pollination partner. Each variety has a flowering period between A - early and E - late. A variety can be pollinated by another of the same flowering group or one to either side. |
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Trees will not be dispatched until late November when dormant. However you are welcome to order now, we will then reserve for you and be in contact in November to arrange delivery. We will not debit your card until October.
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Adams Pearmain
Well-flavoured apple - nutty, aromatic. Keeps well. A trouble free variety with golden yellow skin largely covered crimson red.
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Ashmeads Kernel
A yellowish-green apple with brown russet. Yellow flesh with crisp acid flavour. Good disease resistance and keeping qualities.
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Blenheim Orange
An old favourite. Golden coloured striped dull red with a brown russet. Good mildew resistance.
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Bright Future
Introduced to celebrate 50 years of Garden Organic, the UKs largest organic gardening organisation. Funds raised will go towards the educational work of the charity. Flavour is good with a nice sweet acid combination.
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Cevaal
Cox like apple with good flavour. Consistently high yielding. Yellow skin flushed red. Very good for organic growing. One of five recommended apples to come from a recently completed five year organic trial.
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Charles Ross
Good-looking large dual-purpose apple. Yellow green flushed orange red. Sweet- flavoured eater that bakes well. Trees on M26 rootstock are now non organic.
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Court Pendu Plat
Skin green yellow flushed orange red. Rich pineapple-like acidity. Slower growing hence on vigorous rootstock.
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Cox's Orange Pippin
The most popular eating apple. Golden flushed orange red with patches of brown russet. Very good flavour.
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D'Arcy Spice
An old Essex variety. Sweet yet acid taste. Gains a spicy flavour in hot dry summers. Skin yellow-green with some brown flushing.
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Discovery
Very good early eater, crisp juicy and sweet. Almost all covered bright crimson. Disease- resistant and suitable for colder areas.
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Egremont Russet
Deservedly popular russet. Golden skin with large areas of brown russet. Crisp flavour, nutty and sweet. A trouble-free variety.
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Ellisons Orange
Green yellow skin flushed over red. Scab resistant. Juicy fruits with a hint of aniseed. Hardy, good for the north east.
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Fiesta
Also known as 'Red Pippin', skin much flushed bright red. Good croppingFruit sweet and juicy with balancing acidity. Suitable for colder areas.
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Fortune
A good garden variety of compact habit. Medium sized round apples largely coloured bright red. Sweet, juicy with acidity. Suitable for the north and west.
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Gladstone
A very early dessert apple best eaten off the tree. Very good flavour, sweet and juicy. Surface almost all covered deep or brick red.
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Greensleeves
Golden Delicious type apple. Skin pale green, some russeting. Fruits crunchy and sweet when eaten fresh.
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Herefordshire Russet(R)
A new Russet variety. Small/medium sized apples with a rich cox like flavour. Trouble free variety that yields well. (copyright Trees for Life).
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James Grieve
Well known Scottish variety. Medium-large yellow fruit striped with orange. Excellent flavour, sweet with an acid balance. Hardy. Good pollinator. Small trees available now hence reduced price.
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Jonagold
A relatively modern variety that has become important commercially. Apples are large sweet with a nice rich flavour. A triploid variety so a strong grower.
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Katy
An early apple producing good regular yields of bright conical red fruits. Refreshing taste with slight acidity.
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Kidd's Orange Red
Mid season dessert apple of very good flavour. Apples crimson flushed with small areas of russet.
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King Charles Pearmain
Golden base colour covered by a thin brown russet. Sweet with acidity and a slightly nutty flavour.
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King Coffee
Large, rather flat, dessert variety with a dark red flush. When ripe, in November and December, the soft, coarse-fleshed, apples have a "hint of coffee flavour" according to "the Book of Apples"
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Laxtons Superb
Largely purple red skin over greenish-yellow base. Cox like flavour. Hardy.
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Lord Hindlip
Late medium / large conical apple of excellent taste.
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Lord Lambourne
A regular heavy cropping apple. Flushed and striped red over green yellow base. Sweet & juicy. Compact grower, good for small gardens.
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Madresfield Court
Produces quite large tall red flushed nicely flavored apples.
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Pitmaston Pineapple
Small golden apples. Sweet yet sharp. Honeyed flavour and nicely scented. A neglected variety because of the apples small size.
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Pixie
Small round flat apples. Excellent taste, sweet but refreshing, crisp and juicy. Skin yellow flushed with orange red.
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Rajka(R)
Medium sized attractive smooth bright red apples. Yellowish firm but juicy flesh of excellent flavour. Regular cropping and disease reistant.
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Red Devil
Bright red apples with pinkish flesh. Fruity, strawberry flavour. Good disease resistance suitable for most areas of the UK.
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Red Falstaff(R)
A red sport of Falstaff. Good flavoured green fruits largely covered bright red. Heavy yielding, disease-resistant and a good pollinator. Excellent flavoured fruits.
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Resi (R)
A variety bred for disease resistance. Medium sized flat round smooth apples. Skin mostly red over yellow base colour. Good flavour, quite sweet with acid balance.
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Ribston Pippin
Produces medium to larrge apples largely covered brownish orange with broad red stripes. Nice flavour, sweet with acidity. High vitamin C content.
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Rosemary Russet
A good russet with a sweet yet sour flavour. Juicy. Skin green/yellow striped orange, partly covered with russet.
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Rubinola (R)
A commercial variety with very good disease resistance. Apples spherically shaped largely flushed faded red. Of very good flavour, sweet acid aromatic flavour.
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Saturn
A new disease reistant variety. Regular crops of conical apples flushed red. Juicy flesh, sweet with some acidity.
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Scotch Bridget
A dual purpose variety producing large conical apples with prominent ribbing. Yellow green skin flushed bright red on its sunny side. Suitable for most areas.
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Spartan
Smooth-skinned dark red apple with white juicy flesh. Trouble free-variety and good pollinator.
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Sunset
Similar to Cox but more disease resistant. Heavy regular crops of smallish apples with golden skin striped red. Very good garden apple suitable for most areas of the UK.
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Tom Putt
An old variety popular in south west England. Acidic in taste as a dessert, often used for cider. Angular apple with ribs at the base. Skin largely covered crimson red.
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Topaz
A disease resistant variety from Czech Republic. Medium sized apples red striped over yellow orange background. Taste sweet with acidity, juicy firm flesh.
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Tupstones
Originating in Worcestershire, this dessert apple is medium sized with the skin having some russet. The fruits have firm, fine, yellowish white flesh with a subacid and nutty flavour.
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Tydemans Early Worcester
Early round apple coloured mostly crimson red. Richly flavoured, juicy, with slight acidity. Produces a spreading tree.
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Wheelers Russet
Produces apples covered with a yellow grey russet turning reddish where exposed to the sun. White, juicy flesh.
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William Crump
A high quality medium to large apple. Skin brown-crimson flushed over yellow. Crisp and juicy with a nice balance of sweetness and acidity.
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Winston
A late apple with green yellow skin flushed red. Good resistance to disease. Excellent keeper. Partly self-fertile. Reliable cropper.
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Worcester Pearmain
Fruit almost completely flushed brilliant red. Sweet with a strawberry flavour. Inclined to tip bearing. Reliable cropper, allow fruit to fully ripen on tree.
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Wyken Pippin
A very old variety. Popular in the 1800s. Smooth green-yellow skin with fine russet dots. Juicy sweet and richly flavoured.
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Yellow Ingestrie
Produces decorative small yellow apples. Well flavoured juicy crisp yellow flesh. Tree develops a distinctive drooping habit.
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