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Varieties
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Categories
Apples
10
Early eating apples
1
Mid-season eating apples
2
Late eating apples
5
Cooking apples
1
Cherries
5
Sweet cherries
7
Crab apples
4
Plums
2
Eating plums
2
Dual-purpose plums
2
Stock availability
All
23
Available to pre-order
23
Not in stock
0
Form
1-year
296
1-year bush-trained
1
2-year
175
2-year bush-trained
141
Spindlebush
23
2-year half-standard
34
Premium half-standard
57
2-year top-worked
10
2-year (1.75m)
28
Cordon-trained
8
Premium cordon
3
Each
Mature size
Very small
Small
11
Medium
12
Large
1
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M9
12
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VVA-1
2
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Gisela 5
6
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M26
2
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Semi-dwarf
1
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Gisela 6
1
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Supplied as
Bare-root
23
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
12
Average
9
Experienced
2
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
14
Partially self-fertile
4
Not self-fertile
5
Flowering group
?
1
2
6
3
10
4
6
5
1
6
Pollinating others
?
Good
9
Average
11
Poor
2
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
20
Mild damp climates
3
Warm climates
10
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
1
Early
5
Mid
4
Late
11
Very late
1
Cropping
?
Heavy
12
Good
6
Light
1
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
8
1 week
4
2-3 weeks
1-2 months
3
3 months or more
4
Food uses
Eating fresh
18
Culinary
5
Traditional cooker
1
Dual purpose
1
Juice
5
Hard cider
1
Drying
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
6
Average
9
Poor
3
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
Belgium
Canada
3
China
Czech Republic
1
Denmark
France
Germany
1
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
2
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
1
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
7
United States
4
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1750 - 1799
1800 - 1849
1
1850 - 1899
2
1900 - 1949
3
1950 - 1999
10
2000
3
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
1
May
June
December
Blossom colour
White
19
Cream
Pink - light
2
Pink
Pink - dark
Red - dark
Crimson
Fruit colour
Black
2
Blue - dark
Bronze
Brown
Crimson
1
Gold
Green
1
Green - light
1
Green / Red
1
Green / Yellow
1
Orange
1
Orange / Red
5
Orange flush
Pink
Purple
Purple - light
Red
10
Red - dark
3
Red / Black
1
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
1
Varigated
Yellow
1
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
1
Cream
Golden / Yellow
Orange
Pink / Red
Dark red
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
10
RHS AGM (former)
1
RHS AM
1
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
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Varieties list
Braeburn
Braeburn is one of the best-flavoured supermarket apple varieties.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Bramley 20
Bramley 20 is a naturally smaller version of Bramley's Seedling (the apples are the same size though).
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Early Red Maraly
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Early Red is a modern dark red sweet cherry with a firm flesh.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Egremont Russet
Egremont Russet is the most popular English russet variety, and a good apple tree for the garden.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Evereste
Evereste is one of the most well-known crab-apples, featuring white blossom and red-yellow fruits.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Gala
Gala is popular supermarket apple - but better when home-grown, with a sweet pleasant flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Golden Delicious
The flavour of home-grown Golden Delicious is far better than its supermarket reputation.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Golden Gem
A traditional crab-apple featuring a mass of white blossom in spring, followed by yellow crab apples.
Fruit colour: Yellow
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Kordia
Kordia is a large late-season true black cherry variety with a good balanced cherry flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Nimba
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Nimba is a modern large-fruited red sweet cherry, ripening right at the start of the cherry season.
Picking season: Very early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Opal
Opal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Pacific Red
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Pacific Red is a modern large-fruited red sweet cherry with a firm flesh.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Professor Sprenger
A well-proportioned crab-apple with profuse white blossom, and golden-orange fruitlets in autumn.
Fruit colour: Orange
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Queen Cox
A modern self-fertile form of the renowned Cox's Orange Pippin, with arguably even better flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Red Falstaff
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Red Falstaff is one of the best garden apple trees, heavy crops, easy to grow, and very juicy.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Red Sentinel
Malus Red Sentinel has classic white blossom and a profusion of tiny scarlet persistent fruits.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fruit colour: Red
Blossom colour: White
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Awards: RHS AM
Red Windsor
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Red Windsor is one of the easiest to grow of all dessert apple trees, and with a pleasant apple flavour.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Regina
Regina is a new late-season sweet black cherry, with a good flavour and resistance to splitting.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Scrumptious
Scrumptious is a modern award-winning early-season English dessert apple.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Spartan
Spartan produces lots of crimson maroon apples, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, delicate "vinous" flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Stardust
TM
Stardust is a new mid-season white cherry which is also fully self-fertile.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Sweetheart
Sweetheart is one of the best-flavoured late-season cherries for the UK climate.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Victoria
Victoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile