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Varieties list

Accolade
An impressive spreading ornamental cherry tree, with light pink double-flowers.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: Pink - light
- Flowering month: April
- Awards: RHS AM
Admiration
Also known as Malus Adirondack. A dwarf upright crab-apple with masses of light-pink / white flowers.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Red
- Blossom colour: Pink - light
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Amanogawa
A popular columnar flowering cherry, also known as the Flagpole Cherry.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: Pink - light
- Flowering month: May
- Awards: RHS AM
Aros®
A small slow-growing upright crab-apple, with bronze-green leaves, beautiful dark pink flowers with white centres, and maroon fruits in the autumn.
- Fruit colour: Red - dark
- Blossom colour: Pink - dark
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Arthur Turner
A mid-season cooking apple, producing a light yellow puree. Very attractive blossom.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Ascendens Rosea
This beautiful flowering cherry has a graceful upright habit and white/pink blossom.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: Pink - light
- Flowering month: April
Ashmead's Kernel
A versatile English 17th century russet apple, Ashmead's Kernel is noted for its distinctive pear-like flavour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Autumn Spire®
Autumn Spire (Flanrock) is a columnar rowan with yellow fruitlets and excellent autumn colour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Yellow
Autumnalis Rosea
A Japanese flowering cherry with light pink blossom, can sometimes flower through the whole winter.
- Blossom colour: Pink - light
- Flowering month: January
- Flowering month: February
- Flowering month: March
- Flowering month: April
- Awards: RHS AM
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Beni-yutaka
Beni-yutaka is a pink blossom tree, which also features attractive red autumnal leaves.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: Pink - dark
- Flowering month: April
Beth
An easy and reliable early-season pear, with a very good melting flavour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Early
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Beurre Hardy
A classic French pear with a very good flavour, but grows best in a warm sheltered situation.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Beurre Superfin
A traditional French 19th century pear, widely considered one of the best for flavour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Blenheim Orange
Blenheim Orange is a classic English dual-purpose apple, useful for dessert and culinary purposes.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Blue Tit
Blue Tit is a popular English dual-purpose plum, easy to grow, reliable cropping.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Bramley's Seedling
Bramley is the essential English cooking apple, famous for its rich sharp acidity.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Broadview
Broadview is the best Walnut variety for the UK climate.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Buccaneer
Another good Walnut variety for the UK climate.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Butterball
Malus Butterball is named for its bright yellow fruits, which are also good for crab apple jelly.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Yellow
- Blossom colour: White
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Cambridge Gage
Cambridge Gage is a reliable green gage, similar to Old Green Gage, with an excellent flavour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Cardinal
Also known as Princeton Cardinal, a bronze-leaved crab-apple with pink-red spring blossom and red fruitlets in the autumn.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Red - dark
- Blossom colour: Pink - dark
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Catillac
A very old French culinary pear, dating back to the reign of Louis XIV.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Chanticleer
Chanticleer is an attractive ornamental pear, grown for its spring blossom and autumn leaf colours.
- Blossom colour: White
- Flowering month: March
- Flowering month: April
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Charles Ross
Charles Ross is a very attractive classic English dual-purpose apple.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Chocolate Ice
Named after the copper-brown colour of the young leaves which contrast with the large white flowers.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: White
- Flowering month: April
Christmas Pippin®
Christmas Pippin is a new high-yielding Cox-style apple, discovered as a chance seedling tree.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Claygate Pearmain
Claygate Pearmain is a popular English dessert apple of the Victorian era.
- Picking season: Very late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Collingwood Ingram
An outstanding small flowering cherry, with deep pink blossom and attractive autumn colour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: Pink - dark
- Flowering month: March
Colney
Colney is a large modern late-season English dessert cherry, dark red/black, with a good flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Comtesse de Paris
Comtesse de Paris can be considered as an improved Golden Hornet. It features the same white blossom and persistent yellow fruitlets, but grows with a better form.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Yellow
- Blossom colour: White
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Concorde
A marriage of Conference and Comice - Concorde is easy to grow, heavy crops, excellent flavour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Conference
Conference is a popular and reliable English pear, well-suited to the UK climate.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Conference Moors Giant®
Moors Giant is a natural sport of the popular Conference pear - all the same qualities, but with much larger fruit size.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Czar
Czar is a traditional culinary plum, one of the easiest plums trees, will even fruit on north-facing walls.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Delbarestivale
An attractive heavy-cropping September apple with a good flavour.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Discovery
Discovery is the definitive early-season English apple variety, makes a good fruit tree for the garden.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Early
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Doyenne du Comice
Doyenne du Comice is arguably the best flavoured of all pears.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Eastern Promise
Features feathered leaves, and pink-red fruitlets.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Pink
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
Ellison's Orange
Ellison's Orange is a well respected Cox-style apple which can achieve very good flavour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 4
- 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
Farleigh
One of the hardiest damsons, and crops heavily. Farleigh has the distinctive damson flavour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Fiesta
Fiesta (or Red Pippin) is one of the best Cox-style apples, easy to grow, with a good aromatic flavour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Fugenzo
A traditional double-flowered Japanese flowering cherry, also known as Kofugen.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: Pink - light
- Flowering month: May
Gibbsii
Gibbsii grows with a neat spreading columnar form, sprinkled with clusters of bright red fruits in the autumn.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Red
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 Hornet
Malus Golden Hornet is a traditional white blossom crab apple, with persistent yellow fruits.
- Fruit colour: Yellow
- Blossom colour: White
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Gorham
A reliable early 20th century American pear, with a sweet creamy flesh.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Greensleeves
Greensleeves is a reliable and popular mid-season green/yellow apple, easy to grow and productive.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Grenadier
Grenadier is an early-season cooking apple, and one of the most foolproof apple varieties.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Early
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Haganta
Haganta is a new large blue plum variety from Germany, one of the latest-ripening and an excellent flavour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Hertford
A large dark red English cherry with a good flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Hokusai
Hokusai is a traditional Japanese pink blossom cherry tree.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: Pink - light
- Flowering month: April
Howgate Wonder
Howgate Wonder is a large cooking apple which keeps well. Produces an excellent sharp juice.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Ichiyo
An attractive medium-sized Japanese cherry blossom tree, with classic double shell pink flowers.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: Pink - light
- Flowering month: April
Jacqueline
Prunus Jacqueline is a new flowering cherry, featuring stunning pink blossom and superb autumn colours.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: Pink - dark
- Flowering month: April
James Grieve
James Grieve is the classic Scottish dual-purpose apple. It can be eaten fresh, and is also excellent for juicing and cooking.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Jefferson
Jefferson is a a large yellow gage / plum, easy to grow, crops well, very juicy and great flavour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Jelly King®
A compact crab apple, with unusually large persistent fruits - excellent for crab apple jelly.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Orange / Red
- Blossom colour: White
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
John Bond
An unusual species of Sorbus, the leaves are particularly attractive for their white undersides.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Brown
John Downie
John Downie is a traditional crab apple for making crab apple jelly. White blossom and orange-red fruits.
- Fruit colour: Orange / Red
- Blossom colour: White
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Jonagold
Jonagold is a high quality American apple, with a good balanced sweet/sharp flavor.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Joseph Rock
A small rowan, with distinctive pale yellow fruitlets. Also one of the best for autumn colour.
- Fruit colour: Yellow
- Awards: RHS 1st class
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Josephine de Malines
A classic 19th century winter pear with a high quality flavour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Very late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Jupiter
Jupiter is a popular Cox-style apple with a slightly stronger flavour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Kanzan
Kanzan (or Kwanzan) is one of the most popular Japanese flowering cherries, well-suited to the UK climate.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: Pink - dark
- Flowering month: April
- Awards: RHS AM
Kidd's Orange Red
Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Kiku-shidare-zakura
This is the classic Japanese weeping pink cherry blossom tree (sometimes known as Cheal's Weeping Cherry).
- Blossom colour: Pink
- Flowering month: April
- Awards: RHS AM
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
King of the Pippins
A popular and versatile dual-purpose apple, widely grown in the Victorian era.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Partially 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
Kursar
A small ornamental early-flowing cherry tree, with profuse blossom.
- Blossom colour: Pink
- Flowering month: March
- Awards: RHS AM
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Lane's Prince Albert
A classic Victorian cooking apple. Plenty of juicy acidity and stores well.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Lapins
Perhaps the best all-round sweet cherry for the UK. Easy to grow, with heavy crops of good-flavoured cherries.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Laura
Malus Laura is a very upright dwarf crab-apple, with bronze leaves, crimson blossom and maroon fruitlets.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: Crimson
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Laxton's Fortune
A quietly popular Edwardian era Cox-style apple, developed by the Laxton Brothers Nursery.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Limelight
Limelight is an attractive green mid-season dessert apple, ideal for beginners.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Lord Lambourne
Lord Lambourne is a popular versatile garden apple variety, with a good balance of sweet and sharp flavours.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Lord Napier
Lord Napier is the best white-fleshed nectarine for the UK climate.
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Louise Bonne of Jersey
An attractive red-flushed French pear variety with sweet melting flesh.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Lutescens
An excellent garden tree, very hardy, easy to grow, and tolerant of a wide range of soils and conditions. Grey-green leaves turn russet in autumn, with orange berries.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Malus floribunda
Malus floribunda is also known as the Japanese Crab. Pink / white blossom then red / yellow fruits.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Yellow / Red
- Blossom colour: White
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Malus hupehensis
A traditional garden crab-apple from China, with white blossom and small red-tinged fruitlets, a good choice as a specimen tree.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Green / Red
- Blossom colour: White
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Malus transitoria
Malus transitoria is known as the Cut-leaf crab-apple, and features a mass of small white flowers, and clusters of tiny yellow fruitlets.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Yellow
- Blossom colour: White
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Merchant
An early-season black/red cherry with a good flavour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Morello
Morello is a traditional late-season acid or sour-cherry, ideal for cooking with, and can be grown in north-facing situations.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Newton Wonder
A traditional English cooking apple, a good alternative to Bramley.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Nottingham
A popular Medlar, used mainly for cooking.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Olympic Flame
An attractive small rowan tree, its orange/red autumn leaf-colours are amongst the best.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Onward
Onward is high quality dessert pear, related to Doyenne du Comice but easier to grow.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
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
Oullins Golden Gage
The flavour of a true gage yet also easy to grow, Oullins Golden Gage is a good first gage tree.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Pandora
An excellent small flowering cherry, with pale pink blossom, and interesting leaf colour in both spring and autumn.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: Pink - light
- Flowering month: March
Peasgood's Nonsuch
Peasgood Nonsuch is a highly-regarded old-fashioned English cooking apple.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Pendula
A very attractive flowering pear tree, notable for its distinctive weeping branches, and silver-green leaves.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: White
- Flowering month: April
Penny
Penny is a high quality late-season black cherry - ripening in mid-August.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Peregrine
Peregrine is the best flavoured white-flesh peach for the UK climate.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flesh colour: White
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Pink Perfection
The definitive pink blossom tree, offers a long-lasting display of pink double flowers.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: Pink
- Flowering month: April
- Flowering month: May
Pitmaston Duchess
Pitmaston Duchess is a traditional English dual-purpose, noted for the very large size of its pears.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Pixie
Pixie produces lots of small Cox-style apples, easy to grow and keep well.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Plena
A form of the native English wild cherry, featuring which has double white flowers rather than single flowers.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: White
- Flowering month: May
Praecox
A small and hardy winter-flowering cherry, ideal for winter colour and small gardens.
- Blossom colour: White
- Flowering month: February
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Prunus sargentii
Sargent's Cherry is an impressive ornamental cherry, scoring highly for blossom, autumn colour, and its attractive form.
- Blossom colour: Pink
- Flowering month: April
- Awards: RHS AM
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Prunus sargentii
Sargent's Cherry is an impressive ornamental cherry, scoring highly for blossom, autumn colour, and its attractive form.
- Blossom colour: Pink
- Flowering month: April
- Awards: RHS AM
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Prunus serrula
A popular flowering cherry tree species, The Tibetan cherry or Birch Bark cherry is well-known for its attractive bark.
- Blossom colour: White
- Flowering month: April
- Awards: RHS AM
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Purple Pershore
Very similar to Yellow Pershore and with the same excellent culinary qualities.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Red Falstaff®
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®
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
Reeves
A high-quality English dual-purpose plum, similar to Victoria but with an improved flavour for eating fresh.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Ribston Pippin
A handsome English apple from the 18th century.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Rochester
An excellent yellow-fleshed peach, well-suited to the UK climate.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Rosemary Russet
A classic English russet apple with excellent flavours, but not as well known as its Victorian contemporaries.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Saint Edmund's Russet
Not as well known as other russets, St. Edmund's Russet is nevertheless one of the best.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Sanctus Hubertus
One of the best cropping early-season plums.
- Picking season: Early
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Santana
Santana is a good quality disease-resistant apple, notable for low levels of allergenic compounds.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Scarlett
Malus toringo Scarlett is an ornamental crab apple with bronze leaves, dusky pink blossom, and dark red fruitlets.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Purple
- Blossom colour: Pink
- Self-fertility: 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
Shirotae
Prunus Shirotae features large single or semi-double fragrant white flowers, and is perhaps the most beautiful of the white-flowered Japanese cherries.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: White
- Flowering month: April
Shizuka - Fragrant Cloud
A Japanese flowering cherry with large fragrant bright white blossom, and strong autumn colours.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: White
- Flowering month: May
Shogetsu - Blushing Bride
One of the loveliest of the white-blossom Japanese flowering cherries.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: White
- Flowering month: May
Shosar
An upright fastigate flowering cherry with pink blossom and good autumn leaf colours.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: Pink - light
- Flowering month: March
Shropshire Prune
The definitive English damson, Shropshire Prune has the rich astringent flavour typical of damsons.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Awards: Slow Food - Ark of Taste
Sorbus sargentiana
A broad spreading rowan with bright orange fruitlets and autumn foliage.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Orange / Red
Sorbus vilmorinii
The main feature of this Rowan trees is the pink fruitlets, which turn white as autumn progresses. It is one of the smaller Sorbus species, but also one of the more spreading.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Pink
- Fruit colour: White
Stella
If you only want to grow one cherry tree, choose Stella - self-fertile, easy to grow, and a good pollinator.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Summer Sun
Summer Sun is productive mid-season cherry, and should ripen even if the summer weather is less than perfect.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Sun Rival
Malus Sun Rival is a popular weeping crab-apple, with pale pink blossom and small red berry-like fruitlets.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Red
- Blossom colour: Pink - light
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Sunset
Sunset is a popular garden alternative to Cox, easier to grow, with a sweet aromatic flavour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Sunset Boulevard
A large flowering cherry tree with a distinctive columnar form, and large single white flowers.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: White
- Flowering month: April
Sweetheart
Sweetheart is one of the best-flavoured late-season cherries for the UK climate.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Tai-haku
A traditional Japanese flowering cherry, known as the "Great White Cherry" and notable for its very large single white flowers.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: White
- Flowering month: April
- Awards: RHS AM
The Bride
A small ornamental cherry with large single white flowers.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: White
- Flowering month: April
Topaz
A modern and reliable disease-resistant variety with a sharp flavour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not 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
Warner's King
An 18th century English cooker which remains popular. Cooks to a sharp-flavoured puree.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Wedding Bouquet
Malus Wedding Bouquet features ivory-white blossom and tiny red berry-like fruitlets.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Fruit colour: Red - dark
- Blossom colour: White
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Williams
Williams is a classic English pear, also known as Bartlett, with good flavour and quite easy to grow.
- Picking season: Early
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Worcester Pearmain
Worcester Pearmain is a well-known early-season English apple, noted for its strawberry-like flavours.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Early
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Yamadei
A small shrub-like ornamental cherry with clusters of white bell-shaped flowers and orange autumn leaf colours.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: White
- Flowering month: March
Yoshino
The Somei-Yoshino cherry - a graceful wide-spreading flowering cherry with large white blossom, which is the national flower of Japan.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Blossom colour: White
- Flowering month: March