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Varieties
54 varieties
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- Some resistance
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- Very resistant
Category
- Apple trees
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- Cider apple trees
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Categories
Apples
46
Early eating apples
5
Mid-season eating apples
8
Late eating apples
13
Cooking apples
12
Dual-purpose apples
6
Red-flesh apples
2
Cider apples
8
Crab apples
4
Pears
13
Dessert pears
11
Cooking pears
3
Perry pears
4
Stock availability
All
54
In stock
45
Not in stock
9
Form
1-year
43
1-year bush-trained
2-year
17
2-year bush-trained
25
Spindlebush
7
2-year half-standard
6
Premium half-standard
12
2-year top-worked
2-year (1.75m)
3
Cordon-trained
7
Premium cordon
6
1/4 standard
Each
Mature size
Very small
11
Small
11
Medium
25
Large
44
Very large
13
N/A
Rootstocks
M27
12
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M9
11
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M26
20
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M116
12
?
MM106
38
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MM111
9
?
M25
13
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Supplied as
Bare-root
44
12L pot
25
11.5L pot
11
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
29
Average
21
Experienced
4
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
6
Partially self-fertile
12
Not self-fertile
36
Flowering group
?
1
2
9
3
23
4
15
5
2
6
5
Pollinating others
?
Good
2
Average
39
Poor
12
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
42
Free-spurring
1
Partial tip-bearer
11
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
53
Mild damp climates
40
Warm climates
5
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
2
Early
6
Mid
12
Late
29
Very late
5
Cropping
?
Heavy
20
Good
30
Light
3
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
2
1 week
4
2-3 weeks
20
1-2 months
14
3 months or more
11
Food uses
Eating fresh
37
Culinary
18
Traditional cooker
10
Dual purpose
5
Juice
28
Hard cider
11
Drying
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
37
Average
13
Poor
Canker
Very resistant
4
Some resistance
14
Some susceptibility
3
Very susceptible
Scab (Apple and Pear)
Very resistant
27
Some resistance
27
Some susceptibility
22
Very susceptible
3
Powdery mildew
Very resistant
3
Some resistance
15
Some susceptibility
5
Fire blight
Very resistant
Some resistance
6
Some susceptibility
3
Very susceptible
Bacterial canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Peach leaf curl
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Woolly aphid
Some resistance
1
Some susceptibility
1
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
Belgium
Canada
China
Czech Republic
2
Denmark
France
2
Germany
2
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
1
New Zealand
1
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
45
United States
1
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1
1650 - 1699
1
1700 - 1749
2
1750 - 1799
5
1800 - 1849
6
1850 - 1899
11
1900 - 1949
9
1950 - 1999
13
2000
6
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
May
June
December
Blossom colour
White
21
Cream
Pink - light
14
Pink
1
Pink - dark
3
Red - dark
Crimson
2
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Bronze
Brown
Crimson
Gold
Green
2
Green - light
2
Green / Red
3
Green / Yellow
1
Orange
Orange / Red
11
Orange flush
10
Pink
Purple
Purple - light
Red
9
Red - dark
2
Red / Black
1
Red / Green
1
Red striped
1
Russet
5
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
1
White
Flesh colour
White
5
Cream
Golden / Yellow
Orange
Pink / Red
4
Dark red
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
19
RHS AGM (former)
2
RHS AM
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
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Varieties list
Annie Elizabeth
A traditional English cooking apple, with a sweet flavour, which keeps its shape when cooked.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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
Ballerina Samba
®
One of the best-flavoured Ballerina minarette-type apple varieties.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Bardsey
A hardy disease-resistant apple, discovered growing on an island off the west coast of Wales.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Beauty of Bath
One of the earliest English apples, ripening in early August.
Picking season: Very early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Black Dabinett
Black Dabinett is darker-skinned sport of Dabinett, but otherwise very similar to the original.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: 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
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
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
Bright Future
An excellent late-season English apple with a very good sweet/sharp flavour and crisp hard flesh.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Brown's Apple
Brown's Apple is a traditional English cider apple variety producing a sharp juice.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
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)
Cornish Aromatic
An attractive late-season apple from Cornwall, with a good aromatic flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Court Pendu Plat
Court Pendu Plant is a traditional French apple with an aromatic pear-drop flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Dabinett
Dabinett is a traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
D'Arcy Spice
An old English apple variety, yet with a unique flavour and many unusual qualities.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Devonshire Quarrenden
A very old English summer apple, with a vinous strawberry flavour, grown throughout the UK.
Picking season: Very early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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
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
Honeycrisp
Honeycrisp is an American cold-hardy disease-resistant apple - it shows just how good modern apples have become.
Picking season: 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
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
Lady Henniker
A well-regarded Victorian dual-purpose apple, easy to grow.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
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
Lord Derby
Lord Derby is a high-quality mid/late-season traditional English cooking apple, cooks to a chunky puree.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
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
Meridian
Meridian is a little known modern English apple, heavy crops, easy to grow, and excellent flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Michelin
Michelin is a traditional French cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially 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)
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
Pendragon
Pendragon is a red-fleshed dual-purpose apple from Cornwall.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pinova
An attractive disease-resistant dessert apple, capable of producing good clean fruit without chemical sprays.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pitmaston Pine Apple
A small English 18th century apple with a distinctive fruity pineapple-like flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Porter's Perfection
Porter's Perfection is a 19th century English cider variety producing a bittersharp juice.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Rajka
Rajka is a modern disease-resistant heavy-cropping apple variety with a good sweet/sharp flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Red Devil
Red Devil is a good apple variety for the UK garden, and produces a sweet red-tinted juice.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
Reverend W. Wilks
A widely-grown and well-regarded English cooking apple.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
Rosette
TM
Probably the best-flavoured of the pink-fleshed apple varieties, and produces lovely pink juice.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
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
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
Saturn
An attractive modern English apple, crisp flesh and an excellent flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially 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
Somerset Redstreak
An English cider apple variety producing a very high-quality bittersweet juice.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Stirling Castle
A traditional Scottish cooker from the Victorian era, with a good sharp flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Stoke Red
A traditional English cider apple producing a bittersharp juice.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Tickled Pink
A new red-fleshed apple variety, with attractive crimson blossom, also known as Baya® Marisa.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Tom Putt
An old traditional English cider variety with a sharp juice, which can also be used for cooking.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Tydeman's Late Orange
Tydeman's Late Orange is an excellent late-season Cox-style aromatic apple.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile