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Varieties
26 varieties
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Categories
Apples
26
Early eating apples
3
Mid-season eating apples
6
Late eating apples
13
Cooking apples
3
Dual-purpose apples
2
Red-flesh apples
2
Stock availability
All
26
In stock
26
Not in stock
0
Form
1-year
6
1-year bush-trained
2-year
2-year bush-trained
14
Spindlebush
8
2-year half-standard
Premium half-standard
2-year top-worked
2-year (1.75m)
Cordon-trained
17
Premium cordon
17
1/4 standard
Each
Mature size
Very small
Small
26
Medium
1
Large
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M27
33
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Very dwarf
1
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M9
26
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Dwarf
2
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VVA-1
22
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Quince Eline
10
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Gisela 5
12
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M26
45
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Semi-dwarf
2
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Wavit
1
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Weiwa
11
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M116
17
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MM106
86
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Colt
11
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Own-roots
1
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Quince A
18
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Semi-vigorous
64
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St. Julien
64
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MM111
15
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Pyrodwarf
14
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M25
27
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Brompton
15
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Supplied as
Bare-root
25
12L pot
17
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
16
Average
9
Experienced
1
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
6
Partially self-fertile
7
Not self-fertile
13
Flowering group
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1
2
4
3
16
4
6
5
6
Pollinating others
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Good
5
Average
17
Poor
3
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
19
Free-spurring
1
Partial tip-bearer
6
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
26
Mild damp climates
8
Warm climates
6
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
Early
3
Mid
7
Late
15
Very late
1
Cropping
?
Heavy
15
Good
10
Light
1
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
1 week
6
2-3 weeks
4
1-2 months
8
3 months or more
8
Food uses
Eating fresh
23
Culinary
7
Traditional cooker
2
Dual purpose
1
Juice
15
Hard cider
3
Drying
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
9
Average
11
Poor
2
Canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
5
Some susceptibility
5
Very susceptible
1
Scab (Apple and Pear)
Very resistant
6
Some resistance
5
Some susceptibility
9
Very susceptible
2
Powdery mildew
Very resistant
Some resistance
6
Some susceptibility
4
Fire blight
Very resistant
Some resistance
3
Some susceptibility
6
Very susceptible
Bacterial canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Peach leaf curl
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Woolly aphid
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
Belgium
Canada
1
China
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
Germany
1
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
2
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
21
United States
1
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1
1750 - 1799
1800 - 1849
2
1850 - 1899
4
1900 - 1949
4
1950 - 1999
10
2000
5
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
May
June
December
Blossom colour
White
14
Cream
Pink - light
9
Pink
1
Pink - dark
Red - dark
Crimson
1
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Bronze
Brown
Crimson
1
Gold
Green
3
Green - light
2
Green / Red
2
Green / Yellow
2
Orange
Orange / Red
3
Orange flush
6
Pink
Purple
Purple - light
Red
4
Red - dark
Red / Black
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
3
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
3
Cream
1
Golden / Yellow
Orange
Pink / Red
3
Dark red
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
12
RHS AGM (former)
1
RHS AM
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
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Varieties list
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
Bountiful
Bountiful is an easy-to-grow cooking apple, it retains its shape when cooked, fairly sweet for a cooker.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
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
Christmas Pippin
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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
Cox's Orange Pippin
Cox is widely acknowledged as having the best flavour of any apple variety.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not 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
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
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)
Herefordshire Russet
Herefordshire Russet is a modern russet apple variety, with an excellent strong Cox-like flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Laxton's Superb
Laxton's Superb is a deservedly popular English late-season dessert apple from the Victorian era.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
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
Little Pax
TM
A new English apple variety, recently discovered on the Isle of Wight - but its appearance and flavour hark back to the Victorian era.
Picking season: Late
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
Winter Gem
Winter Gem is a late-season apple variety with a very good aromatic flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile