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RHS Award of Garden Merit varieties

Fruit tree varieties that hold (or have previously held) the RHS Award of Garden Merit. These are varieties that are rated by the RHS as excellent for all-round garden value.

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  • 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

    Admiration crab apple trees
    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®

    Aros crab apple trees
    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

    Arthur Turner apple trees
    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

    Ashmead's Kernel apple trees
    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 rowan
    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

    Beth pear trees
    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

    Beurre Hardy pear trees
    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

    Beurre Superfin pear trees
    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 apple trees
    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 plum trees
    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's Seedling apple trees
    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

    Butterball crab apple trees
    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 plum trees
    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

    Cardinal crab apple trees
    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

    Catillac pear trees
    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 apple trees
    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 apple trees
    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 apple trees
    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 cherry trees
    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 crab apple trees
    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

    Concorde pear trees
    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 pear trees
    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 plum trees
    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

    Delbarestivale apple trees
    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 apple trees
    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 pear trees
    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

    Eastern Promise rowan
    Features feathered leaves, and pink-red fruitlets.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Fruit colour: Pink

  • Egremont Russet

    Egremont Russet apple trees
    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 apple trees
    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 crab apple trees
    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

    Farleigh damson trees
    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 apple trees
    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

    Golden Delicious apple trees
    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

    Golden Hornet crab apple trees
    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

    Gorham pear trees
    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 apple trees
    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 apple trees
    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

    Hertford cherry trees
    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 apple trees
    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 apple trees
    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 plum trees
    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®

    Jelly King crab apple trees
    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 crab apple trees
    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 apple trees
    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

    Joseph Rock rowan
    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

    Josephine de Malines pear trees
    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 apple trees
    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 apple trees
    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

    King of the Pippins apple trees
    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 cherry trees
    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

    Lane's Prince Albert apple trees
    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

    Lapins cherry trees
    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

    Laura crab apple trees
    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

    Laxton's Fortune apple trees
    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 apple trees
    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 apple trees
    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

    Louise Bonne of Jersey pear trees
    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

    Lutescens rowan
    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 crab apple trees
    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

    Malus hupehensis crab apple trees
    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 crab apple trees
    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

    Merchant cherry trees
    An early-season black/red cherry with a good flavour.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Early
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Morello

    Morello cherry trees
    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

    Newton Wonder apple trees
    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

    Nottingham medlar trees
    A popular Medlar, used mainly for cooking.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Olympic Flame

    Olympic Flame rowan
    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 pear trees
    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 plum trees
    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

    Oullins Golden Gage plum trees
    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's Nonsuch apple trees
    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 cherry trees
    Penny is a high quality late-season black cherry - ripening in mid-August.
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Peregrine

    Peregrine peach trees
    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 pear trees
    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 apple trees
    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

    Purple Pershore plum trees
    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 apple trees
    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

    Red Sentinel crab apple trees
    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 apple trees
    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

    Reeves plum trees
    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

    Ribston Pippin apple trees
    A handsome English apple from the 18th century.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Rochester

    Rochester peach trees
    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

    Rosemary Russet apple trees
    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

    Saint Edmund's Russet apple trees
    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

    Sanctus Hubertus plum trees
    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 apple trees
    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

    Scarlett crab apple trees
    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 apple trees
    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

    Shogetsu - Blushing Bride ornamental cherry trees
    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

    Shropshire Prune damson trees
    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

    Sorbus sargentiana rowan
    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

    Stella cherry trees
    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 cherry trees
    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

    Sun Rival crab apple trees
    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 apple trees
    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

    Sunset Boulevard ornamental cherry trees
    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 cherry trees
    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

    Topaz apple trees
    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 plum trees
    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

    Warner's King apple trees
    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

    Wedding Bouquet crab apple trees
    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 pear trees
    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 apple trees
    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