Apple trees

Apple trees are generally easy to grow, and because there are so many apple varieties there is invariably a good choice for almost any growing situation.

Apples display perhaps a greater range of flavours, appearance, and texture than any other tree fruits. This diversity makes apples a particularly satisfying fruit for home cultivation. Without much difficulty (or space) you can grow a number of different apple trees which will keep a family supplied with fresh apples from mid-summer to late autumn, and with a good spread of flavours and uses.

Our apple trees are grafted on rootstocks which will control the mature height of the tree - so you can choose the size of tree that will best suit your garden or orchard project.

Adams Pearmain
Adams' Pearmain is a popular Victorian-era English apple with a distinctive 'pearmain' shape.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Annie Elizabeth
A traditional English cooking apple, with a sweet flavour, which keeps its shape when cooked.
£34.95 - £43.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Arthur Turner
A mid-season cooking apple, producing a light yellow puree. Very attractive blossom.
£34.95 - £43.00buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Ashmead's Kernel
A versatile English 17th century russet apple, Ashmead's Kernel is noted for its distinctive pear-like flavour.
£35.75 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Ballerina Flamenco®
Flamenco (also known as Obelisk) is a ballerina-style apple tree which grows as columnar minarette.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Ballerina Samba®
One of the best-flavoured Ballerina minarette-type apple varieties.
£61.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Bardsey
A hardy disease-resistant apple, discovered growing on an island off the west coast of Wales.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Beauty of Bath
One of the earliest English apples, ripening in early August.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Very early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Bladon PippinTM
A new Cox-style apple variety, but with a sweeter flavour - discovered as a chance seedling in the village of Bladon.
£36.50 - £58.75buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Blenheim Orange
Blenheim Orange is a classic English dual-purpose apple, useful for dessert and culinary purposes.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Bloody Ploughman
An old Scottish apple variety, named for the crimson-red colour of its skin and stained flesh.
£34.95 - £46.25buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Bountiful
Bountiful is an easy-to-grow cooking apple, it retains its shape when cooked, fairly sweet for a cooker.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Braeburn
Braeburn is one of the best-flavoured supermarket apple varieties.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Bramley 20
Bramley 20 is a naturally smaller version of Bramley's Seedling (the apples are the same size though).
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Bramley's Seedling
Bramley is the essential English cooking apple, famous for its rich sharp acidity.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Bright Future
An excellent late-season English apple with a very good sweet/sharp flavour and crisp hard flesh.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Brownlees Russet
Brownlees Russet is a high quality late-season dessert russet apple.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Charles Ross
Charles Ross is a very attractive classic English dual-purpose apple.
£43.00 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Chivers Delight
Chivers Delight is an under-rated Cox-style apple from Cambridgeshire. Crisp and sweet.
£34.95 - £43.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Christmas Pippin®
Christmas Pippin is a new high-yielding Cox-style apple, discovered as a chance seedling tree.
£35.75 - £64.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Claygate Pearmain
Claygate Pearmain is a popular English dessert apple of the Victorian era.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Core BlimeyTM
Core Blimey is a red Cox-style eating apple, suitable for most areas of the UK.
£43.00 - £58.75buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Cornish Aromatic
An attractive late-season apple from Cornwall, with a good aromatic flavour.
£34.95 - £45.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Cornish Gilliflower
Cornish Gilliflower is a popular English eating apple with an excellent sweet aromatic flavour.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Coul Blush
Coul Blush is an early-season dual-purpose apple from Scotland.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Court Pendu Plat
Court Pendu Plant is a traditional French apple with an aromatic pear-drop flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 6
Cox's Orange Pippin
Cox is widely acknowledged as having the best flavour of any apple variety.
£35.75 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Crispin
Crispin (also known as Mutsu) is a high quality apple from Japan, with a good flavour, and also sharp enough for cooking.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
D'Arcy Spice
An old English apple variety, yet with a unique flavour and many unusual qualities.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Delbarestivale
An attractive heavy-cropping September apple with a good flavour.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Devonshire Quarrenden
A very old English summer apple, with a vinous strawberry flavour, grown throughout the UK.
- Picking season: Very early
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Discovery
Discovery is the definitive early-season English apple variety, makes a good fruit tree for the garden.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Eden®
A new dual-purpose apple which has a naturally non-browning flesh, ideal for salads and fresh apple juice.
£36.25 - £64.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Egremont Russet
Egremont Russet is the most popular English russet variety, and a good apple tree for the garden.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Ellison's Orange
Ellison's Orange is a well respected Cox-style apple which can achieve very good flavour.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fiesta
Fiesta (or Red Pippin) is one of the best Cox-style apples, easy to grow, with a good aromatic flavour.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Gala
Gala is popular supermarket apple - but better when home-grown, with a sweet pleasant flavour.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Galloway Pippin
A traditional Scottish cooking apple which keeps its shape when cooked.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS 1st class
Golden Delicious
The flavour of home-grown Golden Delicious is far better than its supermarket reputation.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Granny Smith
Granny Smith is the world-famous green apple from Australia, a good choice for warmer apple-growing regions.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Greensleeves
Greensleeves is a reliable and popular mid-season green/yellow apple, easy to grow and productive.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Grenadier
Grenadier is an early-season cooking apple, and one of the most foolproof apple varieties.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Herefordshire Russet
Herefordshire Russet is a modern russet apple variety, with an excellent strong Cox-like flavour.
£35.50 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Hidden Rose®
Hidden Rose is named for the unexpected pink flesh hidden behind the plain green skin.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Honeycrisp
Honeycrisp is an American cold-hardy disease-resistant apple - it shows just how good modern apples have become.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Howgate Wonder
Howgate Wonder is a large cooking apple which keeps well. Produces an excellent sharp juice.
£43.00 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Irish Peach
Irish Peach is a popular early season apple, ripening in July / August. It is easy to grow and low maintenance.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Very early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Isaac Newton's Tree
Also known as Flower of Kent, this is the variety the famous scientist Sir Isaac Newton sat under.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 5
James Grieve
James Grieve is the classic Scottish dual-purpose apple. It can be eaten fresh, and is also excellent for juicing and cooking.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Jonagold
Jonagold is a high quality American apple, with a good balanced sweet/sharp flavor.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Jumbo
A dual-purpose apple, named for the exceptionally large size of its fruits.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Jupiter
Jupiter is a popular Cox-style apple with a slightly stronger flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Katy
Katy is an attractive and versatile early apple variety from Sweden, very easy to grow.
£34.95 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Keswick Codlin
Keswick Codlin is a popular early-season cooking apple, easy to grow, and productive in most climates.
£57.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Kidd's Orange Red
Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
King of the Pippins
A popular and versatile dual-purpose apple, widely grown in the Victorian era.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
King's Acre Pippin
A traditional late-season English apple with a robust flavour.
£46.95buy
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Lady Henniker
A well-regarded Victorian dual-purpose apple, easy to grow.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Lane's Prince Albert
A classic Victorian cooking apple. Plenty of juicy acidity and stores well.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Laxton's Fortune
A quietly popular Edwardian era Cox-style apple, developed by the Laxton Brothers Nursery.
£34.95 - £43.00buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Laxton's Superb
Laxton's Superb is a deservedly popular English late-season dessert apple from the Victorian era.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Limelight
Limelight is an attractive green mid-season dessert apple, ideal for beginners.
£43.00 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Little PaxTM
A new English apple variety, recently discovered on the Isle of Wight - but its appearance and flavour hark back to the Victorian era.
£35.75 - £64.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Lord Derby
Lord Derby is a high-quality mid/late-season traditional English cooking apple, cooks to a chunky puree.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Lord Lambourne
Lord Lambourne is a popular versatile garden apple variety, with a good balance of sweet and sharp flavours.
£43.00 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Melrose
Melrose is a well-regarded American apple, with a pleasant sweet flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Meridian
Meridian is a little known modern English apple, heavy crops, easy to grow, and excellent flavour.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Morgan Sweet
Morgan Sweet is a traditional English cider variety producing a full sweet juice.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Newton Wonder
A traditional English cooking apple, a good alternative to Bramley.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Norfolk Royal Russet
Norfolk Royal Russet is a glorious golden-russet apple which tastes as good as it looks.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Orleans Reinette
Orleans Reinette is a traditional French apple variety, and remains popular for its old-fashioned flavour.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Peasgood's Nonsuch
Peasgood Nonsuch is a highly-regarded old-fashioned English cooking apple.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Pendragon
Pendragon is a red-fleshed dual-purpose apple from Cornwall.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 6
Pinova
An attractive disease-resistant dessert apple, capable of producing good clean fruit without chemical sprays.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Pitmaston Pine Apple
A small English 18th century apple with a distinctive fruity pineapple-like flavour.
£35.75 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Pixie
Pixie produces lots of small Cox-style apples, easy to grow and keep well.
£34.95 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Prince William
Prince William is a modern bittersweet cider variety from the famous Long Ashton Research Station.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Queen Cox
A modern self-fertile form of the renowned Cox's Orange Pippin, with arguably even better flavour.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Queen of the RealmTM
A new apple variety, released in 2022 to celebrate the Queen's platinum jubilee.
£34.95 - £59.25buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Rainbow®
Rainbow is a very late season apple with a bright white sweet/sharp flesh which does not brown. The apples keep until spring.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Rajka
Rajka is a modern disease-resistant heavy-cropping apple variety with a good sweet/sharp flavour.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Red Devil
Red Devil is a good apple variety for the UK garden, and produces a sweet red-tinted juice.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Red Falstaff®
Red Falstaff is one of the best garden apple trees, heavy crops, easy to grow, and very juicy.
£35.50 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Red Windsor®
Red Windsor is one of the easiest to grow of all dessert apple trees, and with a pleasant apple flavour.
£34.95 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Reverend W. Wilks
A widely-grown and well-regarded English cooking apple.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Ribston Pippin
A handsome English apple from the 18th century.
£34.95 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Roberts Red
Roberts Red or Roberts Crab is an unusual red-fleshed crab-apple, with dark pink blossom, and purple fruits. Useful for cooking and produces a claret red colour juice.
Rosemary Russet
A classic English russet apple with excellent flavours, but not as well known as its Victorian contemporaries.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
RosetteTM
Probably the best-flavoured of the pink-fleshed apple varieties, and produces lovely pink juice.
£35.95 - £64.00buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Saint Edmund's Russet
Not as well known as other russets, St. Edmund's Russet is nevertheless one of the best.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Santana
Santana is a good quality disease-resistant apple, notable for low levels of allergenic compounds.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Saturn
An attractive modern English apple, crisp flesh and an excellent flavour.
£57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Scotch Bridget
A popular Scottish cooking apple, well-suited to damp wet conditions.
£35.75 - £57.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Scotch Dumpling
Scotch Dumpling is a large Scottish cooking apple. Cooks to a frothy puree with a good flavour.
£57.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Scrumptious
Scrumptious is a modern award-winning early-season English dessert apple.
£35.50 - £64.00buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Spartan
Spartan produces lots of crimson maroon apples, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, delicate "vinous" flavour.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Stirling Castle
A traditional Scottish cooker from the Victorian era, with a good sharp flavour.
£57.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Sunset
Sunset is a popular garden alternative to Cox, easier to grow, with a sweet aromatic flavour.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
SurprizeTM
An unusual new apple variety with a unique combination of orange skin and pink flesh.
£36.25 - £64.00buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Tickled Pink
A new red-fleshed apple variety, with attractive crimson blossom, also known as Baya® Marisa.
£37.95 - £64.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Tom Putt
An old traditional English cider variety with a sharp juice, which can also be used for cooking.
£35.50 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Topaz
A modern and reliable disease-resistant variety with a sharp flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Tydeman's Late Orange
Tydeman's Late Orange is an excellent late-season Cox-style aromatic apple.
£34.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Warner's King
An 18th century English cooker which remains popular. Cooks to a sharp-flavoured puree.
£35.75 - £46.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
William Crump
A little-known high quality English apple, related to Cox and Worcester Pearmain.
£46.95buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Winter Gem
Winter Gem is a late-season apple variety with a very good aromatic flavour.
£43.00 - £61.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Worcester Pearmain
Worcester Pearmain is a well-known early-season English apple, noted for its strawberry-like flavours.
£34.95 - £62.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Yellow Ingestrie
One of the prettiest of all apples, perfect for a table display, with a rich fruity flavour.
£34.95 - £47.25buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3

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