Bright Future apple trees

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• Picking season: Late
• Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
• Flowering group: 3

Bright Future is an attractive modern eating apple, with a good pedigree and an excellent flavour. If you are looking for a high-quality dessert apple, this is a good one to consider.

The flesh is quite hard and dense, with rich aromatic qualities, and an attractive fruity note.

It is a late-season variety and will easily keep in a domestic fridge into the new year.

Bright Future was one of the last apples developed by the modern English apple breeder Hugh Ermen, and has arguably the most sophisticated flavour of all his varieties.

Growing and Training

Bright Future inherits many of the easy-growing qualities of Discovery, which is one of the more reliable and disease-free English apples. However unlike Discovery this is a true late-ripening variety, and to achieve the excellent flavour that this variety is capable of it needs to be planted in a sheltered location in full sun.

History

Bright Future was developed by English apple breeder Hugh Ermen and released in 2008. It is an interesting cross between a very late-season Australian apple variety called Lady Williams, and the well-known early-season English variety, Discovery. Although it has the easy-growing nature of Discovery, in every other respect it takes after Lady Williams - which is also one of the parents of the popular supermarket variety Cripps Pink. Bright Future features the same hard dense flesh and a similar fruity flavour.

Bright Future characteristics

British-grown trees

Unlike many garden centres and online retailers, the vast majority of our fruit trees are grown in the UK. Find out more.

In addition, all our trees are certified under the Plant Healthy scheme, supervised by the Plant Health Alliance. Other stakeholders include Defra and the RHS. The scheme aims to improve UK biosecurity by setting standards for all growers and retailers involved in selling plants in the UK. Find out more

Guaranteed fruit trees

When you buy your fruit tree from Orange Pippin Fruit Trees we guarantee it for the first season in your garden whilst it gets established. If it doesn't grow successfully, we'll either replace it the following season or offer a refund - subject to some conditions. Find out more.