• See also:
• Early-season eating apples7
• Late-season eating apples40
• Cooking apples25
• Dual-purpose apples14
• Red-flesh apple trees5

Mid-season eating apples

Mid-season apples are usually ready in early September. They are best eaten straight from the tree but will usually keep fresh for a couple of weeks in a fridge.

• 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

• 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 - £57.75buy

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

• Charles Ross

  

  Charles Ross is a very attractive classic English dual-purpose apple.

  £34.95 - £60.50buy

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

• Cox's Orange Pippin

  

  Cox is widely acknowledged as having the best flavour of any apple variety.

  £34.95 - £61.50buy

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

• 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)

• Ellison's Orange

  

  Ellison's Orange is a well respected Cox-style apple which can achieve very good flavour.

  £34.95 - £56.50buy

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

• Gala

  

  Gala is popular supermarket apple - but better when home-grown, with a sweet pleasant flavour.

  £34.95 - £56.50buy

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4

• Greensleeves

  

  Greensleeves is a reliable and popular mid-season green/yellow apple, easy to grow and productive.

  £34.95 - £60.50buy

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

• 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 - £61.50buy

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
  • 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)

• Limelight

  

  Limelight is an attractive green mid-season dessert apple, ideal for beginners.

  £34.95 - £60.50buy

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

• Lord Lambourne

  

  Lord Lambourne is a popular versatile garden apple variety, with a good balance of sweet and sharp flavours.

  £35.75 - £60.50buy

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

• Meridian

  

  Meridian is a little known modern English apple, heavy crops, easy to grow, and excellent flavour.

  £34.95 - £56.50buy

  • 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 - £61.50buy

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3

• Red Windsor®

  

  Red Windsor is one of the easiest to grow of all dessert apple trees, and with a pleasant apple flavour.

  £34.95 - £62.50buy

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

• 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)

• Saturn

  

  An attractive modern English apple, crisp flesh and an excellent flavour.

  £56.50buy

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3

• SurprizeTM

  

  An unusual new apple variety with a unique combination of orange skin and pink flesh.

  £36.25 - £63.00buy

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

• Yellow Ingestrie

  

  One of the prettiest of all apples, perfect for a table display, with a rich fruity flavour.

  £34.95buy

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