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A wide selection of dessert apple trees are offered for sale. To buy and grow your own apple tree gives you the opportunity to indulge in the many tastes that they offer. From the sharp sweetness of Fiesta to the drier nutty flavour of Egremont Russet or Adam’s Pearmain. To pick and eat an apple straight from the tree is to eat it at its best.
As fruit tree growers we offer a wide selection of dessert apple trees for sale including many traditional varieties that have been with us for many years as well as some modern varieties developed in the UK and on the continent that taste great and have good disease resistance. Trees are available as barerooted one year ‘maiden’ trees and some as little taller two year trees.
Apples ripen through the autumn. You may wish to choose a selection of trees and spread the picking time. These details are provided for each variety. For a helpful overall guide click here. You can also see a summary on the ‘Picking & Storage’ advice page.
Apples require a pollination partner. Each variety has a flowering period between A – early and E – late. A variety can be pollinated by another of the same flowering group or one to either side. These details are provided for each variety. For an overall summary visit the pollination advice page.
WE HAVE ENDED BARE ROOT SALES NOW. THE TREES & BUSHES ARE BECOMING ACTIVE. ANY ORDERS PUT THROUGH WILL BE HELD FOR SUPPLY WINTER 2019/20.
Discount information – 5% on 5+ trees 10% on 10+ trees. Carriage based on quantity – see the Delivery page for more details.
Apple trees are dispatched between late November and early April when dormant.
Having ordered we will acknowledge your order before being in contact as soon as we can to arrange delivery or collection.
Adam’s Pearmain
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
Well-flavoured apple – nutty, aromatic. Keeps well. A trouble free variety with golden yellow skin largely covered crimson red and patches of fine russet. Apples have a distinctive conical shape – tapering from the base to a flattened apex.
Pollination group B Picking time – October Storage until – March
Ashmead’s Kernel
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
A yellowish-green apple with brown russet. Yellowish white flesh with crisp & juicy with excellent flavour. Good disease resistance and keeping qualities. Very old variety, dating back to 1700s, producing excellent quality apples. Rootstock: MM106, M26, M25
Pollination group D Picking time – mid October Storage until – February
Beauty of Bath
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
A very early dessert apple picked from late July. Medium sized flat round apples largely flushed bright red interspersed with many large yellow lenticels. When ripe the apple is sweet with some acidity (1864, Bath) Rootstock: MM106
Pollination group – C Picking time – late July Storage until – does not keep
Blenheim Orange
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
An old favourite. Golden coloured striped dull red with a brown russet. Good mildew resistance. Produces large flat round apples with a distinctive nutty flavour. Being of a large size the apples can also be cooked. Rootstock: M26, MM106
Pollination group C Picking time – early October Storage until – January
Bloody Ploughman
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
An interesting apple that is conical in shape with distinct ribbing. Its blood red skin is a little tough, beneath it the sweet tasting flesh is heavily pink tinged.
Name also has a story behind it – apparently a ploughman was caught by a gamekeeper stealing apples on a Scottish estate and shot. His wife had the apples but threw them on a rubbish tip and one of the apples pips arose to be this variety! (central Scotland, 1883)
Pollination group – C Picking time – mid September Storage until – November
Bright Future
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
Introduced to celebrate 50 years of Garden Organic, the UKs largest organic gardening organisation. Flavour is good with a nice sweet acid combination. Rootstock: M26
Pollination group C Picking time – mid October Storage until – January
Cevaal
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
Bred from Cox crossed with earlier ripening Duchess of Oldenburg. The result is an excellent Cox like apple with an excellent rich honeyed flavour. Flesh crisp, juicy & tinged yellow. Attractive medium sized apples with yellow skin flushed red. A very good early season variety.
Consistently high yielding. Very good for organic growing. One of five recommended apples to come from a recently completed five year organic trial. Also known as Red Alkmene / Red Windsor being a redder sport of Alkmene / Early Windsor.
Bred in Germany in 1930s, Alkmene / Early Windsor was only introduced into the UK in 1972 with Cevaal following shortly after. Rootstock: MM106, M26, M9
Pollination group B. Picking time – early/mid September. Storage until – late October.
Charles Ross
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
Good-looking large dual-purpose apple. Yellow green flushed and striped warm orange red similar to Cox which is one of its parents. Round in shape maybe slightly conical. Sweet flavoured eater that bakes well. A trouble free reliable variety that will grow well in most parts of the UK. Rootstock: MM106, M26
Pollination group C Picking time – mid September Storage until – December
Court Pendu Plat
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
A very old variety maybe even dating back to the Romans! Produces medium sized flattish apples with green yellow skin flushed orange red that will keep into the New Year. Rich pineapple-like acidity. A slower growing variety hence offered on more vigorous M25 rootstock. Later flowering.
Pollination group – E Picking time – mid October Storage until – March
Cox Self Fertile
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
The same as Cox but benefits from being self fertile, though will crop even better if there are other apple varieties in the vicinity. Can crop better than its parent, Cox’s Orange Pippin, when pollination conditions are less favourable. (Bristol, 1975)
Pollination group – C Picking time – October Storage until – January
D’Arcy Spice
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
An old Essex variety dating back to the 1700s. Sweet yet acid taste. Gains a spicy flavour in hot dry summers. Apples appear flattened at either end and have quite distinct broad ribs from top to bottom. A russet with yellow-green skin and some brown flushing. Though the trees are of moderate vigour they are only small trees on the nursery.
Pollination Group – C Picking time – Late October Storage until – April
Discovery
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
Very good early eater – crisp juicy and sweet. One of the earliest dessert apples picked from mid August. Almost all covered bright crimson. The flesh can also be tinged pink around the edges. Consume quickly after picking as the apples will not keep. Disease- resistant and suitable for colder areas.
Pollination group – C Picking time – August Storage until – does not keep
Doddin
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
An unusual apple mostly found around Redditch, Worcestershire. The apples are bright green, smooth skinned and turn somewhat yellowish as they become ripe in late July / early August. They are small and somewhat elongated. Juicy and sweet. Ripening early they do not keep so should be consumed quickly. Rootstock: M26
Pollination group – C Picking time – early August Storage until – does not keep
Egremont Russet
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
Deservedly popular russet. Dry golden skin with large areas of brown russet. Often brownish red on the sunny side. Flat round in shape with flattened ends. Crisp flavour, nutty and sweet. A trouble-free variety. Rootstock: MM106, M26
Pollination group – B Picking time – late September Storage until – December
Ellisons Orange
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
An early dessert flushed brownish red with stripes of brighter red mixed in. Slightly conical in shape. Creamy white flesh has a rich flavour with a somewhat aniseed flavour. A hardy variety suitable for growing in the north and east. Rootstock: MM106, M26
Pollination group – D Picking time – September Storage until – October
Fiesta
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
Also known as ‘Red Pippin’, skin much flushed bright red. Good cropping. Fruit sweet and juicy with balancing acidity similar to Cox which is one of its parents. Always enjoyed at our Apple day events during October. Suitable for growing in most parts of the UK. This variety has some self fertility which is very uncommon in apples, but will always do better with other varieties around. Rootstock: MM106, M26, M9
Pollination group – C Picking time – late September Storage until – January
Fortune
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
A good garden variety of compact habit. Medium sized round apples largely coloured bright red. Mostly round in shape with some ribbing at the apex. Also known as Laxton's Fortune being bred at Laxton's Nursery, Bedford. Sweet, juicy with acidity. Hardy and suitable for the north and west. Rootstock: MM106, M26
Pollination group – C Picking time – mid September Storage until – October
Greensleeves
£16.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
A quite different dessert variety from most with pale green skin sometimes with a slight orange flush. Fruits crunchy and sweet when eaten fresh. Makes a roundish shape often with slight ribbing and distinct crowns at the apex. The pale skin makes the lenticels on the surface conspicuous. Rootstock: MM106, M26
Pollination group – C Picking time – mid September Storage until – October
