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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.
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.
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 March when dormant.
We have now brought sales to an end for winter 2021-22 with dormancy coming to an end. We are now looking forward to growing a fresh crop for winter 2022-23 which we will make available to reserve from July well ahead of supply from late November.
Adam’s Pearmain
£18.00Availability: 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. A partial tip-bearer but grows well as an espalier.
Pollination group B Picking time – October Storage until – March
Ashmead’s Kernel
£18.00Availability: 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
£18.00Availability: 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
£18.00Availability: 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.
Pollination group C Picking time – early October Storage until – January
Bright Future
£18.00Availability: 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: MM106.
Pollination group C Picking time – mid October Storage until – January
Cevaal
£18.00Availability: 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.
Pollination group B. Picking time – early/mid September. Storage until – late October.
Charles Ross
£18.00Availability: 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.
Pollination group C Picking time – mid September Storage until – December
Chiver’s Delight
£18.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
A colourful dessert apple, Chivers Delight was raised about 100 years ago. A spur bearer that is picked around mid October having a sweet flavour with slight acidity. When ripe the apples are golden yellow with red mottling overlying the base colour.
Pollination group – D Picking time – mid October Storage until – January
Christmas Pippin ®
£18.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
A recent introduction Christmas Pippin that has been described as the ‘garden Cox’ – more trouble free with heavy crops of high quality sweet apples. Skin flushed red over green, yellow base colour making it a good looking apple.
Pollination group – C Picking time – early October Storage until – December
Court Pendu Plat
£18.00Availability: 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.
Pollination group – E Picking time – mid October Storage until – March
Cox Self Fertile
£18.00Availability: 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
£18.00Availability: 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
£18.00Availability: 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. A partial tip-bearer but grows well as an espalier.
Pollination group – C Picking time – August Storage until – does not keep
Doddin
£18.00Availability: 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.
Pollination group – C Picking time – early August Storage until – does not keep
Egremont Russet
£18.00Availability: 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, M25
Pollination group – B Picking time – late September Storage until – December
Ellison’s Orange
£18.00Availability: 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
Pollination group – D Picking time – September Storage until – October
Fiesta
£18.00Availability: 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.
Pollination group – C Picking time – late September Storage until – January
Fortune
£18.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
A good garden variety of compact habit. Fortune produces 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.
Pollination group – C Picking time – mid September Storage until – October
