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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.
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
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
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
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
Herefordshire Russet®
£18.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
A new Russet variety. Medium sized apples with a rich Cox like flavour. Trouble free variety that yields well. The apples are mostly round and the skin has a warm golden colour. A really good new introduction offering a different appearance to mostly red flushed desserts. Rootstock: MM106, M26.
Pollination group – C Picking time – late September Storage until – January
Howgate Wonder
£18.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
Of all the apples we grow Howgate Wonder can produce the largest. Apples round conical in shape striped orange red. Sub acid in flavour, easily cooking to a fluff. Can be eaten as a dessert apple too but probably best sliced first because of its size! Grows well in all parts of the UK.
Pollination group – D Picking time – early October Storage until – March
Kidd’s Orange Red
£18.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
Mid season dessert apple of very good flavour – sweet, juicy & aromatic. Apples crimson flushed with small areas of russet which contribute to its distinct appearance. Medium sized conical apples. Arose in New Zealand as a result of a breeding programme involving the best English & North American apples, Cox being the English apple. Rootstock: MM106, M26.
Pollination group – C Picking time – Early October Storage until – January
Lord Lambourne
£18.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
A regular heavy cropping apple. At its best late September, early October – of excellent refreshing taste, sweet & juicy. Flushed and striped red over green yellow base. Apples round, slightly conical and smooth skinned. Compact grower, good for small gardens. Lord Lambourne fruits partially tip-bearing, but grows well as an espalier.
Pollination group – B Picking time – September Storage until – November
Pitmaston Pineapple
£18.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
A quite different and distinctive apple. Small golden yellow apples, oblong conical in shape covered with a fine russet. Sweet yet sharp. Honeyed flavour and nicely scented, but any pineapple flavour is difficult to distinguish. A neglected variety because of the apples small size, but this is a feature in itself. A variety well worth growing. A fruiting tree in the autumn is an impressive sight with the golden apples contrasting with the yet to fall leaves.
Pollination group – C Picking time – early October Storage until – December
Ribston Pippin
£18.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
A well known variety. Produces medium to large round conical apples largely covered brownish orange with broad red stripes. Nice flavour, sweet with acidity. A triploid variety so though accepting pollen from other varieties will not provide any. High vitamin C content. Though keeping until December the apples will be more enjoyable if eaten before then. Rootstock: MM106 & M26.
Pollination group – B Picking time – early October Storage until – December
Rosemary Russet
£18.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
Not the usual Russet – the russetting is partial and the apples are often flushed orange with some red. Of very good flavour with a sweet yet sour flavour. Juicy. Medium sized apples conical in shape often with distinct ribs and sometimes lop sided. Rootstock: MM106, M26.
Pollination group – C Picking time – late September Storage until – March
Saturn
£18.00Availability: In stockOut of stock
Developed by the East Malling Research Station, Kent and introduced in 1997. Bred with disease resistance in mind from an unnamed disease resistant variety and a sport of Golden Delicious. The result are smooth medium sized conical apples flushed mostly dark red. When eaten the apples are juicy and sweet with some acidity. A nice traditional apple taste. Rootstock: MM106
Pollination group – C Picking time – late September Storage until – January
