Dessert Apples- grid
- list
Showing all 16 results
- grid
- list
Showing all 16 results
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. Delivery cost: based on quantity ordered. See the How to Order page for more details.
Apple trees are dispatched between late November and March when dormant.
You are welcome to order now. We will acknowledge your order and email you an Order Confirmation in October when we take payment, before being in contact to arrange delivery or collection from late November.
Blenheim Orange
£19.50Availability: 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.
Pollination group C Picking time – early October Storage until – January
Bloody Ploughman
£19.50Availability: 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
£19.50Availability: 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: MM106.
Pollination group C Picking time – mid October Storage until – January
Charles Ross
£19.50Availability: 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.
Pollination group C Picking time – mid September Storage until – December
Christmas Pippin ®
£19.50Availability: 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
Cox Self Fertile
£19.50Availability: 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
Fiesta
£19.50Availability: 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.
Pollination group – C Picking time – late September Storage until – January
Fortune
£19.50Availability: 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®
£19.50Availability: 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
Kidd’s Orange Red
£19.50Availability: 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
Pitmaston Pineapple
£19.50Availability: 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
Rajka
£19.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
Medium sized attractive smooth bright red apples. Yellowish firm but juicy flesh of excellent flavour – sweet, aromatic with a hint of strawberry. Regular cropping and disease resistant. Always popular at events we are at in the Autumn.
Pollination group – C Picking time – late September Storage until – January
Rosemary Russet
£19.50Availability: 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
£19.50Availability: 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
Scotch Bridget
£19.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
A very useful dual purpose apple that often thrives in less than ideal conditions. Quite large round conical red flushed apples that are often lop sided with obvious unequal ribbing which can make for odd shaped fruit. Do not let this put you off because early on when sharp the apples can be cooked, later on becoming sweeter and enjoyable as a dessert. (1851, Scotland)
Pollination group – C Picking time – early October Storage until – January
Spartan
£19.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
A very distinct apple with its round conical shape and maroon coloured skin colour. Another feature is that the skin often has a bloom which can easily be polished off. Sometimes grown as commercial variety but very good in the garden. Often heavily fruiting so if thinned early summer larger apples will be produced. The flesh is white and of good flavour with hints of strawberry and melon!
Pollination group – C Picking time – early October Storage until – January
