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Sunset
Similar to Cox but more disease resistant and easier to grow. Flavour very good – crisp, juicy and sweet with sharpness.
Pollination group – C
Picking time – late September
Storage until – December -
Sweet Alford
A late sweet variety maturing in early November. Originated in Devon making a good quality sweet cider. Sometimes blended with other bittersweet varieties. Medium sized conical apples are flattened at ends. Yellow waxy skin flushed up to one third orange. Flesh eweet, white with no astringency.
Flowering time – mid May Harvest time – early November
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Stoke Red
An established bittersharp cider apple that can produce a very good cider of its own. Juice is pink and often scented. Stoke Red’s apples are small, flat round, red all over with dark red striping. Later ripening in November. Tends to be slow to come into bearing but when it does cropping is good
Flowering time – late May Harvest time – mid November
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Ten Commandments
Produces medium sized red apples that are good for cider but are also nice eaten., Name comes from the ten red spots seen around the core when sliced across on some of the apples. Alone it will not make the best cider so is best blended with a bittersweet variety.
Flowering time – early season Harvest time – late September
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Tewkesbury Baron
The apples ripen to a dark crimson. Skin has a speckled appearance and a waxy surface. A richly flavoured. Sweet but with sharpness
Pollination group – B
Picking time – late August
Storage until – October -
Tom Putt
An old variety popular in south west England. Sharp in taste as a dessert, can be cooked and often used for cider. Its cider is dry & sharp that can be sweetened by blending. A very distinct apple being flat round in shape with prominent angular ribs which terminate at the base in a crown. Skin largely covered crimson red which appears as broad striping.
Flowering time – early season Harvest – early September
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Tupstones
This dessert apple has many good qualities. the apples have a dark red almost purple skin colour. The flesh is yellowish white, sweet & firm.
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William Crump
Apples of excellent flavour – crisp and juicy with a nice balance of sweetness and acidity. Skin brown-crimson / purple flushed over yellow.
Pollination group – E
Picking time – mid October
Storage until – February -
Worcester Pearmain
Fruit almost completely flushed brilliant red. Sweet with a strawberry flavour. – allow fruit to fully ripen on tree for the best flavour.
Pollination group – C
Picking time – early September
Storage until – October -
Wyken Pippin
Flat round apples with smooth green skin with fine russet dots. Sometimes with some red flush. Juicy sweet and richly flavoured – a very nice apple.
Pollination group – C
Picking time – mid October
Storage until – January -
Yarlington Mill
A bittersweet variety making a very enjoyable cider on its own. Medium to large apples conical in shape that are usually around 2/3 flushed red. Flesh sweet, white, often reddened under flush, with some astringency. Picked / gathered late October to early November. Attractive flowers appear early/mid season.
Flowering time – early / mid season Harvest – late October