Apple trees this year include a great many unusual and old-fashioned fruits (we have over 100 varieties in our orchard on the farm). We offer a selection of these in our catalogue each year, along with some of the best of our modern apples.
Apple trees this year come grafted on MM106 rootstocks, a semi dwarfing rootstock which will grow to somewhere between 2.5 and 3.5 metres high, and are very easy to keep pruned lower than this if you want to. Dwarf apple trees are also offered this year, grafted onto M26 rootstocks, which give a two metre high tree – these are not listed here – you need to look in the dwarf apple trees section of the shop to find them.
Some apple tree varieties are labelled ‘triploid’, meaning they do not have viable pollen to cross pollinate another tree, so don’t choose one of these with only one other variety, or the triploid will get pollinated, but the other variety won’t – you will need a third variety to do this. Why bother with triploid apples then? Because they represent some of the best apples we know.
Dwarf Rome Beauty apple was an apple that originally got discovered as a sucker that was left to grow on an orchard tree, and turned out to be very good - late ripening, brilliant red skin, sweet flesh, quite dense, good fresh, also bakes well and great apple sauce, Keeps well in storage- Bonza was a chance seedling found in Batlow and introduced in the 1950s. The Bonza variety has a green/cream background colour under a red blush. The variety is characterised by a very white firm flesh with a sweet flavour, and is particularly good for cutting and in salads as it tends to keep its colour after being cut. It is a good pollinator for Delicious and Red Delicious. Application: Eating, salads, drying. Harvest: March-Aprll.
- Compact, columnar tree. A late dessert apple with a crisp texture. Skin colour is flushed red over a green ground cover. Crisp and juicy. Excellent flavour with a slight tang. White spring flowers, with splashes of pale pink. . Matures mid to late March, grows to 600 mm wide, and 3.5 metres high.
- Waltz Ballerina apple is a compact, narrow, columnar tree, medium to large round-conical fruit with a solid red skin on exposed areas, crisp and juicy
- Rome Beauty apple was an apple that originally got discovered as a sucker that was left to grow on an orchard tree, and turned out to be very good - late ripening, brilliant red skin, sweet flesh, quite dense, good fresh, also bakes well and great apple sauce, Keeps well in storage
- One of the most ancient apples in our collection, dating back to possibly Roman times but....
Jonagold is high quality American apple, developed in the 1940s, as its name suggests, this is...
- Out of stockKing David is a handsome southern American apple, originating in....
- King David is a handsome southern American apple, originating in....
