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.
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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 -
A magnificent variety, Malus purpurea Aldenhamensis Crab Apple is best known for its long lasting red-purple flowers, complemented by purple-red follage in the Autumn. -
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One of the most ancient apples in our collection, dating back to possibly Roman times but.... -
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Geeveston Fanny was widely grown in Tasmania for many decades, this small... -
Jonagold is high quality American apple, developed in the 1940s, as its name suggests, this is.. -
Jonagold is high quality American apple, developed in the 1940s, as its name suggests, this is...
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King David is a handsome southern American apple, originating in.... -
Dwarf Fenouillet Gris apple is one of the more unusual heirloom apples, an ancient French variety from the 16th century, very sweet with hints of flavour like fennel and anise -
Most unusual heirloom apple, an ancient French variety from the 16th century, very.....
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Crab apple with a vast display of wine red flowers which are deeply fragrant in..... -
Julia's Blush is one of the newer more ornamental crab apples, with single deep pink flowers -
Malus Purpurea is an adaptable little crabapple with purplish leaves, an impressive floral display of red to reddish pink flowers -
Compact, columnar tree. Medium sized round fruit. Green skin with red developing on areas exposed to the sun. Crisp and juicy flesh with a good flavour when picked straight from the tree. Suitable for fresh fruit, drying and cooking -
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Also known as ‘Brandy Apple’, originating in..... -
Coming out of New Zealand, this cultivar makes a nice open..... -
A Japanese Crab, huge masses of crimson buds, opening to blooms with..... -
Grows into a fair sized tree when mature, has a very heavy crop of..... -
striped all over with yellow and blood red stripes, flesh soft, tender and juicy, sweet, fairly early harvest -
fruit medium sized, green, hard flesh, subacid flavour, good cooker -
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a relative of the Pink Lady, ripening very late season- as late as July, and subsequently keeping a long time,.. It’s a very good cropper..
