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.
- Sale!Out of stock
Ballerina type columnar apple - Originated in Holland in 1856, highly esteemed cooking and pie apple,
- Much liked sweet nutty flavoured apple, with
- Sale!Much liked sweet nutty flavoured apple, with
- Out of stockPerhaps the most famous of all the heritage apples
- Has mid sized red striped, crisp sweet fruit
- Also known as London Pippin, once
- Out of stockWinner of blind taste tests
- Out of stockEating qualities that appeal to many – sweet,
- Out of stockVery popular little modern apple throughout Australia,
- Out of stockGood fresh eating, cooking and cider
- Out of stockSmall crisp hard apples with delicious flavour that
- Sale!The Dwarf Mutsu apple has been bred from Golden Delicious, and coming out of Japan, very popular large apple, golden green skin, cooks to pale yellow pieces, heavy cropper. Often used for baking pies. Highly resistant to frost injury. Consider Grimes Golden, Liberty and/or White Pearmain for pollination. Triploid. Ripens: May/June
- Out of stockFresh eating, and also makes a sweet delicate
- Out of stockYellow fruits with crisp sweet flesh,
- Out of stockOne of our most asked after apples - a tiny
