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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Perhaps the most famous of all the heritage apples -
Beautiful skin colour, sweet crisp, lovely flavour. -
green cooking apple with good acid content to retain and enhance flavours in cooking -
Eating qualities that appeal to many – sweet, -
King David is a handsome southern American apple, originating in.... -
Green cooking apple with good acid content to retain and enhance flavours in cooking -
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Sale!
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Also known as ‘Brandy Apple’, originating in..... -
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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.. -
Very popular little modern apple throughout Australia, -
Bright red striped skin, lovely sweet crisp apples -
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