Apple trees
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Pink Lady apple
A cross between Lady Williams and Golden Delicious the Pink Lady apple has a beautiful skin colour, sweet crisp, lovely flavour. Out of more than 10,000 apples in a West Australian breeding trial, this apple came out on top – that surely says something about its calibre Ripens: June/July Pollinate with: Jonathan, Berner Rosen, Cox's Orange, Pink Lady, Freyburg, Fuji, Granny Smith, Splendour, Sweet Coppin (cider), John Downie (crab)
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Lady William apple
An apple that really needs little introduction to Australia by now, a relative of the Pink Lady, the Lady William apple has similar crisp subacid qualities, ripening very late season- as late as July, and subsequently keeping a long time, even just stored in a box in the shed; variety is a cross between two Australian varieties – Granny Smith and Rokewood. It’s a very good cropper – our two year old espaliered tree has two smallish horizontal branches and a one metre main trunk which this year have fifty apples crammed on them (after having been thinned!) Ripens: June/July Pollinate with: Jonathan, Kidd's Orange Red, Freyburg, Fugi, Golden Delicious, Cox's Orange, Sturmer Pippin, Kingston Black (cider), Spectabilis (crab)
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Granny Smith apple
The Granny Smith apple needs no introduction really, green cooking apple with good acid content to retain and enhance flavours in cooking, discovered by Mrs Smith in Ryde, N.S.W. who apparently brought home gin cases from Sydney market and tipped the rotting apples in a nearby creek, later noticing a seedling apple growing in the same spot, from those inauspicious beginnings sprang Australia’s most famous cooking apple Ripens: June/July Pollinate with: Jonathan, Cox's Orange, Golden Delicious, Gala, Fuji, Freyburg, King David, Sundowner, Yapeen Seedling, Sturmer Pippin, Pink Lady, Sweet Coppin (cider)
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Twenty Ounce apple
The Twenty Ounce apple is one of the very largest sized fruit we know of, it barely fits in your hand (see picture below), good for drying, a fine cooking apple and good fresh eating as well, regular bearer of super sized fruits, mid season MM106 Rootstock Ripens: Feb/March Pollinate with: Jonathan, Lady Williams, Merton Worcester, Yapeen Seedling, Fuji, Gala, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith
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Dwarf Sundowner apple
Out of stock
Dwarf Sundowner apple matures in June, one of the latest apples, in between Pink Lady and Lady Williams, bright red striped skin, lovely sweet crisp apples' good keeper, grafted onto two metre high rootstocks to give small sized manageable trees Ripens: June Pollinate with: Jonathan, Lady Williams, Cox's Orange, Freyburg, Fuji, Granny Smith, Sturmer Pippin, Splendour, Stewart's Seedling, King David, Rokewood, Golden Delicious
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Sundowner apple
The Sundowner apple matures in June, one of the latest apples, in between Pink Lady and Lady Williams, bright red striped skin, lovely sweet crisp apples MM106 Rootstock Ripens: June Pollinate with: Jonathan, Lady Williams, Cox's Orange, Freyburg, Fuji, Granny Smith, Sturmer Pippin, Splendour, Stewart's Seedling, King David, Rokewood, Golden Delicious
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Ribston Pippin apple
Out of stock
Ribston Pippin apple is from the mid 1700's, said to be one of the parents of such famous apples as Cox's Orange Pippin and Sturmer Pippin, dense, quite acid yellow aromatic flesh, rich flavour, midseason harvest, triploid M106 Rootstock Ripens: March Pollinate with: Beauty of Bath, Red Braeburn, Vista Bella, Fenouillet Gris, Geeveston Fanny, Breakwell's Seedling (cider), Yarlington Mill (cider), Floribunda (crab) Triploid: needs 2-3 pollinators
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Dwarf Pome de Neige
Out of stock
Grafted to dwarfing rootstock to give a two metre tree, and known as the Snow apple, it has small round fruits, skin is striped red over gold, white flesh, crisp and juicy. Fresh eater with keeping qualities, suits many different climates
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Peasgood’s Nonsuch apple
Out of stock
Peasgood's Nonsuch apple is a popular and much loved apple from bygone years in Australia. Red striped on yellow green background, fruit grow quite large, coarse flesh, eats well fresh, and also a lovely cooker, useful in pies, dumplings, cider, juice, feed the pigs… Ripens: March/April Pollinate with: Democrat, Golden Noble, King of the Pippins, Michelin (cider), Orleans Reinette, King Cole, Summer Strawberry
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Dwarf Lord Lambourne apple
Suggested by some as a good easier growing substitute for the Cox’s Orange Pippin, where the Cox’s is difficult to grow, Dwarf Lord Lambourne apple has similar eating qualities, a lovely mixture of sweetness and acidity, juicy crisp flesh, ripens mid season, grafted to two metre high dwarfing rootstock Ripens: March/April Pollinate with: Beauty of Bath, Keswich Codlin, McIntosh, Red Braeburn, Tydeman's Early Worcester, Vista Bella, Yarlington Mill (cider)
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James Grieve apple
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James Grieve apple is a fresh eating apple, and also makes a sweet delicate stewed apple when picked early, fruit medium size, soft and juicy, subacid to sweet, very well liked for fine flavour, good keeper for an early apple, tree produces well without cross pollination, probably does better in cooler climates Ripens: Feb/March Pollinate with: Self fertile
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Jonathan apple
Jonathan apple is a seedling of Esopus Spitzenburg, small crisp hard apples with delicious flavour that has made this variety a popular commercial and backyard tree firstly in America and then Australia and the rest of the world, for nearly two hundred years Ripens: March/April Pollinate with: Berner Rosen, Cox's Orange, Freyberg, Fuji, Gala, Golden Delicous, Granny Smith, Golden Hornet (crab), Splendour, Rokewood, Merton Worcester, Pink Lady, Court of Wick
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Gravenstein apple
Out of stock
The Gravenstein apple is remembered fondly by many European people, good fresh eating, cooking and cider, needs to be left on the tree to develop full flavours, early ripener, lisp and aromatic Ripens: January Pollinate with: Beauty of Bath,Lord Lambourne, McIntosh, Red Braeburn, Vista Bella, Forfar Pippin, Egremont Russet, Golden Harvey Triploid: needs 2-3 pollinators
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Gala apple
The Gala apple is a very popular little modern apple throughout Australia, widely produced for commerce and successful in many different places, a lovely crisp aromatic and sweet apple with excellent flavour, orange/red striped Ripens: March Pollinate with: Jonathan, Lady Williams, Bonza, Merton Worcester, Pink Lady, Rokewood, Freyburg, Fuji, Granny Smith
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Fuji apple
Fuji apple is a Japanese apple and a modern commercial variety, but with eating qualities that appeal to many – sweet, juicy, one of the latest varieties harvested Ripens: June/July Pollinate with: Jonathan, Bonza, Cox's Orange, Freyburg, Gala, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Rokewood, Pink Lady, Sturmer Pippin, Splendour, Sundowner
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Freyburg apple
Out of stock
The Freyburg apple is a fresh eating apple, comes from an awesome heritage - genetically a cross between Cox's Orange Pippin and Golden Delicious, fruit yellow colour with lovely sweet and spicey flavour, tree smallish, harvests mid season but fruit hangs on well on the tree, winner of blind taste tests. Ripens: March/April Pollinate with: Jonathan, Lady Williams, Pink Lady, Merton Worcester, Rokewood, Berner Rosen, Bonza, Gala, Fuji, Granny Smith,
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Five Crown apple
Five Crown apple, also known as London Pippin, once widely grown in Australia, fresh eater and cooker, green skin flushed with red, crisp, brisk, good for drying, late harvest Ripens: late May Pollinate with: Brown Snout, Court Pendu Plat, Northern Spy, Boswell, Isaac Newton, Opalescent
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Cox’s Orange Pippin apple
Cox's Orange Pippin apple is perhaps the most famous of all the heritage apples – wonderful fresh eating, rich spicy nutty flavour, crisp, aromatic, perfect balance of sweetness and acidity, is said to do best in cooler areas but we have eaten some brilliant fruit from ours here in northern Victoria Ripens: Feb/March Pollinate with: Jonathan, Lady Williams, Berner Rosen, Bonza, Freyburg, Fuji, Pink Lady, Merton Worcester, Rokewood, Gala, Granny Smith, Sturmer Pippin
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Calville Blanc D’Hiver apple
Out of stock
The Calville Blanc D'Hiver apple is one of the very oldest apples still around, dating from the 1600's in France, famed for making delicious apple pies, very good cider addition, this variety also contains more Vitamin C than an orange Ripens: May/June
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Dwarf Calville Blanc D’Hiver apple
Dwarf Calville Blanc D'Hiver apple is one of the very oldest apples still around, dating from the 1600's in France, famed for making delicious apple pies, very good cider addition, this variety also contains more Vitamin C than an orange, grafted to two metre high dwarfing rootstock Ripens: May/June
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Blenheim Orange apple
Out of stock
Blenheim Orange apple is a much liked sweet nutty flavoured apple, with crumbly texture, medium to large sized fruits, skin has orange flush with red striping, considered by many to be one of the best dual purpose apples, harvest late Feb, makes a strong limbed tree with very hard wood – which was once used for making cog wheels for railways, very frost resistant, triploid Ripens: Late February Pollinate with: Jonathan, Lady Williams, Freyburg, Fuji, Gala, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Pink Lady, Splendour, Sturmer Pippin, Rokewood Triploid: need 2-3 pollinators