Dwarf Apple Trees
Dwarf Apple trees this year are grafted onto M26 dwarfing rootstocks, which yield a tree of around 2 metres at full maturity
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Dwarf McIntosh Apple
Dwarf McIntosh apple is grafted onto two metre high dwarfing rootstock, making a very manageable tree for backyards and small spaces, McIntosh was once widely planted in the commercial apple industry throughout Australia, McIntosh apple yields large sized crisp red apples of very fine appearance and eating quality, useful fresh or cooked, reliable cropper, ripens over quite a number of weeks for gradual picking
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Dwarf Hubbartston’s Nonsuch apple
Dwarf Hubbartston's Nonsuch apple makes a two metre high tree, and produces large fruit, which ripen midseason, good flavour, great cooking. Ripens: April
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Dwarf Sturmer Pippin apple
Dwarf Sturmer Pippin apple, one of the latest apples left hanging on the tree - in colder places it has been picked as late as mid August, good cooker/eater and also very good addition to cider brews, flesh yellow, firm, crisp, very juicy, brisk and rich sugary flavour, should be kept on the tree as long as possible to let it reach its peak flavours, heavy bearer
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Dwarf Summer Strawberry apple
Dwarf Summer Strawberry apple is grafted onto a dwarf rootstock, this fresh eating apple has fairly small sized fruits, striped all over with yellow and blood red stripes, flesh soft, tender and juicy, sweet, fairly early harvest, one of the few early apples to really do well here in our hot northern Victorian summer, said to do best in fertile soils, originating in Australia in the late 1800’s
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Dwarf Freyburg apple
Dwarf 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
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Dwarf Lady William apple
The Dwarf Lady William apple really needs little introduction to Australia by now, a relative of the Pink Lady, with 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!)
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Dwarf Cox’s Orange Pippin apple
Dwarf tree version of perhaps the most famous of all the heritage apples – the Dwarf Cox's Orange Pippin apple is a 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
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Dwarf Court Pendu Plat apple
Dwarf Court Pendu Plat apple is one of the most ancient apples in our collection, dating back to possibly Roman times but it was definitely grown in fifteenth century England, fruit small in size, russeted but with a purple/pink flush, the flesh is crisp, rich, fruity and perfumed. It mellows to a sweet and fully flavoured apple after being stored, good keeper. Late flowering (thus avoiding frosts) earned it the title of ‘Wise Apple'. Ripens: May/June Pollinate with: Brown Snout, Stoke Red(cider), Isaac Newton, Boswell
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Dwarf Geeveston Fanny apple
Dwarf Geeveston Fanny apple, makes a two metre tree at full maturity.This variety was widely grown in Tasmania for many decades, small reddish-purple apple with a sweetly flavoured white flesh is ideal for both cooking and as a dessert apple, very popular in the 1970s, important commercially in part because of it resistance to disease, one of the favourites of Clive Winmill (who owned the Badgers Keep collection of over two thousand apples) Ripens: March/April Pollinate with: Beauty of Bath, Keswick Codlin, Lord Lambourne, McIntosh, Red Braeburn, Tydeman's Early Worcester, Vista Bella, Egremont Russet, Fenouillet Gris, Forfar Pippin
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Dwarf Pink Lady apple
A cross between Lady Williams and Golden Delicious. The Dwarf Pink Lady apple has 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 M26 Rootstock
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Dwarf Granny Smith apple
Out of stock
Dwarf 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 found in them 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 M26 Rootstock
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Dwarf Twenty Ounce apple
Dwarf Twenty Ounce apple comes as a small two metre tree, but it is one of the very largest sized fruit we know of, it barely fits in your hand, good for drying, a fine cooking apple and good fresh eating as well, regular bearer of super sized fruits, mid season M26 Rootstock Ripens: Feb/March Pollinate with: Jonathan, Lady Williams, Merton Worcester, Yapeen Seedling, Fuji, Gala, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith
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Dwarf Pome de Neige
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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Dwarf Orleans Reinette
Medium flat round apples flushed orange red with red stripes. Flesh is firm, sweet, aromatic and slightly nutty. Dessert. Can also be cooked when it retains its shape. M26 Rootstock
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Dwarf Golden Delicious apple
The Dwarf Golden Delicious apple is a well known apple in Australia, shiny yellow to gold thin skinned fruit with refreshing light flavour, sweet crisp flesh and plenty of juice, best eaten raw, very reliable
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Dwarf Apple Gala
The Dwarf Apple Gala is a two metre high version of the very popular Gala apple which is now grown right throughout Australia, widely produced for commerce and successful in many different places, copes well with our hot summers, a lovely crisp aromatic and sweet apple with excellent flavour, orange/red striped
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Dwarf 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 - this one comes grafted onto a dwarfing rootstock which will keep the tree to a height of approximately 2 metres at maturity 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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Dwarf Bramley’s Seedling
Probably the most well known, and one of the most sought after of the English cooking apples, tart acid flesh with lovely tangy lemon flavour when cooked, large apples, shape varies, ripening late, good keeper, triploid
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Dwarf Berner Rosen Apple
Dwarf apple Berner Rosen grows to two metres tall, is a deep red coloured apple with a bluish bloom on the skin, late harvesting, very good fresh eater Ripens: April/May Pollinate with various apples, including: Jonathan, Kidd's Orange Red, Lady Williams, Bonza, Cox's Orange, Merton Worcester, Pink Lady, Freyburg, Fuji, Gala, Granny Smith, Rokewood