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 Monty’s Surprise apple
A Monty’s Surprise apple a day really does help keep the doctor away! This SPECIAL apple has been selected from scientific research reports that prove that it has some of the highest flavonoids and antioxidant levels both in the skin and flesh of any variety of apple found in the world (many times higher) .High micro nutrient levels exist in this special apple variety also. It has been reported by health organisations around the world that high levels of these naturally occurring compounds are beneficial to the human body in assisting the immune system to help fight obesity, sickness and disease. Monty's Surprise apples have extra large fruit size, they were found using natural plant selection methods, and they are a crisp, good eating apple and an excellent cooking apple
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Dwarf Frequin Rouge Amer French cider apple
Dwarf Frequin Rouge Amer French cider apple
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Dwarf Court of Wick apple
Court of Wick apple came out of Somerset, in 1790, red and gold with russetting, very fruity flavour with plenty of sweetness and acidity, very good fresh eater but also used to make a sweet cider, this is grafted onto m26 rootstock, which yields approximately 2 metre high trees
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Dwarf Sweet Coppin cider apple
Dwarf Sweet Coppin cider apple is an English cider apple originating in Devon, makes a very good sweet cider, ripens midseason. Ripens: March Pollinate with: Self fertile Type: Sweet
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Dwarf Huonville apple
Grafted onto dwarfing apple rootstock, Huonville apple is a very unusual pink fleshed apple which when cut open, reveals a red star in the middle of the paler flesh, also has a red stained wood in the cross section of the branches, flowers colours are a wonderful striking purple, leaves also have a purple tinge to them, it is possible to eat this apple fresh, unique sort of flavour, good for juice, but maintaining some crab apple flavour traits
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Huonville Stepover apple
Grafted onto miniature apple rootstock, these trees are great for training to Stepover apple forms, and using to edge gardens, walks, paths. Huonville Stepover apple is a very unusual pink fleshed apple which when cut open, reveals a red star in the middle of the paler flesh, also has a red stained wood in the cross section of the branches, flowers colours are a wonderful striking purple, leaves also have a purple tinge to them, it is possible to eat this apple fresh, unique sort of flavour, good for juice, but maintaining some crab apple flavour traits
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Pink Lady Stepover apple
Out of stock
Pink Lady Stepover apple is grafted onto miniature apple rootstock, these trees are great for training to small Stepover apple forms, and using to edge gardens, walks, paths etc, brightly coloured Pink Lady hangs well with nice red fruit, and gives real ornament in this stepover form Ripens: June/July Pollinate with: Rokewood, Merton Worcester, Berner Rosen, Cox's Orange, Jonathan, Freyburg, Fuji, Gala, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Sturmer Pippin
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Dwarf Hubbartston’s Nonsuch apple
Out of stock
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 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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Fuji Stepover apple
Out of stock
Fuji Stepover apple - standard Fuji fruit, but grown on a mini rootstock to give a tree suitable for 'Stepover' formation, which can be bent down low and trained as miniature borders around gardens, along driveways Ripens: June/July Pollinate with: Jonathan, Berner Rosen, Bonza, Freyburg, Fuji, Gala, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Pink Lady, Merton Worcester, Lady Williams
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Dwarf Jonagold apple
Dwarf Jonagold apple is high quality American apple, developed in the 1940s, as its name suggests, this is a cross between a Jonathan and a Golden Delicious and inherits many of the good qualities of both, the colouring is yellow of Golden Delicious, with large flushes of red, this is a crisp apple to bite into, with gleaming white flesh, flavour is sweet but with a lot of balancing acidity - a very pleasing apple to eat, popular commercial variety, genetically a triploid, meaning it is a poor pollinator of other apple varieties, and needs at least two different compatible pollinating apple varieties planted nearby. Ripens: May/June Pollinate with: Granny Smith, Sturmer Pippin, Lady Williams, Cox's Orange, Freyberg, Fuji, Gala, Golden Delicious, Pink Lady, Sweet Coppin(cider), Jack Humm(crab), Triploid: needs 2-3 pollinators
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Dwarf Somerset Redstreak cider apple
Originating in Somerset, Somerset Redstreak cider apple is a mild bittersweet apple. This means it should have gentle tannins with little acidity and a fruity taste, producing light and fruity cider. Ripens: March Pollinate with: Kingston Black, Sweet Coppin, Freyburg, Fuji, Gala Type: Bittersweet
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Dwarf King David cider apple
King David cider apple is a handsome southern American apple, originating in Arkansas, the flushed orange skin, reminscent of Jonathan, one of its probable parents, becomes much darker as the season progresses, till it becomes a brilliant dark red colour, the apples hang on the tree almost to winter, deep into autumn, and are at their best for eating at this point, also a useful cider variety with some good kick to it. Ripens: April/May Pollinate with: Kingston Black, Sweet Coppin, Freyburg, Fuji, Gala, Granny Smith, John Downie(crabapple), Cox's Orange, Lady Williams
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Dwarf Fenouillet Gris apple
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
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Dwarf Michelin cider apple
Dwarf Michelin cider apple has a late harvest, originating in France, fruit small to medium, greenish yellow, tree upright, good pollinator, makes a bittersweet cider. Ripens: March Pollinate with: Self fertile Type: Bittersweet
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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
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 Sundowner apple
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