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 Rome Beauty apple
Dwarf Rome Beauty apple was an apple that originally got discovered as a sucker that was left to grow on an orchard tree, and turned out to be very good - late ripening, brilliant red skin, sweet flesh, quite dense, good fresh or cooked. Keeps well in storage, grafted to two metre high dwarfing rootstock
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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
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
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 Orleans Reinette apple
Out of stock
Dwarf Orleans Reinette apple is grafted onto dwarf rootstock, this is a great little apple which crops heavily every year at our place, ripens early - mid, terrific old fashioned apple flavour, Medium flat round apples flushed orange red with red stripes. Flesh is firm, sweet, aromatic and slightly nutty. Great fresh eater, hardy tough tree, this one's like an old friend - always there, year in, year out...
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Dwarf Summer Strawberry apple
Out of stock
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
Out of stock
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
Out of stock
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
Out of stock
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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Fuji Stepover apple
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 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 Stewart’s Seedling apple
Dwarf Stewart's Seedling apple, also known as Ballarat, (which is where it was originally discovered in about the 1870’s) bears medium sized green fruit, harder flesh, subacid flavour, very good cooker, said to have very good flavour as a jelly, late ripening, good keeper. Ripens: May/June Pollinate with: Jonathan, Pink Lady, Sturmer Pippin, Granny Smith, Gala, Freyburg, Cox's Orange, Lady Williams, Fuji, Golden Delicious, Merton Worcester, Berner Rosen
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Dwarf Pink Lady apple
Out of stock
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 Twenty Ounce apple
Out of stock
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 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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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 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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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