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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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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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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 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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Dwarf Bramley’s Seedling
Out of stock
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 Andre Savauge apple
Dwarf Andre Savauge apple is a large oblong shaped apple, heavily russeted, greenish crisp, tart aromatic flesh, an unusual looking apple which is well liked for cooking by those who try it, ripens mid season Ripens: March/April