Cox’s Orange Pippin (Self Fertile)
A self fertile form of Cox’s Orange Pippin highly recommended for less than ideal Cox areas. Heavy crops of the best eating apple in the world.
Discovery
Worcester Pearmain x Beauty of Bath. Bright red flush. Crisp and juicy with a hint of strawberry. An excellent early dessert apple with good disease resistance.
Eden
Apple Eden is a new variety, non-browning apple. Crisp & sweet similar to the Spartan apple. Cooks like a Bramley apple. A perfect apple for juicing.
Egremont Russet
The flesh is cream, tinged yellow, sweet and firm with a rich nutty flavour. The usual russet to be found in shops.
Ellison’s Orange
Cox’s Orange Pippin x Caville Blanc (probably D’Été). Medium striped, red, juicy apple. Aniseed flavour develops after picking retaining its melting juicy flesh. Scab resistant.
Fiesta
Cox’s Orange Pippin x Idared. Rich, aromatic and sweet with a crisp texture. Excellent garden tree with Cox-like characteristics. Very heavy crops. Ideal for northern areas.
Fortune
Fortune, a very good quality, mid season dessert apple, similar to Cox’s Orange Pippin. Creamy white flesh, moderately firm with a coarse-texture, juicy, sweet aromatic flavour. Flavours best when left for longer on the tree to mature. Also known as … Read More
Gala
Gala is a bright coloured dessert apple, found in most supermarkets! Produces a good crop, small, crisp and juicy flavoured with a deep golden thin skin. Commercially grown versions ‘Mondial’ and ‘Royal’ Gala appear in the shops.
Golden Delicious
Well known crisp eater. Greenish-yellow turning gold. Sweet, honey flavour. Flavour is superior to imported fruit when grown in the UK.
Greensleeves
James Grieve x Golden Delicious. A reliable midseason variety. Pale, greenish-yellow. Crisp, tangy, easy to grow, and a good pollinator for other varieties. Self Fertile
Herefordshire Redstreak
A cider apple that at one time was unsurpassed. In its day it was often preferred to imported wines and poetry and song were often enlisted in its praises. It arose from a pip collected and grown by Charles I’s Ambassador to … Read More