Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Bardsey is a rare Welsh apple, ideal for heritage orchards and gardens with cool or maritime climates. Its pale green fruit is attractively striped with pink and has juicy, sweet, lightly lemon-scented flesh. It can be eaten fresh and cooks into a light, fluffy purée. The crop ripens early, but the apples generally keep only until late autumn.

Bardsey

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Bardsey is a hardy disease-resistant apple, discovered growing on an island off the west coast of Wales.

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1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

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Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

EM9 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 15344 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

The Bardsey apple is named after the island of Bardsey, off the coast of Wales, where it was discovered in 1998. It is a pretty apple with a pleasant flavour with some acidity, and a fairly crisp texture. The apples ripen in late August / early September, and can also be juiced, and they will cook down to a sweet puree.

The island of Bardsey has a cool, mild, maritime climate – which is a good environment for fungal infections, but the Bardsey apple seems to be very disease-resistant. It is therefore a good choice for wet climates of north and north-west Europe. Anecdotal evidence from growers outside the UK suggests it is also tolerant of sub-zero winter temperatures, as well as summer heat and drought stress.