Our Variety Assessment

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

Blenheim Orange is a large English dual-purpose apple with a rich sweet-sharp and slightly nutty flavour. It becomes excellent for fresh eating after storage and is also particularly good for pies and baking. The tree is vigorous and requires adequate space. As a triploid and poor pollinator, it needs two other compatible apple varieties growing nearby.

Blenheim Orange

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Blenheim Orange is a classic English dual-purpose apple – useful for both dessert and culinary purposes.

Choose your tree form

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

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Apple rootstock options

Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

EM9 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

G11 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 4307 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Blenheim Orange is a popular traditional English apple variety. Although it can be eaten fresh if you like a sharp flavoured apple, it is best considered a culinary apple, and it cooks to a stiff puree. It grows into a big impressive tree and makes a good feature tree in a larger garden.

This is slow-growing long-lived variety which takes a while to get into its stride. The English pomologist Robert Hogg, writing at the end of the 19th century, noted that Blenheim Orange “… when it becomes a little aged, it bears regular and abundant crops“.

Blenheim Orange is believed to date back to early 18th century. It was discovered growing near Blenheim Palace in England. The parentage is unknown.