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74 varieties
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Categories
Apples
43
Cooking apples
20
Eating apples
36
Cherries
6
Cider apples
4
Pears
11
Dessert pears
9
Cooking pears
2
Plums
11
Stock availability
All
74
Available to pre-order
56
Not in stock
0
Graft to order
18
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
26
Average
36
Experienced
5
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
8
Partially self-fertile
8
Not self-fertile
54
Flowering group
?
1
2
2
10
3
37
4
18
5
2
6
4
Pollinating others
?
Good
6
Average
38
Poor
23
Ploidy
?
Diploid
38
Triploid
19
Fruit bearing
?
Spur-bearer
44
Partial tip-bearer
6
Tip-bearer
1
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
64
Mild damp climates
21
Warm climates
21
Using
Picking period
mid-June
1
late June
2
early July
3
mid-July
2
late July
1
early August
3
mid-August
3
late August
7
early September
9
mid-September
9
late September
10
early October
14
mid-October
5
late October
6
early November
5
mid-November
1
Picking season
?
Very early
1
Early
11
Mid
14
Late
34
Very late
13
Season of use
?
1-3 days
12
1 week
12
2-3 weeks
14
1-2 months
16
3 months or more
15
Cropping
?
Heavy
15
Good
51
Light
6
Food uses
Eating fresh
59
Culinary
33
Traditional cooker
11
Dual purpose
19
Juice
19
Hard cider
8
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
28
Average
28
Poor
4
Scab
?
Very resistant
11
Some resistance
18
Some susceptibility
16
Canker
Very resistant
2
Some resistance
6
Some susceptibility
12
Mildew
?
Very resistant
2
Some resistance
12
Some susceptibility
14
Bacterial canker
Silverleaf
Some susceptibility
1
Very susceptible
1
Fruit splitting
Some resistance
1
Some susceptibility
4
Fire blight
Some resistance
6
Some susceptibility
3
Very susceptible
4
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
1
Belgium
14
Canada
2
Czech Republic
1
Denmark
1
France
40
Germany
1
Japan
2
Netherlands
4
New Zealand
1
Russia
4
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
13
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1
1600 - 1649
3
1650 - 1699
1
1700 - 1749
1
1750 - 1799
4
1800 - 1849
16
1850 - 1899
15
1900 - 1949
5
1950 - 1999
4
2000
1
Flowering month
April
1
Flesh colour
White
25
Cream
5
Golden / Yellow
6
Pink / Red
2
Dark red
1
Light green
2
Fruit colour
Blue - dark
3
Brown
1
Crimson
3
Gold
4
Green
2
Green - light
10
Green / Red
9
Green / Yellow
13
Orange / Red
3
Orange flush
12
Pink
2
Purple
3
Purple - light
1
Red
7
Red - dark
5
Red / Black
2
Red / Green
3
Red striped
1
Russet
12
Yellow
7
Yellow / Orange
4
Fruit size
Small
6
Average
25
Large
19
Very large
2
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Varieties list
Apple trees
Ananas Reinette
Ananas Reinette has small pretty yellow apples with a distinctive pineapple flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Antonovka 1.5 pound
Known by many different names, this is a sport variation of Antonovka, noted for its very large apples.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Argiliere
A mid-season dessert apple from the north of France.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Ascahire
A large reliable from northern France which is particularly good for juicing.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Baguette d'Hiver
A traditional late season red dessert apple from northern France.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 6
Apple trees
Baguette Violette
Baguette Violette is a traditional French late-season dessert apple.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Belle de Boskoop
Belle de Boskoop is a popular large dual-purpose apple from the Netherlands.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Belle Fleur de France
A traditional large dual-purpose late-season apple from Northern France.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Belle Fleur de France Rouge
A sport or seedling of Belle Fleur de France, with a darker red skin coloration.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Berner Rosen
Berner Rosen is an attractive dessert apple from Switzerland.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pear trees
Beurre d'Anjou
Beurre d'Anjou is a highly-regarded traditional French dessert pear with melting sweet flesh.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pear trees
Beurre Lebrun
Beurre Lebrun is a high-quality French mid-season dessert pear, with a fine sweet flesh.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pear trees
Beurre Superfin
A traditional French 19th century pear, widely considered one of the best for flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Cherry trees
Blanc Nez
A bigarreau -type white cherry from northern France.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Cherry trees
Blanche d'Harcigny
Blanche d'Harcigny is white sweet cherry from northern France, which ripens in late June / early July.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Blenheim Orange
Blenheim Orange is a classic English dual-purpose apple - useful for both dessert and culinary purposes.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Brabant Bellefleur
A traditional late-season dessert apple with a sweet flavor, and good keeping qualities.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Bramley's Seedling
Bramley is the essential English cooking apple, famous for its rich sharp acidity.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Cabarette
A traditional very-late season dessert apple, found in northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Plum trees
Coe's Golden Drop
Coe's Golden Drop is a large oval gage from the 18th century, noted for its excellent flavour.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Colapuy
A traditional late-season dessert apple from France with a good sweet / sharp balance.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pear trees
Conference
Conference is a popular and reliable English pear, well-suited to temperate climates in north-west Europe.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Plum trees
Count Althann's Gage
Count Althann's Gage has a richer and more plum-like flavour than other gages.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Court Pendu Rouge
Court Pendu Rouge is a very old French dessert apple with an aromatic pear-drop flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Cripps Pink
Cripps Pink is is a well-known modern apple variety, well-suited to the warmer apple-growing regions.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Cider apple trees
Dabinett
Dabinett is a traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice.
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Apple trees
Directeur Lesage
A traditional and heavy-cropping early-season apple variety from Belgium.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Discovery
Discovery is a popular early-season English apple variety, with a juicy sharp flavour.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Flanders Reinette
An ancient dual-purpose apple variety, found across southern Belgium and northern France.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Fuji
Fuji is one of the most apple varieties in the world, renowned for its clean sweet flavour.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Gaillarde
A traditional late-season high quality dessert apple from northern France.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Golden Pippin
One of the oldest English apples, used for cooking and eating, with a fruity lemon-like flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Gravenstein
Gravenstein is a high-quality early-season eating and cooking apple, with an excellent strong apple flavour.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 1
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Cherry trees
Gros Bigarreau de la Groise
Gros Bigarreau de la Groise is red sweet cherry from northern France, which ripens in late June / early July.
Cherry trees
Gros Cerise Blanche de Verchocq
Gros Cerise Blanche de Verchocq is a white cherry, maturing in early July.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Cherry trees
Guigne Noire de Ruesnes
Guigne Noire de Ruesnes is a dark red sweet cherry which ripens in early July.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Cherry trees
Hedelfingen
An old late-season sweet cherry from Germany.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Jacques Lebel
A high quality French cooking apple with a crisp juicy acidic flesh.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Cider apple trees
Kingston Black
Kingston Black is one of the premier English cider varieties and produces a bittersharp juice.
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Lanscailler
A traditional dual-purpose apple, particularly good for cooking and juicing.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Pear trees
Legipont
Legipont or Fondante de Charneu is a traditional Belgian dessert pear, ripening in mid-September.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Plum trees
Madeleine
A traditional French dual-purpose purple plum.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pear trees
Marguerite Marillat
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Marie Doudou
A dual-purpose late-season French apple variety with a good sweet-sharp flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Cider apple trees
Michelin
Michelin is a traditional French cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice.
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Plum trees
Mirabelle de Nancy
Mirabelle de Nancy is a traditional Mirabelle, originating from north-east France.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Plum trees
Monsieur Hatif
Monsieur Hatif is a traditional dual-purpose plum variety, with blue / purple skin and golden flesh
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Apple trees
Monty's Surprise
A recent New Zealand apple variety which is noted for higher than usual levels of anti-cancer compounds.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Mutsu
Mutsu is a high quality dual-purpose apple from Japan, with a good flavour for eating fresh, and also sharp enough for cooking.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Plum trees
Noberte
Noberte is a traditional culinary plum, ideal for making jams and plum tarts.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Apple trees
Oksana
Oksana is a pretty red-flushed apple with a very sweet flavour.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Ontario
A juicy dual-purpose apple from Canada.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Plum trees
Oullins Gage
Oullins Gage is self-fertile, quite easy to grow, and the plums have a lovely sweet flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Apple trees
Peasgood's Nonsuch
Peasgood Nonsuch is a highly-regarded old-fashioned English cooking apple.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Pear trees
Poire de Livre
Poire de Livre is an ancient culinary pear from the north of France.
Pear trees
President Heron
President Heron is a high-quality French dessert pear, a good choice for the home orchard.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Red Windsor
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Red Windsor is one of the easiest to grow of all dessert apple trees, and with a pleasant apple flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Plum trees
Reine Claude Doree
A high-quality yellow-green gage, and usually more productive than other green gages.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Plum trees
Reine Claude Rouge Hative
This is one of the earliest dessert plums, ripening in mid-July.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Reinette Abry
A traditional dual-purpose yellow/green apple from northern France.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Reinette de France
A highly-regarded traditional French dessert apple.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Reinette de Waleffe
A highly-regarded traditional Belgian dessert apple with a good sweet / sharp aromatic flavour.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Reinette des Capucins
An ancient French country apple variety, ideal for traditional French cookery and for eating fresh.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Reinette Descardre
Reinette Descardre is a good quality Belgian dessert apple with a sweet fruity flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Reinette Rouge Etoilee
A popular traditional eating apple from the Low Countries.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Apple trees
Roberts Crab
Roberts Red or Roberts Crab is an unusual red-fleshed crab-apple, with dark pink blossom, and purple fruits.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Apple trees
Saint Edmund's Russet
Saint Edmund's Russet is considered one of the best English russet apples.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Pear trees
Saint Mathieu
Saint Mathieu is a traditional Franco-Belgian cooking pear.
Plum trees
Sanguine de Wismes
Sanguine de Wismes is an unusual red-fleshed dessert plum.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 1
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Apple trees
Spartan
Spartan is a McIntosh style apple, easy to grow, crunchy, with a sweet delicate wine-like flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Pear trees
Sucree de Montlucon
Sucree de Montlucon is an exceptionally sweet dessert pear.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pear trees
Triompe de Vienne
Triomphe de Vienne is a pretty dessert pear, with juicy melting sweet flesh.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Plum trees
Victoria
Victoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Apple trees
White Transparent
A traditional very early-season dual-purpose apple, which is also very winter-hardy.
Picking season: Very early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile