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234 varieties
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Categories
Apples
105
Cooking apples
27
Eating apples
66
Red-flesh apples
10
Cider apples
25
Crab-apple trees
1
Apricots
5
Cherries
15
Cornelian cherries
7
Medlars
2
Mulberries
7
Pears
35
Asian pears
3
Dessert pears
27
Cooking pears
3
Perry pears
2
Peaches
3
Persimmons
4
Plums
17
Damsons
4
Mirabelles
1
Gages
7
Quinces
4
Figs
2
Inter-specific fruit trees
3
Kiwi
3
Saskatoons
5
Melliferous trees
3
Rootstocks
17
Apple rootstocks
6
Pear rootstocks
3
Plum rootstocks
2
Cherry rootstocks
3
Citrus rootstocks
3
Stock availability
All
234
In stock
175
Not in stock
59
Graft to order
0
Rootstocks
M9
52
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G.11
1
?
M116
45
?
Gisela 5
8
?
MM111
46
?
BA29
20
?
Bittenfelder
15
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Crataegus
1
?
Gisela 6
12
?
D.lotus
4
?
St. Julien A
14
?
PyroDwarf
17
?
Cornus seedling
7
?
D.virginiana
2
?
Kirchensaller
8
?
Mazzard Alkavo
6
?
Myrobalan
10
?
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
57
Average
110
Experienced
20
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
49
Partially self-fertile
22
Not self-fertile
132
Flowering group
?
1
5
2
30
3
78
4
46
5
12
6
9
Disease resistance
?
Good
74
Average
82
Poor
19
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
7
Early
40
Mid
47
Late
74
Very late
30
Season of use
?
Does not keep
1
1-3 days
41
1 week
26
2-3 weeks
40
1-2 months
29
3 months or more
37
Food uses
Eating fresh
154
Culinary
95
Traditional cooker
16
Dual purpose
32
Juice
52
Hard cider
38
Drying
5
Edible fruits
5
Not suitable for humans
1
Astringency
Astringent
4
Climate
Cold hardiness (USDA)
?
Zone 3 (-40C)
9
Zone 4 (-34C)
25
Zone 5 (-29C)
32
Zone 6 (-23C)
8
Zone 7 (-18C)
4
Zone 8 (-12C)
4
Zone 9 (-7C)
1
Zone 10 (-1C)
1
Summer average maximum temperatures
?
Cold (< 20C / 67F)
22
Cool ( 20-24C / 68-75F)
101
Warm (25-30C / 76-85F)
102
Hot (>30C / 86F)
22
Chill requirement
?
Low-chill
14
High-chill
3
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
4
Belgium
19
Canada
6
China
2
Czech Republic
2
Denmark
1
France
70
Germany
10
Italy
1
Japan
6
Korea
1
Netherlands
5
New Zealand
4
Poland
3
Russia
6
Switzerland
3
Turkey
1
Ukraine
8
United Kingdom
43
United States
25
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1
1600 - 1649
6
1650 - 1699
2
1700 - 1749
3
1750 - 1799
9
1800 - 1849
29
1850 - 1899
33
1900 - 1949
26
1950 - 1999
31
2000
5
Flesh colour
White
32
Cream
13
Golden / Yellow
9
Orange
7
Pink / Red
9
Dark red
2
Light green / Yellow
3
Fruit colour
Black
4
Blue - dark
11
Brown
5
Crimson
3
Gold
8
Green
8
Green - light
24
Green / Red
11
Green / Yellow
22
Orange
6
Orange / Red
28
Orange flush
26
Pink
2
Purple
4
Purple - light
1
Red
21
Red - dark
15
Red / Black
9
Red / Green
5
Red striped
4
Russet
22
Yellow
11
Yellow / Orange
8
Yellow / Red
4
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Varieties list
Adams Pearmain
Adams' Pearmain is a popular Victorian-era English apple with a distinctive 'pearmain' shape.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Akane
Akane is an attractive early-season eating apple with a good pedigree and a sweet/sharp flavour.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Alkmene
Alkmene is a mid-season apple from Germany, related to to Cox but with a more robust flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Amere de Berthencourt
Amere de Berthencourt is a traditional French bittersweet cider apple.
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Amere Nouvelle
Amere Nouvelle is a traditional French bittersweet cider apple.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Amsden June
An early-ripening white-fleshed freestone peach from the USA.
Picking season: Very early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
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
Argiliere
A mid-season dessert apple from the north of France.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Aromatnaya
A heavy-cropping Russian quince, for cooking and eating fresh.
Ascahire
A large reliable cooking apple from northern France which is particularly good for juicing.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Ashmead's Kernel
Ashmead's Kernel is a traditional English eating apple with a distinctive pear-like flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Avalon Pride
Avalon Pride is a disease-resistant yellow-fleshed peach, well-suited to growing outdoors in northern Europe.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
BA29
BA29 is a semi-vigorous precocious high-yielding rootstock, compatible with many but not all European pears.
Baguette d'Hiver
A traditional late season red dessert apple from northern France.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 6
Baguette Violette
Baguette Violette is a traditional French late-season dessert apple.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Bardsey
Bardsey is a hardy disease-resistant apple, discovered growing on an island off the west coast of Wales.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Beautiful Day
Beautiful Day is a sweet-flavoured white mulberry.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Bedan des Parts
A traditional French cider variety, producing a high quality bittersweet juice.
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Belle Fleur 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
Belle Fleur Simple
A traditional late-season dessert apple with a sweet flavour, and good keeping qualities.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Berner Rosen
Berner Rosen is an attractive dessert apple from Switzerland.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Beurre Hardy
One of the classic French pears, with a very good flavour, but needs a warm sheltered situation.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
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
Binet Rouge
Binet Rouge is a traditional French hard cider variety from the Pays d'Auge area of Normandy.
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Bittenfelder
Bittenfelder is a very vigorous cold-hardy apple rootstock.
Black Italia
Black Italia is a modern hybrid mulberry with a naturally sweet flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Blanc Nez
A bigarreau -type white cherry from northern France.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
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
Braeburn
Braeburn is one of the best-flavoured supermarket apple varieties.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
Burlat
Burlat is a bright red sweet cherry, which ripens in late May / early June.
Picking season: Very early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Cambridge Gage
Cambridge Gage is a reliable English green gage, with an excellent sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Champion
Champion is a a large American quince, suitable for warmer areas of Europe.
Chantecler
Chantecler is a very attractive late season apple that keeps well.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Citrumelo 4475
Citrumelo 4475 is a dwarfing citrus rootstock, particularly for sweet orange and grapefruit trees.
Clapp's Favorite
An attractive red-flushed early-season pear from the USA.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Clement's
Clement's pear is a high quality French dessert pear, very similar to Williams / Bartlett.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
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
Colt
Colt is a semi-vigorous rootstock for sweet cherries.
Concorde
A marriage of Conference and Comice - Concorde is easy to grow, heavy crops, excellent flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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
Cornelie
Cornelie is a traditional sweet buttery French dessert pear.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
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
Cox's Orange Pippin
Cox is widely acknowledged as having the best flavour of any apple variety.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Dabinett
Dabinett is a traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice.
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Dalmatie
A large green-fruited fig with pretty foliage.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
De Sang
A traditional heavy-cropping late-season cooking pear, originating from northern France and Belgium.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Deveci
Deveci is a large late-season eating pear, originating from Turkey.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Domaine
French cider variety, very resistant to fireblight infection.
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Doyenne du Comice
Doyenne du Comice is arguably the best flavoured of all pears.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Du Verger
Du Verger is an old French bittersweet cider apple variety.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Dublany
A modern early-season Cornelian cherry, with large dark red fruits, and a high sugar and acid content.
Picking season: Early
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Early Red Meat
Early Red Meat is an early season apple with a marbled red / pink flesh. It produces a dark pink apple juice.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Early Rivers
One of the earliest-ripening cherries, ready to pick in early June in north-western Europe.
Picking season: Very early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Egremont Russet
Egremont Russet is the most popular English russet variety, and a good apple tree for the garden.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Ellis Bitter
Ellis Bitter is a traditional and popular English cider apple, producing a bittersweet juice.
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Evereste
Malus Evereste is a popular traditional crab-apple with masses of white blossom, then red-yellow fruits.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Farleigh
Farleigh is a cold-hardy heavy-cropping traditional English damson.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
Flying Dragon
Flying Dragon is a popular dwarfing rootstock for orange, grapefruits, lemons and mandarins.
Fondante d'Automne
An old fashioned French pear with a notably sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Frequin Rouge
Frequin Rouge is one of the most important of the traditional French bittersharp cider varieties.
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
G.11
G.11 is a cold-hardy dwarfing apple rootstock, in the M9 size class.
G.41
G.41 is a cold-hardy fireblight-resistant dwarfing rootstock for apples.
Gaillarde
A traditional late-season high quality dessert apple from northern France.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Gala
Gala is a popular commercial apple variety, with a sweet flavour and crisp flesh.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Gisela 5
Gisela 5 is a popular semi-dwarf rootstock for sweet and sour cherries.
Gisela 6
Gisela 6 is a semi-vigorous rootstock for sweet and sour cherries.
Golden Delicious
The flavour of home-grown Golden Delicious is far better than its supermarket reputation.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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
GoldRush
A modern disease-resistant apple, like Golden Delicious but with a better tart/sweet balance. Good for eating fresh and juicing / cider.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Granny Smith
Granny Smith is the world-famous green apple from Australia, a good choice for warmer apple-growing regions.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
Gros Bigarreau de la Groise
Gros Bigarreau de la Groise is red sweet cherry from northern France, which ripens in late June / early July.
Gueule de Mouton
Gueule de Mouton is a fabulous apple that is good for eating fresh or juicing.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Harry Masters Jersey
Harry Masters Jersey is a traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice.
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Hayward
Hayward is a popular large-fruited female kiwi variety,
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Hedelfingen
An old late-season sweet cherry from Germany.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Hendre Huffcap
A well-known English perry pear variety, and a reliable cropper. It makes a light, low-tannin perry.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Heptacodium miconoides
Heptacodium miconioides is a small ornamental tree featuring clusters of small cream white flowers which are very attractive to bees.
Hidden Rose
®
Hidden Rose is named for the unexpected rose pink flesh hidden under the plain green skin.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Honeycrisp
Honeycrisp is a very popular modern American cold-hardy disease-resistant apple, known for its crisp sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Hosui
Hosui has perhaps the best flavour of any Asian pear - it is very juicy and very sweet.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Idared
Idared is a late-season American apple variety, notable for its excellent keeping qualities.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Illinois Everbearing
An American hybrid mulberry, producing long black fruits from an early age.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Issai
Issai is a smooth-skinned self-fertile kiwi, adapted to cooler climates.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
Jantarnyj
Jantarnyj is a mid-season yellow Cornelian cherry with a sweet juicy flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Fruit colour: Yellow
Jonagold
Jonagold is a high quality American apple, with a good balanced sweet/sharp flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Jonathan
Jonathan is one of the best-flavoured American apple varieties, and a good choice for the home orchard.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Kagayamae White
Kagayamae White is a fruiting form of the Plane Tree Mulberry, known for its dense leaves.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Kasandra
An early-ripening modern hybrid persimmon, suitable for northern climates.
Picking season: Early
Astringency: Astringent
Kidd's Orange Red
Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Kirchensaller
Kirchensaller is vigorous standard rootstock, compatible with all European pears.
Kordia
Kordia is a large late-season true black cherry variety with a good balanced cherry flavour.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Krasnojarskaja
A cold-hardy late-season Russian Saskatoon variety.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Kumoi
One of the most popular Asian pears, with a firm flesh and sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Lanscailler
A traditional dual-purpose apple, particularly good for cooking and juicing.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Lapins
An excellent modern sweet cherry. Easy to grow, with heavy crops of good-flavoured cherries.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Large Dutch
Large Dutch, or Flanders Giant, is one of the largest-fruited medlars, with attractive blossom and autum leaf colours.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
Lehman's Delight
An American persimmon with large fruits, one of the best for colder climates.
Picking season: Late
Astringency: Astringent
Leonard
A productive white mulberry with very sweet perfumed dull-red fruits.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Leskovacz
Leskovacz is an apple-shaped quince with a juicy aromatic flesh.
Louise Bonne
Louise Bonne is a pretty red-flushed French pear variety with sweet melting flesh.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
M116
M116 is a semi-vigorous rootstock for apples and crab-apples.
M9
M9 is the most widely-planted commercial dwarf apple rootstock.
Madeleine
A traditional French dual-purpose purple plum.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Mandam
A popular and compact commercial Saskatoon, ripening in the second half of July.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Manera
®
Manera is an apricot variety adapted to the cooler climates of northern Europe.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Marguerite Marillat
Marguerite Marillat is a traditional pear raised by Mr Marillat in the 1870s and named after his wife.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Marie Doudou
A dual-purpose late-season French apple variety with a good sweet-sharp flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Marseigna
Marseigna is a traditional French cider variety, producing a high quality bitter sweet juice.
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Martin
A Canadian Saskatoon, ripening in mid-July, with good-sided fruits.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Medaille d'Or
Medaille d'Or is a traditional French cider variety, which produces a full bittersweet juice.
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Melitopolski Cherny
Melitopolski Cherny is a dark red hybrid apricot / cherry plum which ripens in mid-July, also known as a Black Apricot.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Melrose
Melrose is a Jonathan-style apple, with a sweet flavour and good storage life.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Mia
®
Mia is an apricot variety well-suited to growing in the cooler climates of northern Europe.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Michelin
Michelin (or Normandie Blanc) is a traditional French cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice.
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
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
MM111
MM111 is a popular semi-vigorous rootstock for apple 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
Montmorency
Montmorency is a self-fertile sour cherry, used for cooking, and ideal for making American-style cherry pie.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Monty's Surprise
A recent New Zealand apple variety which is noted for very high levels of anti-oxidant compounds.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Morettini
An early season dessert pear with a good flavour.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Muscadet de Dieppe
A very old French bittersweet cider variety.
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Muskatnaja
While all quinces are best used in the kitchen, Muskatnaja is unusual in that it can also be eaten raw.
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
Myrobalan
Myrobalan is a seedling rootstock for producing standard plum trees.
Napoleon Bigarreau
Napoleon Bigarreau is a traditional white cherry, with an excellent flavour and appearance.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Nehou
An old French bittersweet cider variety.
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Newtown Pippin
First discovered in the 18th century, Newtown Pippin is a versatile American apple with a good aromatic flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Niesnij
Niesnij is a yellow-fruited Cornelian Cherry, suitable for eating fresh and cooking.
Picking season: Early
Fruit colour: Yellow
Nikita's Gift
An early-ripening modern hybrid persimmon, a good choice for northern climates.
Picking season: Early
Astringency: Astringent
Nikolka
Nikolka is a red Cornelian cherry with a bitter-sweet flavour, rich in antioxidants.
Picking season: Early
Fruit colour: Red
Noberte
Noberte is a traditional culinary plum, ideal for making jams and plum tarts.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Nottingham
Nottingham is a popular English medlar, used mainly for cooking.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
Ontario
A juicy dual-purpose apple from Canada.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Packham's Triumph
Perhaps the best-known Australian pear, producing large quantities of sweet-flavoured pears.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Paul's Scarlet
A popular small hawthorn with distinctive dark pink blossom with white centres.
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
Pendragon
An unusual red-fleshed apple from Cornwall or Devon in England. The bark, blossom, and leaves also have a dull-red tint.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Pillar Red Flesh
A red-fleshed apple which grows with a columnar habit.
Pink Pearl
Pink Pearl features bright pink flesh, and pink apple blossom.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 1
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Poire de Livre
Poire de Livre is an ancient culinary pear from the north of France.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Polonais
Polonais is one of the most cold-hardy of all apricots, and a good choice for growing in northern Europe.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Pomeroy
Pomeroy is a semi-dwarfing cold-hardy rootstock, compatible with most Citrus varieties.
Precoce de Saumur
Precoce de Saumur is an early-season apricot with good cold-hardiness.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Precoce de Wirwignes
A traditional and heavy-cropping early-season apple variety from Belgium.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Precoce Henin
Precoce Henin is an early-season eating pear with a rich sweet melting flesh.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
Pyrodwarf
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Pyrodwarf is a semi-vigorous rootstock compatible with all European pear varieties.
Queen Cox
A modern self-fertile form of the renowned Cox's Orange Pippin, with arguably even better flavour.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Quetsche d'Alsace
One of the best culinary plums, and a good example of the Quetsche or Zwetchen plums known in central Europe since the 17th century.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Radost
Radost is a bright red Cornelian cherry with a good acid content.
Picking season: Early
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Rainier
Rainier is a firm but juicy cherry with a good flavour.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Red Devil
Red Devil is a versatile English eating apple, and produces a sweet red-tinted juice.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Red Foxwhelp
Red Foxwhelp also known as Herefordshire Redstreak, is an old English cider apple variety which produces a dull red bittersweet juice.
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Red Williams
A red-coloured sport of the popular Williams pear, with a similar good flavour.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Redhaven
Red Haven is a yellow-fleshed peach, popular because it has some resistance to peach-leaf curl.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Regina
Regina is a new late-season sweet black cherry, with a good flavour and resistance to splitting.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Reine Claude de Bavay
The most widely-grown green gage, Reine Claude de Bavay has the distinctive gage-like flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
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
Reine de Reinettes
A traditional French dual-purpose apple, which was also known in the Victorian England as King of the Pippins.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Reinette Abry
A traditional dual-purpose yellow/green apple from northern France.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Reinette De Flandre
Reinette de Flandres is an old apple variety which appears to have originated in southern Belgium or northern France
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Reinette de France
A highly-regarded traditional French dessert apple.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Reinette des Capucins
Reinette des Capucins is 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
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
Reinette Rouge Etoilee
A popular traditional eating apple from the Low Countries.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Rouge de Bordeaux
As the name suggests this fig has a red-flesh with a rich sweet flavour.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Roxbury Russet
Roxbury Russet is probably the oldest apple variety originating from North America.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Rubaiyat
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Rubaiyat is a red-skinned apple, with bright red flesh.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Russian Beauty
Russian Beauty is a cold-hardy hybrid persimmon with large orange fruits.
Picking season: Early
Astringency: Astringent
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
Saint Jean d'Hardelot
One of the earliest-ripening pears, you should be able to pick them at the end of June.
Picking season: Very early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Saint Martin
Saint Martin is a traditional French bittersweet cider apple.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Saint Mathieu
Saint Mathieu is a traditional Franco-Belgian cooking pear.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Sang de Boeuf
A dark red dual-purpose apple, particularly good for cooking and juicing.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Sanguine de Wismes
Sanguine de Wismes is an unusual hybrid red-fleshed dessert plum.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 1
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Scarlet Surprise
Scarlet Surprise is an early-season pink-fleshed apple.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 1
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Shinseiki
This popular early-season Asian / Nashi pear variety produces crisp sweet-flavoured pears, which can be kept for up to 3 months.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Shipova
Shipova is a rare pear / whitebeam hybrid, producing small pear-like edible fruits.
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Shropshire Prune
The definitive English damson, Shropshire Prune has the rich astringent flavour typical of damsons.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Sleyt
A late-season large-fruited Saskatoon bush.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Somerset Redstreak
An English cider apple variety producing a very high-quality bittersweet juice.
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
St. Julien A
St. Julien A is a semi-vigorous rootstock, compatible with many plums, peaches, and apricots.
Stark Crimson
A red form of Clapp's Favorite, also known as Kalle. The pears have a sweet flavor, and ripen in late summer.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Stark Earliest
Stark Earliest will probably give you the first apple in any given year.
Picking season: Very early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Starokijewskij
Starokijewskij is a dark red September-ripening Cornelian cherry.
Picking season: Mid
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Sturmer Pippin
A sharp-tasting late-season Victorian apple which keeps very well.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Sucree de Montlucon
Sucree de Montlucon is an exceptionally sweet dessert pear.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Sunburst
Sunburst is a large red mid-season cherry with a good sweet mild flavour, and easy to pick.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Suntan
Suntan is a high-quality late-season dessert apple, with an excellent aromatic flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Szafer
Szafer bears heavy crops of sweet red Cornelian cherries over a long period.
Picking season: Mid
Fruit colour: Red - dark
Tetradium daniellii
A large deciduous tree producing plumes of small white flowers which are very attractive to bees.
Thiessen
A large-fruited early-ripening Saskatoon or Juneberry.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Three Counties
Three Counties is an early-ripening bittersweet cider apple.
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Tomuri
Tomuri is a male kiwi variety. It does not produce fruit, but is used as a pollinator for female kiwi plants.
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Trapezitsa
A very early-season pear for eating fresh, with good resistance to scab.
Picking season: Very early
Tremlett's Bitter
Tremlett's Bitter is a traditional English cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice.
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Verchocq
Verchocq is a traditional white cherry, maturing in early July.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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
Vilberie
A traditional French bittersweet cider variety.
Flowering group: 6
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Wellington
A traditional English black mulberry tree featuring large dark sweet fruits.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
White Transparent
A traditional early-season dual-purpose apple, which is also very winter-hardy.
Picking season: Very early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Wickson Crab
Wickson crab is a popular American hard-cider variety.
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Williams
Williams is a classic English pear, also known as Bartlett, with a good flavour and quite easy to grow.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Winnals Longdon
A traditional English perry pear variety, produces a low tannin perry.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Winter Banana
A good quality American apple variety with a faint banana-like flavor.
Picking season: Very late
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Wolf River
Wolf River is the perfect cooking apple - reliable, cold-hardy, disease resistant.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Yarlington Mill
Yarlington Mill is a traditional English cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice.
Flowering group: 5
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia is a traditional mulberry from south-east Europe.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile