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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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.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Welsh variety rediscovered in 1999 by Ian Sturrock on Bardsey Island / Ynys Enlli, off the north coast of Wales.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

2 month

Use

Cooking, Fresh eating, Juice

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Synonyms

Afal Enlli, Afal Ynys Enlli

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Medium vigour, upright-spreading to spreading habit, spur-bearing, good production

Disease behaviour

Scab

Resistant

Canker

Resistant

Pollination

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For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 2 - early.

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September 15-30

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Additional variety information for Bardsey is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.