Variety | Type | Description | Root- stocks | GRP | Picking time | Keeps until |
Adam’s Pearmain | Des | Well-flavoured apple – nutty, aromatic. Keeps well. A trouble-free variety. Golden yellow skin largely covered crimson red. Herefordshire variety. |
Maiden 106,25; Bush 106; Container 106 | B | Oct | March |
Annie Elizabeth | Cul | Moderately acid, red and green. | Maiden 26; | D | mid Oct | April/ May |
Ashmead’s Kernel | Des | A Gloucestershire yellowish-green apple with brown russet. Yellow flesh with crisp acid flavour. Good scab resistance and keeping qualities. |
Maiden 106,25; Bush 106; Container 106 | E | mid Oct | Feb |
Blenheim Orange | Des | An old favourite. Golden coloured striped dull red with a brown russet. |
Maiden 106,26; Bush 106; Container 106 | CT | early Oct | Jan |
Bountiful | Cul | A good alternative to Bramley. Skin pale green striped with orange red. A trouble-free variety. Heavy cropper. |
Maiden 106,26; Bush 106; Container 106 | C | late Sept | Jan |
Bramley | Cul | The most well-known cooker. Large fruits with yellow green skin colour. A vigorous grower. |
Maiden 106; Bush 106; Container 106 | CT | mid Oct | March |
Cevaal | De | Red Cox like apple with good flavour. | Maiden 111 | C | Sept | Nov |
Charles Ross | Des | Good-looking large dual-purpose apple. Yellow green flushed orange red. Scab-resistant. Sweet-flavoured eater that bakes well. |
Maiden 106,26; Bush 106; Container 106 | C | mid Sept | Dec |
Cox’s Orange Pippin | Des | A most popular eating apple. Golden flushed orange red with patches of brown russet. Very good flavour. |
Maiden 106; Bush 106; Container 106 | C | Oct | Jan |
Discovery | Des | Very good early eater. Bright yellow base otherwise crimson. Good pollinator. Disease-resistant. |
Maiden 106,25,26; Bush 9; Container 106 |
C | Aug | Does not keep |
Egremont Russet | Des | Most popular russet. Golden skin with large areas of brown russet. Crisp flavour, nutty and sweet. Good pollinator. A trouble-free variety. |
Maiden 106,111,25; Bush 9; Container 106 |
B | Oct | March |
Ellison’s Orange | Des | Green yellow skin flushed over red. Scab resistant. Juicy fruits with a hint of aniseed. |
Maiden 106,25; Bush 106; Container 106 | D | Sept | Oct |
Falstaff (R) | Des | A modern variety with much to recommend it. Good flavoured green fruits striped red. Disease-resistant, good pollinator, self-fertile. |
Maiden 106,111; Bush 106; Container 106 |
C | Oct | March |
Greensleeves (R) | Des | Juicy, crisp, pale green apple. | Maiden 111 | C | mid Sept | Nov |
James Grieve | Des | Well known Scottish variety. Medium-large yellow fruit striped with orange. Good variety for difficult situations. Hardy. Good pollinator. |
Maiden 106,26; Bush 26; Container 106 | C | Sept | Oct |
Jonagold | Des | A modern variety. Excellent fruit quality, flavoursome, crisp and juicy. Green yellow skin, flushed and mottled red. |
Maiden 106; Bush 106; Container 106 | CT | mid Oct | Feb |
Katy | Des | An early apple producing good regular yields of bright red fruits. Trouble free variety and good pollinator. |
Maiden 25,26; Bush 106; Container 106 | C | Sept | Oct |
Lord Lambourne | Des | Regular heavy cropping apple. Flushed and striped red over green/yellow base. Sweet, juicy and aromatic. Compact grower, good for small gardens. |
Maiden 106,25; Container 106 | B | Sept | Nov |
Pitmaston Pineapple | Des | Flavoursome, small golden apple. | Maiden 26 | C | Sept | Nov |
Rosemary Russet | Des | A good russet with a sweet yet sour flavour. Juicy. Skin green/yellow striped orange, partly covered with russet. Moderate cropping. |
Maiden 106; Container 106 | C | late Sept | March |
Spartan | Des | Smooth-skinned dark red apple with white juicy flesh. Trouble free-variety and good pollinator. |
Maiden 106; Container 106 | C | early Oct | Jan |
Sunset | Des | Similar to Cox but more disease-resistant. Heavy regular crops of smallish apples with golden skin striped red with small patches of russet. Very good garden apple. |
Maiden 106; Container 106 | C | late Sept | Dec |
Early Windsor | Des | Yellow skin flushed red. Self-fertile, trouble-free variety. |
Bush 106,9; Container 106 | C | early Sept | Nov |
Rev W Wilks | Cul | Sweet, pale green with some red. | Maiden 106 | B | ||
Winston | Des | A late apple with green yellow skin flushed red. Good resistance to disease. Excellent keeper. Partly self-fertile. |
Maiden 106; Bush 106; Container 106 | D | mid Oct | April |
Worcester Pearmain | Dessert | Fruit almost completely flushed brilliant red. Tip bearer. Reliable cropper. Good pollinator. Allow fruit to ripen fully on tree. |
Maiden 106,26; Bush 106,9; Container 106 |
C | early Sept | Oct |
R = Registered under Plant Breeders Rights
T = Triploid variety requiring two pollination partners (Information supplied by Walcot Organic Nursery) |