Limelight apple trees produce crisp, sweet, juicy eating apples with a refreshing rich flavour. An improved Greensleeves type with transparent smooth, glowing green-yellow skin often with a faint pink blush. Easy to grow, self-fertile and disease resistant. Malus domestica ‘Limelight’ has a long cropping season from mid-September, the apples will store well until November. The estimated time to cropping once planted is 2 years. Limelights are delicious to eat and good for juice.

Cultivation: Easy to grow, Self -fertile, heavy cropper.

Soil: Fertile, well-drained soil

Position: Limelight apples like full sun, partial shade

Foliage: Deciduous

Flowering: Malus domestica Limelight flowers in April/May

Fruiting: September

Habit: Compact shape

Hardiness: Limelight Apples are fully hardy

Growth: Average

Benefits to Wildlife: Yes, all wildlife

Height & Spread in Maturity:

MM106 rootstock: 3.5 metres  x 3 metres (12 x 10ft) M26: 2.5 metres x 2 metres

Awarded an RHS Award of Garden Merit

Limelight garden care: Keep the base of this apple tree weed free, fertilise at the beginning of each year and water regularly during hot, dry spells. The main prune should be done in the winter as long as it isn’t frosty or freezing. Take out the 3Ds (dead, dying and diseased wood) and create an open shape. Then reduce the leaders back by a third. Aim to create an airy structure without any crisscrossing branches. Summer prune in August by shortening any side shoots (or laterals) which are longer than 20cm back to three leaves. This will allow the sun to ripen the fruit and encourage more fruit buds. Make sure that the growth you’re cutting away feels firm to the touch.