National Apple Day 2024 October brings with it the crisp embrace of autumn, and with it, a cherished celebration of one of nature’s finest gifts – apples! On October 21st, the UK unites to observe National Apple Day, a delightful occasion that pays tribute to the rich heritage and diversity of apple varieties grown across the nation. Join us […]
Crab Apple Royalty Trees A decorative crab apple Royalty is known for its lovely dark purple foliage with velvety red flowers that appear in April-May, creating a striking contrast. Dark red fruits will appear on this Crab Apple in the Autumn which can be picked or left to provide food for birds.
Apple Limelight Trees The Limelight apple is a crisp, sweet, juicy-eating apple with a refreshing rich flavour. An improved Greensleeves type with clear smooth, glowing green-yellow skin often with a faint pink blush. Easy to grow, self-fertile and disease resistant. With a long cropping season from mid-September, the apples will store well until November. The estimated time to cropping once planted is 2 years. Delicious to eat and good for juice.
Apple Herefordshire Russet Trees Herefordshire Russet is noted for its abundant cropping that ripens in October. The apples are small to medium fruit with golden russet skin and a delicious rich aromatic flavour, similar to a Cox. Good for juicing too. Easy to grow, very hardy, and disease resistant. Russet apple trees are well-spurred trees, well-shaped, and fairly vigorous. Pretty as well as productive, Herefordshire Russet are available on two different rootstocks with one able to be grown in a large pot on a patio. History: Despite its name, Hereford Russet is a modern variety bred by Hugh Ermen in Kent in 2002. Parentage Cox’s Orange Pippin x Golden Delicious.
Apple Laxton’s Superb Trees Laxton’s superb is a desert apple derived from the cox orange pippin. Green/Yellow with red stripes and the fruits that grow in autumn has a sweet flavour. Laxton superb produces showy flowers in the spring.
Apple Howgate Wonder Trees A very large apple that can be quite sweet and pleasant when eaten fresh but basically it is a cooking apple. However, we note that many visitors to this website disagree and think it is a good eating variety too! Partially self-fertile like one of its parents, Newton Wonder.
Crab Apple Rudolph Trees The Crab Apple Rudolph is an upright deciduous tree with the crown rounding as it ages. It displays beautiful single dark rose-pink red blossom in late spring. The foliage emerges after flowering and is initially copper red in colour turning to green in summer and yellow in autumn. The tree produces small edible orange-yellow fruit in the autumn. Malus Rudolph is tolerant of pollution which makes it a good urban tree and prefers well-drained chalk, sand, clay and loam.
Crab Apple Weeping ‘Royal Beauty’ The Crab apple Royal Beauty is a deciduous tree with a weeping habit. The leaves are a red, bronze colour and the flowers provide a pink display in Spring, followed by dark red apples in the Autumn.
Crab Apple Indian Magic Trees The Crab Apple Indian magic tree is a deciduous flowering crab apple tree which has an attractive pink blossom in the Spring.
Crab Apple Gorgeous The Crab Apple Gorgeous is a lovely shaped small, spreading deciduous tree. With a dense rounded habit with scented apple blossom in spring. Large slender white star-shaped flowers open from pink buds. Green leaves through summer changing to yellow and orange in the autumn and perfect little glossy red Crab Apples. The abundant fruit lasts well into November. Malus Gorgeous makes delicious tangy pink crab apple jelly, alternatively leaves the fruit on the tree to give an attractive winter display and provide food for wildlife. RHS Award.
Crab Apple Malus sargentii ‘Tina’ Trees A dwarf crab apple tree suitable as a patio tree with white flowers and green leaves turning golden in autumn. Small red crab apples in the autumn.
Crab Apple Evereste Crab apple Evereste is delightful small tree with a broadly conical outline, dazzling large white flowers in April, opening from scarlet buds fading to pink. Dark green deciduous leaves change to a yellow bronze in autumn followed by wonderful red-flushed, orange yellow crab apples, often remaining on the bare branches into winter. The fruit can be used for jellies and sauces.
Apple Scrumptious Trees An apple with a good taste and texture. A self-fertile tree with bright red apples with a good taste and texture and a thin skin makes it easier to eat.
Apple Worcester Pearmain Trees Reliable crop of delicious orange-red fruit. Firm, juicy flesh is very sweet with strong strawberry flavour.
Apple Dabinett Cider Trees The Dabinett Cider Apple Tree is a self fertile heavy cropper with a bittersweet flavour fruit to make a quality cider. It is a recommended cider apple tree.
Crab Apple Pink Perfection Trees Pink Perfection is one of the most ornamental of the Crab Apples with a profusion of dainty pale pink doubled flowers. One is engulfed with the sweet fragrance of the tree dressed in her finest party frock in the spring. In summer the dark green foliage makes a dense leafy canopy when the abundant blossom is followed by fresh deep green leaves which turn a pretty yellow in autumn.
