Apple trees
Apple trees make a great addition to your garden, and provide versatile fruits for eating or cooking, with little effort. We are apple tree specialists and can advise on all aspects of choosing and planting your apple trees.
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Akane apple tree
Akane is an attractive early-season eating apple with a good pedigree and a sweet/sharp flavor. compare
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Alkmene apple tree
Alkmene is a mid-season apple from Germany, related to to Cox but with a more robust flavor. compare
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Arkansas Black apple tree
Arkansas Black is an unusual and attractive apple, used as a winter apple after maturing in a cold store. compare
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Ashmead's Kernel apple tree
A versatile English russet apple from the 17th century, Ashmead's Kernel is noted for its distinctive pear-like flavor. compare
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Baldwin apple tree
Baldwin is an American heirloom apples, sweet and crisp for eating fresh or cooking. compare
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Bramley's Seedling apple tree
Bramley is the essential English cooking apple, famous for its rich sharp acidity. compare
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Burgundy apple tree
A mid-season apple variety with a good flavor, and good for juicing. compare
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Calville Blanc apple tree
One of the great culinary apples, Calville Blanc is a French variety equally at home in the North American kitchen. compare
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Chieftain apple tree
A quietly popular apple, similar to Delicious but with a better and more complex flavor. compare
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Claygate Pearmain apple tree
Claygate Pearmain is a popular English dessert apple of the Victorian era. compare
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Cornish Gilliflower apple tree
Cornish Gilliflower is a popular English eating apple with an excellent sweet aromatic flavor. compare
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Cortland apple tree
Developed from McIntosh, Cortland is one of the most widely-grown Mac-style apples. compare
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Court Pendu Plat apple tree
Court Pendu Plant is a traditional French apple with a pronounced aromatic pear-drop flavor. compare
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Cox's Orange Pippin apple tree
Cox is widely acknowledged as having the best flavor of any apple variety. compare
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Cripp's Pink apple tree
Cripp's Pink is one of the best-known modern apple varieties, well-suited to the warmer apple-growing regions. compare
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Cripp's Red apple tree
Cripps Red is a late-season dessert apple from Australia, with a crisp dense flesh and a good flavor. compare
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Duchess of Oldenburg apple tree
An old culinary variety from Russia, popular in North America, and noted for its winter hardiness. compare
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Egremont Russet apple tree
Egremont Russet is the most popular English russet variety, and a good apple tree for the garden. compare
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Elstar apple tree
Elstar is an attractive apple with a well-balanced honeyed flavor. compare
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Empire apple tree
One of the most widely-planted McIntosh style apples, Empire has the Mac flavor but improves on it. compare
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Enterprise apple tree
Enterprise is a modern American disease-resistant apple, good for eating fresh and cooking. compare
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Florina apple tree
A modern disease-resistant variety related to Jonathan and Golden Delicious. compare
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Freyberg apple tree
Freyberg is an attractive golden yellow apple with a high-quality sweet refreshing flavor. compare
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Fuji apple tree
Developed in Japan, but with all-American parents, Fuji is a very attractive apple with a good sweet flavor. compare
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Gala apple tree
Gala is popular supermarket apple - but better when home-grown, with a sweet pleasant flavor. compare
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Golden Delicious apple tree
The flavor of home-grown Golden Delicious is far better than its supermarket reputation. compare
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Golden Russet apple tree
Golden Russet is an antique apple from New York, considered the best-flavored of American russets. compare
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GoldRush apple tree
GoldRush is a modern disease-resistant apple, like Golden Delicious but with a better tart/sweet balance. compare
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Granny Smith apple tree
Granny Smith is the world-famous green apple from Australia, a good choice for warmer apple-growing regions. compare
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Gravenstein apple tree
Gravenstein is a high-quality early-season eating and cooking apple, with an excellent strong apple flavor. compare
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Grimes Golden apple tree
A high quality apple, Grimes Golden is probably the parent of Golden Delicious, but with a richer flavor. compare
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Honeycrisp apple tree
Honeycrisp is a modern cold-hardy fresh-eating apple - it shows just how good modern apples have become. compare
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Jonagold apple tree
Jonagold is a high quality American apple, with a good balanced sweet/sharp flavor. compare
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Karmijn de Sonnaville apple tree
This is a little-known Cox-style apple but with the potential for very good flavor. compare
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Kidd's Orange Red apple tree
Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow. compare
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King of Tompkins County apple tree
An heirloom apple from New York state, primarily used for cooking. compare
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Liberty apple tree
Liberty is a popular disease-resistant apple, large crops of bright red apples, similar to McIntosh. compare
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Macoun apple tree
Macoun is one of the best McIntosh-style apples, with the characteristic flowery vinous flavor. compare
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Margil apple tree
An 18th century French apple variety with an aromatic and complex flavor. compare
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McIntosh apple tree
A traditional versatile north-country apple. Also known as Macintosh. compare
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Mutsu (Crispin) apple tree
Mutsu or Crispin is a high quality apple from Japan, with a good flavor, and also sharp enough for cooking. compare
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Newtown Pippin apple tree
In use since the mid 18th century, Newtown Pippin is a versatile American apple with a high quality aromatic flavor. compare
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Northern Spy apple tree
Northern Spy is a popular late-season American heirloom apple variety which stores well. compare
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Orleans Reinette apple tree
Orleans Reinette is traditional French apple variety, and remains popular for its old-fashioned flavor. compare
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Rhode Island Greening apple tree
Rhode Island Greening is a well-regarded American heirloom variety, particularly good for cooking. compare
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Roxbury Russet apple tree
Roxbury Russet is probably the oldest apple variety originating from North America. compare
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Rubinette apple tree
Rubinette has exceptional flavor, perhaps the best balance of sweetness and sharpness of any apple variety. compare
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Saint Edmund's Russet apple tree
Not as well known as other russets, St. Edmund's Russet is nevertheless one of the best. compare
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Sansa apple tree
A high quality early-season apple variety with a notably sweet flavor. compare
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Spartan apple tree
Spartan produces lots of crimson maroon apples, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, delicate "vinous" flavor. compare
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Spitzenburg apple tree
Esopus Spitzenberg is one of the best-flavored American heirloom apples, said to be Thomas Jefferson's favorite variety. compare
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Tydeman's Late Orange apple tree
An excellent late-season Cox-style aromatic apple. compare
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Winesap apple tree
Winesap is a popular southern heirloom apple, widely grown in Virginia in the 19th century. compare
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Wolf River apple tree
Wolf River is the perfect cooking apple for the north - reliable, cold-hardy, disease resistant. compare
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Zabergau Reinette apple tree
Zabergau Reinette is a well-regarded russet apple from Germany with a strong well-balanced flavor. compareMore about Apple trees
Apple trees are generally easy to grow, and because there are so many apple varieties there is invariably a good choice for almost any growing situation, from cool temperate to subtropical.
Apples are perhaps the most versatile of all temperate fruits, and one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. Almost all cultivated apple varieties belong to the species Malus domestica, and are botanically part of the Rose family - apple blossom has an obvious resemblance to wild rose flowers. Apples trees were one of the earliest fruit trees to be cultivated, and originate from central Asia. There are now thousands of different apple cultivars or varieties.
Apples display perhaps a greater range of flavours, appearance, and texture than any other tree fruits. This diversity makes apples a particularly satisifying fruit for home cultivation. Without much difficulty (or space) one can grow a number of different apple trees which will keep a family supplied with fresh apples from mid-summer to late autumn, and with a good spread of flavours and uses.