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RHS Award of Garden Merit varieties

Fruit tree varieties that hold (or have previously held) the RHS Award of Garden Merit. These are varieties that are rated by the RHS as excellent for all-round garden value, and should be good candidates for growing as trained fruit trees.

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Growing

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  • Beth pear trees
    An easy and reliable early-season pear, with a very good melting flavour.
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Beurre Hardy pear trees
    A classic French pear with a very good flavour, but grows best in a warm sheltered situation.
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Blue Tit plum trees
    Blue Tit is a popular English dual-purpose plum, easy to grow, reliable cropping.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4

  • Bramley's Seedling apple trees
    The definitive English cooking apple, Bramley's Seedling can be trained into many different shapes.
    • Keeping: 3 months or more
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Cambridge Gage plum trees
    Cambridge Gage is a reliable green gage, similar to Old Green Gage, with an excellent flavour.
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Concorde pear trees
    A marriage of Conference and Comice - Concorde is easy to grow, heavy crops, excellent flavour.
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Conference pear trees
    A popular and reliable English pear, Conference is perfectly suited to the English climate.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Discovery apple trees
    Discovery is a popular early-season English apple variety, easy to grow in all trained forms.
    • Keeping: 1 week
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Doyenne du Comice pear trees
    Doyenne du Comice is arguably the best flavoured of all pears.
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Egremont Russet apple trees
    A reliable English russet apple, suitable for many forms of training.
    • Keeping: 1-2 months
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 2

  • Fiesta apple trees
    Fiesta (or Red Pippin) is one of the best Cox-style apples, easy to grow, with a good aromatic flavour, and a good choice for wall or cordon training.
    • Keeping: 3 months or more
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • James Grieve apple trees
    James Grieve is the classic Scottish cooking apple. It can also be eaten fresh, and is excellent for juice.
    • Keeping: 1-2 months
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Kidd's Orange Red apple trees
    Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.
    • Keeping: 1-2 months
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Lapins cherry trees
    Lapins is a mid-season red cherry from Canada, easy to grow, with heavy crops of good-flavoured cherries.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Louise Bonne pear trees
    Louise Bonne of Jersey is an attractive red-flushed French pear variety with sweet melting flesh.
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Morello cherry trees
    Morello is a traditional late-season acid or sour-cherry. It's a good choice if you need a trained tree for a north-facing situation.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Opal plum trees
    Opal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Oullins Gage plum trees
    Oullins Gage is easy to grow, and the flavours really benefit from being trained as a fan on a sunny wall.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4

  • Penny cherry trees
    Penny is a late-season black cherry - ripening in mid-August, well-suited to fan-training.
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Purple Pershore plum trees
    Purple Pershore is one of the most popular English culinary plums. Easy to grow and productive.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4

  • Red Falstaff apple trees
    Red Falstaff is one of the best garden apple trees, heavy crops, easy to grow, and very juicy.
    • Keeping: 1-2 months
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Red Windsor apple trees
    Red Windsor is one of the easiest to grow of all dessert apple trees, and with a pleasant apple flavour.
    • Keeping: 1 week
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 2

  • Scrumptious apple trees
    Scumptious is a new award-winning early-season English dessert apple.
    • Keeping: 1 week
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Stella cherry trees
    If you only want to grow one cherry tree, choose Stella - self-fertile, easy to grow, and a good pollinator.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Sunset apple trees
    Sunset is a popular garden alternative to Cox, easier to grow, with a sweet aromatic flavour.
    • Keeping: 2-3 weeks
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Victoria plum trees
    The most popular English plum variety, can be eaten fresh or used in the kitchen.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Williams pear trees
    Williams is a classic English pear, also known as Bartlett, with good flavour and quite easy to grow.
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Worcester Pearmain apple trees
    Worcester Pearmain is a well-known early-season English apple, noted for its strawberry-like flavours.
    • Keeping: 1 week
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3