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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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      • Beurre Hardy

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

      • Blue Tit

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

      • Bramley's Seedling

        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
        • Flowering group: 3
        • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

      • Cambridge Gage

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

      • Conference

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

      • Discovery

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

      • Doyenne du Comice

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

      • Egremont Russet

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

      • Fiesta

        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
        • Flowering group: 3
        • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

      • James Grieve

        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
        • Flowering group: 3
        • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

      • Kidd's Orange Red

        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
        • Flowering group: 3
        • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

      • Louise Bonne

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

      • Morello

        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

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

      • Oullins Gage

        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.
        • Flowering group: 4
        • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

      • Penny

        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

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

      • Red Falstaff

        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
        • Flowering group: 3
        • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

      • Red Windsor

        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
        • Flowering group: 2
        • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

      • Scrumptious

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

      • Stella

        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

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

      • Victoria

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

      • Williams

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

      • Worcester Pearmain

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