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42 varieties
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Categories
Apples
15
Apples - Eating
15
Apples - Cooking
3
Cherries
4
Cherries - Eating
2
Cherries - Cooking
2
Pears
6
Plums
16
Plums - eating
13
Plums - cooking
7
Stock availability
All
42
In stock
0
Not in stock
42
Form
Espalier (starter)
Fan (starter)
Mature size
Medium
Large
Growing
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
19
Partially self-fertile
10
Not self-fertile
13
Flowering group
?
2
8
3
24
4
8
5
2
Pollinating others
?
Good
7
Average
30
Poor
3
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
22
RHS AGM (former)
3
RHS 1st class
1
Using
Picking period (southern UK)
mid-July
2
late July
1
early August
1
mid-August
8
late August
2
early September
5
mid-September
7
late September
4
early October
2
mid-October
7
Cropping
Heavy
19
Good
19
Light
3
Keeping
Does not keep
1
1-3 days
14
1 week
12
2-3 weeks
5
1-2 months
7
3 months or more
2
Food uses
Eating fresh
39
Culinary
15
Traditional cooker
1
Dual purpose
3
Juice
11
Hard cider
2
Problems
Disease resistance
Good
13
Average
18
Poor
4
Canker
Some resistance
5
Some susceptibility
4
Very susceptible
1
Scab
Very resistant
5
Some resistance
6
Some susceptibility
6
Very susceptible
1
Mildew
Very resistant
1
Some resistance
4
Some susceptibility
3
Bacterial canker
Silverleaf
Some resistance
1
Very susceptible
1
Peach leaf curl
Identification
Country of origin
Belgium
2
Canada
3
France
6
Iran
1
New Zealand
1
Sweden
3
United Kingdom
25
United States
1
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1
1600 - 1649
1
1750 - 1799
2
1800 - 1849
6
1850 - 1899
13
1900 - 1949
9
1950 - 1999
9
Fruit colour
Black
1
Blue - dark
1
Crimson
2
Gold
1
Green
4
Green - light
7
Green / Red
1
Green / Yellow
1
Orange / Red
2
Orange flush
6
Purple
4
Purple - light
1
Red
8
Red - dark
4
Russet
2
Yellow
3
Yellow / Orange
1
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Varieties list
Albalu
Albalu is a culinary or acid cherry, and can be grown on a north-facing wall.
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Avalon
Avalon is a large mid-season red/purple plum, similar to Victoria, with a very good flavour.
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Beurre Hardy
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 is a popular English dual-purpose plum, easy to grow, reliable cropping.
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Bramley's Seedling
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 is a reliable green gage, similar to Old Green Gage, with an excellent flavour.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Conference
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
Cox's Orange Pippin
Cox is generally considered to have the best flavour of any apple variety.
Keeping: 1-2 months
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Denniston's Superb
Denniston's Superb is a gage-like green plum, raised in New York in the 19th century.
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Discovery
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 is arguably the best flavoured of all pears.
Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Durondeau
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Egremont Russet
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 (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
Golden Transparent Gage
A traditional English gage, noted for its very sweet flavour.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Awards: RHS 1st class
Herman
Herman is an excellent and versatile early-season plum variety, blue/purple with yellow flesh.
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
James Grieve
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
Jubilee
Jubilee is a new heavy-cropping dessert plum variety, similar to Victoria but larger and more reliable.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Kidd's Orange Red
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
Late Muscatelle
A traditional French dessert variety, highly-regarded for its very sweet plums.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Late Transparent Gage
A late season English plum with an excellent very sweet flavour.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Laxton's Superb
Laxton's Superb is a deservedly popular English late-season dessert apple from the Victorian era.
Keeping: 1-2 months
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Louise Bonne
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)
McIntosh
McIntosh is the classic Canadian red apple, with a bright white sweet flesh.
Keeping: 2-3 weeks
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Morello
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
Old Green Gage
Old Green Gage is considered by many to be the best-flavoured of any plum variety.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Opal
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 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 is a late-season black cherry - ripening in mid-August, well-suited to fan-training.
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Purple Pershore
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 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 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
Reine Claude de Bavay
The most widely-grown green gage, Reine Claude de Bavay has the distinctive gage-like flavour.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Scrumptious
Scumptious is a new award-winning early-season English dessert apple.
Keeping: 1 week
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Spartan
Spartan produces lots of crimson maroon apples, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, delicate "vinous" flavour.
Keeping: 1 week
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Stella
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 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
Tydeman's Late Orange
Tydeman's Late Orange is a Cox-style apple, but later ripening and with a slightly sharper flavour.
Keeping: 1-2 months
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Victoria
The most popular English plum variety, can be eaten fresh or used in the kitchen.
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Warwickshire Drooper
Warwickshire Drooper is a good quality dual-purpose yellow plum, with heavy crops.
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Williams
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 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