Sunset

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• Keeping: 2-3 weeks
• Self-fertility: Self-fertile
• Flowering group: 3

Sunset is a popular Cox-style apple, widely recommended as an alternative to Cox's Orange Pippin as it is much easier to grow. The parentage is not known but it is almost certainly a seedling of Cox. Disease resistance is far better, and cropping is good.

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Trained Sunset apple trees for sale

Next deliveries

For delivery from December 2025

• Large Espalier (starter) tree £42.50
  Supplied with 1 tier and a leader, for training on as an espalier or palmette. Approx. mature size: 3m wide and 2.5m high. Potential for 3-5 tiers. bare-root.

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Growing and Training

Sunset can be grown reliably throughout much of the UK, but for best results plant in full-sun.

It is a neat and compact tree, and a good variety for training as a fan, espalier, or cordon.

Sunset characteristics

• Self-fertilitySelf-fertile
• Flowering group3
• Pollinating othersAverage
• AwardsRHS AGM (current) - 1993
• Picking period (southern UK)late September
• CroppingHeavy
• Keeping2-3 weeks
• Food usesEating freshJuice
• Disease resistanceGood
• CankerSome resistance
• ScabSome susceptibility
• Country of originUnited Kingdom
• Period of origin1900 - 1949
• Fruit colourOrange flush