Apple Katy

Our Apple Trees are grafted at Whitehall Road Nurseries using Scion taken from our Orchard in Scholes just 1 mile away. We grow varieties suitable for this location. Many of our Trees are available to purchase as one year maidens with prices starting from £14.50. Please see below availability of our grafted trees for 2024.

For further information and advice on suitable varieties and flowering groups, please contact our nursery.

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  • Gronningen Kroon –    Dessert a modern dutch variety, very productive tree with uniform blushed rounded fruits with a crisp sweet flesh. Does well in this locality. On m106 rootstock. Group 2

 

  • Winter Gem  –  This is a high quality dessert apple, highly aromatic with crisp juicy flesh, pink flushed fruit. Excellent keeping qualites hence it’s name. On mm106 rootstock. Group 3

 

  • Egremont Russett  –  Dessert apple deep rich flavoured, heavy crops of medium sized rounded fruits, self fertile, compact upright habit and resistant to late frosts. Makes an excellent apple juice. Very good variety for this locality. R.h.s. Award of merit. On mm106 rootstock. Group 2.

 

  • Cornish Aromatic –  A very old english variety thought to have been grown in cornwall for centuries. A very handsome dessert apple with a sweet slightly spicy aromatic flavour. Upright spreading tree.

 

  • Kings Acre Pippin  –  Dessert dates from 1897, a strong healthy grower, produces good crops of large deep green fruits, outstanding sweet juicy apples with a lovely aroma. Keeps well. Mm106 rootstock group 2.

 

  • Somerset Red Streak – Cider very heavy cropping, with rounded fruits, pressing a sweet juice with a dry finish. An old and quite rare variety. Group 2

 

  • Winter Cockpit  – Culinary an old yorkshire variety first recorded in 1831. Medium sized, flat-round, green fruit with soft juicy flesh, sharp tasting, cooking to a sweet, pleasantly flavoured puree. On m106 rootstock. Group 3

 

  • Spartan – Dessert, deep red apples, noted for heavy crops of juicy crimson red fruits, partially self fertile, and an excellent pollinator for other varieties. Very good disease resistance. A noted variety for colder or more exposed sites. On mm106 rootstock.. Group 3

 

  • Orleans Riennette – A traditional French apple, used for cooking and baking, but also as a dessert apple. Dates back to 1776. Its rich golden flesh is tasty, a good balance between sharp and sweet, with a touch of nutty that goes well with the red-flushed-russeted skin.

 

  • May Queen –  An excellent late apple May Queen produces bright red medium sized flattish apples that have yellow flesh and are crisp, juicy and are of very good flavour. A good keeper lasting well into the New year.as the name suggests and is very productive from an early age.

 

  • Gravenstein –  Dual purpose very old variety dating from circa 1650, large oblong fruit with a pink/orange flush. Superb crisp flesh, very juicy. Also cooks well, staying firm. Very hardy, early season, suits this locality. Group 1. M111 rootstock.

 

  • Violette – Dessert the name refers to the violet blossom & the very dark red apples. The flesh is white & crisp with a slight perfumed flavour crops heavy & ready to pick mid sep. A very old & rare variety. On m111 rootstock.

 

  • Golden Reinette – The Golden Reinette apple is an old dessert apple known in England since the 1600’s. The Golden Reinette has a attractive yellow skin flushed and streaked red, partly covered and dotted with russet. The fruit has a yellow deep cream flesh,compact, crisp to crumbling. Good fruity taste similar to a Blenheim Orange. Golden Reinette apples are pleasant sweet-sharp character. On MM 106 Rootstock

 

  • Bloody Ploughman – Dessert. An outstanding compact tree, sets well with almost glowing deep red apples, sweet and crisp , Eat off the tree, mid to late season. Dates from 1883, of scottish origin. Mm 106 dwarf stock. Group 2

 

  • Katy – (DESSERT) Superb variety, green fruits blushed bright scarlet, smooth skin with notably good sweet flavour. Eat straight from the tree. A very heavy cropper. Ready for picking early Aug. A very reliable variety for this locality. MM106 rootstock. Group 2.

 

  • Farmers Glory – Dual purpose a good disease resistant, strong growing variety.producing good sized fresh green apples blushed pink. Sharp crisp flesh ripening to very sweet. On mm106 dwarfing rootstock. Group 3.

 

  • Cockpit Improved – Culinary a highly esteemed yorkshire apple originating from 1850. It has yellow-green medium sized fruit which are flushed with red and lightly ribbed, with a sharp, soft juicy flesh. Cooks to a sensational sweet puree with some bite. Mm106. Group 3.

 

  • Yorkshire Greening – Culinary very old yorkshire variety,circa 1803. Large regular crops of large green apples striped & blushed red in the sun. Cook to a very richly flavoured pale green puree. Naturally compact tree. On m106 rootstock. Group 3

 

  • Yorkshire Aromatic – Culinary/ dessert dating from 1945 this is a good hardy northern variety. Heavy crops of medium sized green ripening to yellow fruits that cook to a sublime tangy puree, also a crisp aromatic eater. Spur bearing & keeps well. On mm106 rootstock. Group 2.

 

  • Howgate Wonder – Dual purpose first raised in 1915, produces large deep red fruit, can be used for cooking or if kept is a lovely sweet flavoured large apple. Reliable cropper. Group b. Mm106 rootstock.

 

  • Le Brett – This is a very sweet cider apple, unsuitable for eating due to its sweetness and chewy texture however when blended with other varieties makes fantastic cider.

 

  • Bramley – (COOKING APPLE) First introduced 1876, . Green red blushed fruits, a classic baking variety, crops reliably, with very good keeping qualities a famous & popular variety. R.h.s. Award of garden merit..ON Mm106 rootstock. Group 3.

 

  • Cats Head – Culinary an extremely old variety of cooking apple, very elongated and angular in appearance with very large pale yellow or silvery green fruit with a very smooth skin. Cooks to a firm puree. Strong growing. Tree, heavy cropper. On mm106 rootstock. Group 3.

 

  • Red Love – A red fleshed apple, naturally compact growing with lovely deep pink spring blossom & red tinged foliage. Rounded glossy red fruits with a crisp tangy red flesh that keeps well. This variety is naturally dwarf & compact in growth. The fruit can also be used for cider & will give a red tinted cider. On MM106 rootstock.

 

  • Coxs Orange – (DESSERT) One of the best known british apples, originating in 1825. A close relative of the ribston pippin. Fruit green dappled orange with renowned sweet flavour. RHS Award of garden merit. Group 3. MM106 root stock.

 

  • Laxtons Fortune – Dessert circa 1904. Bright red flushed orange fruits, flesh creamy white, very juicy, a naturally small tree, easy to grow. Mid season. Rhs award of garden merit. Mm106 rootstock. Group c. Partially self fertile.

 

  • Bismark – Culinary originating 1870, mid to late season, very large yellow apples flushed almost purple, a heavy reliable cropper even in cold locations. Excellent flavour cooks to a sweet puree.we find it has excellent keeping qualities. Group 2. On mm106 rootstock.

 

  • Bulmers Norman – Cider originating from normandy 19th century, one of the original orchard varieties for bulmers cider. Highly productive with green lightly flushed orange apples producing a dry cider. Group 3. On mm111 rootstock.

 

  • Tremletts Bitter – Cider apple a traditional old variety, superb large crops of small deep red conical fruit, produces a sweet juice with high tannin giving full bodied medium dry cider. Pick october. Group 1. On m106 rootstock.

 

  • Pixie – Dessert has exceptional small crisp fruit which are intensely rich and sweet. Heavy cropper. The tree is naturally small & compact in growth. Suitable for small gardens or container growing. On mm106 rootstock. Group 2.

 

  • Keswick Codlin – Dessert/cooker a good northern variety, introduced 1793, large light green almost yellow apples, cooks to a foam, also eats well, with soft juicy texture. Well worth growing. On mm111 rootstock. Group 2.

 

  • Golden Spire –  Cooker/dessert, a very useful lancashire variety circa 1850, an unusual yellow conical apple, very sweet flavour, staying firm when cooked. If stored for a few weeks makes a lovely aromatic eater. Will also make an excellent dry cider. Mm 106 rootstock. Group 1.

 

  • Newton Wonder  – One of the best cooking apples available. Introduced 1887. Large colourful fruit with yellow flesh heavily flushed with scarlet. Sweet aroma. Hardy and tolerant of late frosts. Group3. On m106 rootstock.

 

  • Arthur Turner – Culinary raised in 1912 by charles turner, an outstanding cooking apple, large deep flavoured light orange blushed fruits, good cropper, strong upright tree with good disease resistance. Mm106 rootstock. Group 2

 

  • Pitmaston Pineapple – Dessert’ circa 1785, small golden apples produced prolifically packed with flavours of pineapple & honey. The tree has a good well formed bushy habit & very pretty in blossom. A most unusual variety. On m106 rootstock.

 

  • Worcester Paermain – Dessert. Dating from 1873, an eat off the tree variety, fruits green flushed crimson , crisp and sweet with aromatic flavour. Partially self fertile, r.h.s. Award of garden merit, on mm 111 rootstock. Group 3.

 

  • Flower of  the Town – Dual purpose an old yorkshire apple dating from 1826. Medium sized ribbed yellow skinned fruits heavily striped scarlet. Cooks firm or if kept eats sharp & crisp. A rare variety. On mm106 rootstock.

 

  • Galaxy – Dessert high yields of very dark red blushed purple conical fruits, sweet juicy eater. Spur bearing.blossoms late spring. Group 3. On m106 rootstock.

 

  • Lord Derby – Culinary dates from 1862, cooker, late flowering, reliable cropper, large green fruits turning pale yellow, firm rich flavoured flesh . A noted hardy tree that tolerates wet ground, well worth growing .ON Mm106 rootstock. Group 4

 

  • Belle De Boskoop – Dual purpose introduced 1850, a good apple for northern areas,slightly russet very pale red to green, if kept eats well, with crisp sharp flavour. Excellent for cooking, straight from the tree. On mm 106 root stock.

 

  • Mary Dolby – Dessert a very local yorkshire variety discovered by Alan Burton of cleckheaton., Large crisp sweet apples, with a cream yellow flesh. Distinctive light orange skin with red streaks. Main season and sets reliably. Mm106 rootstock.

 

  • Discovery – Superb variety, dessert, heavy reliable cropper, well sized green fruits flushed bright red, hard, crisp, sweet and juicy, eat off the tree and stores well. Rhs award of garden merit. On m9 rootstock. Group 3.

 

  • Dirlington Red – Dessert/ cider a most unusual apple with red tinted foliage large carmine pink blossom & red conical fruits that also have red flesh to the core. Of scottish origin & well suited to this locality. Crisp and juicy quite sharp flavour. On mm106 rootstock. Group 3.

 

  • Ellisons Orange – Dessert golden striped red fruits, juicy with a noted deep flavour. An open branched tree with blossom that is resistant to frosts, a good variety for this locality. Introduced 1911. R.h.s. Award of merit. Group 4. Mm106 rootstock.

 

  • James Grieves – Dessert/cooker dates from 1897, fruits have a red flush with crimson stripes, eat off the tree very juicy with excellent flavour, also cooks well. Pollinates very easily practically self fertile, r.h.s. Award of garden merit. Mm106 rootstock. Group 3.

 

  • Court Pendu Plat – Dessert oldest apple still in cultivation, dates from roman times, a late flowerer and reliable setter, medium sized richly flavoured fruit with a crisp light flesh.ready to pick mid sep. On m27 rootstock.

 

  • Dabinett – Cider medium to large purple flushed fruits. Perfect for cider with full bodied bittersweet flavour. Spur bearer, late variety. Group 3

 

  • Bundys Ringwood Red – Dessert/cider a pretty tree in all respects, large light red blossom with medium sized deep red apples that are unusually red fleshed. The foliage is also red tinged. The apples eat well but also produce a lovely red cider, a neat grower. MM106 rootstock. Group 3

 

  • Api Noir – A very old french variety dating from 16th century. Highly productive with unusual deep burgundy apples, a very decorative tree in blossom & fruit. The apples were traditionally used to decorate garlands & wreaths.. But a useful cooking apple or eating if kept. Mm 106 rootstock. Group 4.

 

  • Chisel Jersey – Cider originating from the 19th century, a heavy bearing tree with red skinned medium sized conical fruits. Produces a high quality bittersweet cider. Group 6.

 

  • Balsam – Culinary/cider an old and traditional yorkshire variety, a consitent and reliable cropper of green unform firm apples, makes superb preserves. And keeps & stores very well. Strong easy tree. On mm106 dwarfing rootstock. Group 2

 

  • Brownlees Russet – Dessert very intense sweet apples highly aromatic, the fruits are a clear russet brown, crops very well , the tree has a neat upright habit. An old variety, introduced circa 1840. On mm106 dwarfing rootstock.

 

  • Fiesta – Dessert variety with medium to large red flushed fruits ready for picking late september early october. Free flowering sets readily and a heavy cropper. Group 2. M106 rootstock.

 

  • Lord Lamborn – Dessert very reliable and heavy cropping garden variety, striped red fruits ripen late very sweet and juicy. A good variety for this locality, introduced 1907, r.h.s. Award of merit. Mm106 rootstock. Group 2.

 

  • Blenheim Orange – Culinary/dessert introduced in 1818, a lovely yellow flushed red apple, crisp, yellow flesh with a noted sweet nutty flavour, mid to late season. Grows with a neat well branched habit. On mm106 rootstock. Group 4.