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Cooking apples

Some of these are ‘dual-purpose’, which means they’re good to eat too!

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Hessle | Pear tree | Potted
Hessle | Pear tree | Potted
£24.95

A hardy, dual-purpose pear variety that grows well in cooler regions. Small green fruit with white, juicy flesh.

Type: Dessert

Season: Oct

Pollination: Self-sterile. Pollination group D

Willingham Gage | Plum tree | Potted
Willingham Gage | Plum tree | Potted
from £24.95

A sweet greengage with a melon-like flavour. Crops in August, suitable for cooking and eating.

Type: Dessert

Season: August

Pollination: Self-sterile. Pollination group D

River's Early Prolific | Plum tree | Potted
River's Early Prolific | Plum tree | Potted
from £24.95

True to its name, produces early and prolifically! Sharp-flavoured, delicious small plums suitable for both eating and cooking.

Type: Dessert

Season: Late July

Pollination: Partially self-fertile. Pollination group C

Arthur Turner | Apple tree | Potted
Arthur Turner | Apple tree | Potted
from £23.95

One of the best early cookers, perfect for making baked apple and apple sauce. Produces beautiful pink blossom.

Type: Culinary

Season: September-November

Pollination: Partially self-fertile. Pollination group C

Lord Hindlip | Apple tree | Potted
Lord Hindlip | Apple tree | Potted
£23.95

A late dessert apple that stores well. Of a conical shape, flushed crimon with an excellent crisp flavour.

Type: Dessert

Season: October-March

Pollination: Self-sterile. Pollination group C

Gruner Calviner | Apple tree | Potted
Gruner Calviner | Apple tree | Potted
from £23.95

A late keeping cooking variety with firm, fine flesh and an acid flavour.

Type: Culinary

Season: September

Lord Derby | Apple tree | Potted
Lord Derby | Apple tree | Potted
£23.95

A good cooking apple, round-conical in shape. Keeps some of its shape when cooked and suitable for growing in northern Britain.

Type: Culinary

Season: October-December

Pollination: Partially self-fertile. Pollination group D

Tom Putt | Apple tree | Potted
Tom Putt | Apple tree | Potted
from £23.95

A very versatile apple that is a good and reliable cropper. Flesh is crisp and juicy. Listed as a cooking variety, it is often eaten as dessert and useful for making cider. Very resistant to scab.

Type: Dual Purpose

Season: August - December

Fertility: Self-sterile Triploid. Pollination group C

Keswick Codlin | Apple tree | Potted
Keswick Codlin | Apple tree | Potted
£23.95

A traditional early season cooking apple with a long, rather squashed shape and pale green-yellow colour. Can be eaten fresh when ripe.

Type: Culinary

Season: August-September

Pollination: Partially self-fertile. Pollination group B

George Fox | Apple tree | Potted
George Fox | Apple tree | Potted
from £23.95

A rare dual-purpose variety named after the founder of the Quaker movement. Produces large yellow pink-speckled fruit.

Type: Dessert/Culinary

Season: November-April

Pollination: Partially self-fertile. Pollination group B

Bramley's Seedling | Apple tree | Potted
Bramley's Seedling | Apple tree | Potted
from £23.95

The definitive English cooking apple. This vigorous tree produces large, flat fruit with a vivid green skin and acidic white flesh that cooks down to a smooth puree. Stores well.

Type: Culinary

Season: October-March

Pollination: Self-sterile. Triploid (can’t pollinate others). Pollination group D

Bountiful | Apple tree | Potted
Bountiful | Apple tree | Potted
from £23.95

A mid-season, heavy-cropping culinary apple with a light, sweet, juicy flavour.

Type: Culinary

Season: September-November

Pollination: Self-sterile. Pollination group C

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Blenheim Orange | Apple tree | Potted
from £23.95

A popular dual-purpose variety. A vigorous and hardy tree that produces an abundance of distinctive nutty flavoured fruit.

Type: Dessert/Culinary

Season: September-November

Pollination: Self-sterile. Triploid (can’t pollinate others). Pollination group D

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Ashmead's Kernel | Apple tree | Potted
£23.95

An old green russeted apple with a distinctive aromatic flavour. Also great for cooking, juicing and cider making. Stores well.

Type: Dessert/Culinary/Cider

Season: October-February

Pollination: Self-sterile. Triploid (can’t pollinate others). Pollination group D

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Delivery, Collection and FAQs

  • We deliver bare root trees (dispatched Nov-Apr) but not potted trees. Potted trees are collection only from Leeds (or we can deliver locally by arrangement).

  • See our Delivery & Collection Info page for up-to-date delivery rates.

  • Yes, you can collect your order from Kirkstall, Leeds. We send the full details when you place your order.

  • This varies, but broadly speaking trees classified as Small are 3-4ft and 1 year old. Trees classified as Large are 4-6ft. are 2-3 years old and have some established branches.

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