Claygate Permain

1821, Surrey

A rich and aromatic flavoured eating apple that was grown in most Victorian and Edwardian country house gardens. Branch bent over showing flower and fruit-bud formation on horizontal branches

Ashmead's Kernel

c1731, Gloucestershire

Eating apple with a strong, sweet-sharp intense flavour. Fruit has a slight russet appearance and should store well.

Duke of Devonshire

1835, Cumbria

Popular Edwardian apple with an intense sweet-sharp flavour.

Cox Cymraeg

Wales

Unlike Cox's Orange Pippin, this variety is easy to grow and is disease resistant. It produces a medium fruit with excellent balance of sweetness and acidity.

Bardsey Island

North Wales

A rare and unique variety from Bardsey Island. Medium eating apple with lemon aromas. The sweet fruit will keep till November

Anglesey Pig Snout

Welsh cooking apple

Nottingham Pippin

1815, Nottinghamshire

Strongly flavoured almost russet like fruit. A good tree for training as an espalier or fan-shaped tree as the apples are fairly flat with a long stalk. This helps them  to hang clear of the branch.

Lane's Prince Albert

c1841, Hertfordshire

Late cooking apple which can also be used to make juice or artisan cider. Lovely blossom in mid-may.

Michelin

1872 France

An old French cider variety with deep pink blossom. Very upright tree for a small garden.

Apples stay on tree until December. 

Warner's King

late 1700s, Kent

One of the most popular cooking apples in Victorian times. Similar flavour to Bramley, but a less vigorous tree makes it a better choice for a garden

Scotch Bridget

c1851, Scotland

Cooking and cider apple. A hardy tree that grows well in poorer soils or in exposed places

Lovely white blossom in early May

Tom Putt

late 1700s, Dorset

Cooking and cider apple. Tree grows well in poor soils and will produce a traditional ‘goblet shape’ if pruned carefully.

Winston

1920, Berkshire

Derived from a Cox’s cross to give a sharper and richer apple flavour. Apples will store until the New Year to give a mellower flavour

Newton Wonder

c1870, Derbyshire

Dual purpose cooking and eating apple if left on tree to ripen. The large fruits are good in savoury salads. 

Pitmaston Pineapple

1785, Hereford

Very small eating apple with an intense sweet-sharp, nutty and almost pineapple flavour. A small tree that would  make a lovely ornamental feature in a garden

Nant Gwythern

North Wales

Ellison's Orange

c1904, Lincolnshire

Eating apple described as ‘at best glorious’. Lovely dainty shape makes this an ideal garden tree.

Bramley

1809, Nottinghamshire

Well known cooking apple that produces a lovely pale cream puree. Tree growth can be very vigorous and pruning should only be done sparingly. Not suitable for small/medium gardens.

Bess Pool

1700s, Nottinghamshire

Named after an inn-keepers daughter who found the tree in a hedgerow. Fruit has a lovely crimson flush, and was widely used in Victorian fruit displays.

Katy

1947 Sweden

Blenheim Orange

c1740, Oxfordshire

Cooking and eating apple, good with cheese and for making apple charlotte. Strong tree with the limbs reputedly used to make cog wheels for trains.

Cox's Orange Pippin

1825 Buckinghamshire

James Grieve

1893, Edinburgh

Baron Ward

1850, Nottinghamshire

Small cooking apple that keeps its shape when cooked. Would make good tarte tatin.

Beauty of Stoke

1889, Nottinghamshire

Cooking apple with a sweet firm flesh.

Court Pendu Plat

1613, France

Valued for centuries as a dessert apple which will keep and mellow to an intense flavour in the New Year. A small tree makes this a good choice for borders or to grow in large pots.

Pig Aderyn

Welsh cooking apple with distinctive long  ‘pig’s snout’-shaped apples.