Gloucestershire Apples


In addition to the Gloucestershire apples in the main listings, we have a selection of old and rare apples, originating in Gloucestershire and kindly made available to us by the Gloucestershire Orchard Group. For those wishing to plant local, traditional, varieties in Gloucestershire we hope they will be of interest.


These trees are only grafted in modest numbers. Some will be available at any time of year, but others might have to be grafted to order, on the rootstock of your choice. We graft in the early part of the year and trees are then ready to go in the autumn of that year.

 

Arlingham Schoolboys
Medium sized, triple purpose apple, with red flush. Keeps to November.

Berkeley Pippin
Medium sized cider and dessert apple. Irregular shape.

Blood Royal
Small to medium, triple purpose, deep red skin.

Bushy French
Small to medium cider apple. Late season, late flowering. Russeted, yellow and red striped.

Cambridge Queening
Cider 'sharp' becoming dessert later.Irregular and ribbed with red stripes and flecks.

Corse Hill
Cider apple also used for cooking and dessert. Long, conical and green.

Dymock Red
Old cider apple also used for dessert. Red, irregular and medium sized.

Eden
Medium sized, mid to late dessert. Bright red.

Elmore Pippin
Medium sized late dessert apple. Green with brown flush.

Gloucester Royal
Dessert, late season keeping to December. Small to medium with red blush and stripes.

Gloucester Underleaf
Small to medium, yellow, triple purpose. Stores to November.

Green Two Year Old
Triple purpose. late season and long storing. Medium size, green with red blush.

Hagloe Crab
Cider bittersweet. Small, red and brown flush. Stores to January.

Hunt's Duke of Gloucester
Dessert and cider, small to medium, gold with light russet, storing to January.

Lemon Roy
Large culinary apple with pale green skin flushed red.

Lodgemore Nonpareil
Cider and dessert, sweet, late season, storing to December.

Longney Russet
Cider sweet and dessert, medium sized, russet sometimes red blushed. Late season storing to February.
 Old Tankard
Cider, becoming dessert by January. Large irregular, green yellow skin.

Over Apple
Medium to large, sweet cider apple. Late season, grenn yellow flat ribbed. Stores to December.

Overleaf
Cider sharp, mid season, medium sized, green yellow with russet.

Phelp's Favourite
Triple purpose, large green with red markings, crisp and sweet. Late season storing to December.

Port Wine Kernel
Sweet dessert, medium sized, green to yellow with red streaks.

Red Two Year Old
Triple purpose, medium sized, round with green skin flushed red. Late season, sharp becoming milder with storage.

Rhead's Reinette
Late dessert, medium sized, yellow with red streaks, rich.

Shilling
Dessert, early to mid season, medium to large, long and green with red stripes, storing to November.

Siddington Russet
Culinary and dessert, medium to large, yellow with russet. Late season.

Spout Apple
Medium sized dessert, yellow with russet patches, late season, keeping to January.

Sugar Pippin
Late season dessert, small sweet and round, green with some russet. Stores to December.

Taynton Codlin
Large triple purpose, yellow skin and russet, late season storing to December.

Tewkesbury Baron
Dessert, also used for cider and cooking. Medium to large, green with streaks and blush of red. Mid season storing to October.

Tippetts
Triple purpose, primarily culinary. Large and long, irregular, yellow sometimes striped red. Late season, storing to January.

Transparent Codlin
Culinary and dessert, medium sized with yellow skin, ribbed and irregular. Early season, August onwards.

Upright French
Cider bittersweet, mid season, green yellow sometimes striped. Round to tall.