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Fruit - Eating Apples
Whether you prefer your apples soft, crisp, sweet, or sharp, we have an eating apple variety to suit you! Some are perfect to pick and eat off the tree while others will store well until winter to brighten those dark and dreary days with homemade apple pie.
Many of our trees are available on various rootstocks to suit small or larger gardens and we list the pollination group of every variety to make it easy for you to choose.
Bareroot apple trees | December to March
Most of our apple trees are sold in bareroot form from December to March. You can learn more about the differences between bareroot and potted plants and about getting started growing fruit in our advice section.
Potted apple trees | all year round
Potted apple trees are available at different times throughout the rest of the year, but the best selection, and the best time to plant, is in spring (April to June). Outside of these times our selection is more limited.
Apple Egremont Russet
Apple Egremont Russet
€42.00
Apple Egremont Russet A dessert apple dating back to Victorian times, Malus domestica Egremont Russet is the most popular and widely grown russet-type apple. The tree is small with a bushy habit, and is a good, regular cropper, easy to grow, and a spur-bearer. Suitable for colder, rainier areas; the fruit is very resistant to scab. The fruit is...
Apple Greensleeves
Apple Greensleeves
€42.00
Apple Greensleeves A good modern early dessert apple bred in Kent from James Grieve and Golden Delicious, it more closely resembles the latter. Pale green apples turn yellow as they ripen; the flesh is crisp and juicy, both sweet and tangy, with a pleasant but not outstanding flavour. Best eaten fresh, as the flavour diminishes in store; use any...
Apple Katy
Apple Katy
€42.00
Apple Katy One of the best early to mid-season apple varieties, Apple Katy, aka Katya produces medium-sized, red over yellow-green, with cream-coloured, fairly crisp apples with exceptionally juicy flesh. Good, slightly sharp flavour and very firm skin – good for packed lunches and liked by children. The tree is shapely, even with limited prunin...
Apple Laxton Superb
Apple Laxton Superb
€42.00
Apple Laxton Superb Bred in the early 20th century with Cox’s Orange Pippin as one of its parents, dessert Apple Laxton Superb has Cox-like characteristics, but is far better adapted to cold, exposed areas. The fruit is medium-sized, round, greenish-yellow with red streaks and a deep red flush, slightly russeted. The flesh is white and firm, wit...
Grow It Bio™ Fruit | Organic Plant Food
€0.00
Grow It Bio™ Fruit | Organic Plant Food Grow It Bio™ Fruit is a certified Organic Fruit feed that is rich in nutrients, trace elements and vitamins. This feed promotes microbiological life, improves soil structure and enriches the soil, giving healthier plants and higher yields. A family owned Irish company. BenefitsRich in trace elementsFeeds...
Neudorff Pyrol Bug & Larvae Killer
€10.00
Neudorff Pyrol Bug & Larvae Killer Approved by Organic Farmers & Growers Association, the unique formulation of Pyrol Bug & Larvae Killer controls a wide range of harmful pests including aphids, whitefly, greenfly, spider mites, mealy bugs, scale insects, leaf hoppers and thrips. It also acts on the eggs and larvae of the insects t...
Ocean Leaves Liquid Seaweed Extract
Ocean Leaves Liquid Seaweed Extract
€8.00
Ocean Leaves Liquid Seaweed Extract Ocean Leaves® Liquid Seaweed Extract is made using cold-processed, hand-harvested Irish seaweed. It can be used on fruit, vegetables, flowers, shrubs, trees and lawns. Induces yield increases, enhances plant health & plant quality Increases plant tolerance to, and recovery from abiotic stresses Enhances...
Ocean Leaves, Irish Liquid Seaweed Extract with IRON
€13.50
Ocean Leaves, Irish Liquid Seaweed Extract with IRON Ocean Leaves® Liquid Seaweed Extract + Iron is made using cold-processed, hand-harvested Irish seaweed and has been fortified with Iron (2% EDTA Chelated Iron (fe) w/w). It can be used on fruit, vegetables, flowers and lawns, and is recommended for ericaceous and acid-loving plants. It is used...
Apple Alkmene
Apple Alkmene
€18.00
Apple Alkmene Also known as Early Windsor, dessert apple Malus domestica Alkmene was bred in Germany in the 1920s. The fruit is medium-sized, with yellowish-green skin heavily flushed with red. The creamy-white flesh is very firm and juicy, with a rich, aromatic, tart flavour, reminiscent of a Cox (one of its parents), but sharper and noticeably...
Apple Allington Pippin
Apple Allington Pippin
€18.00
Apple Allington Pippin A long-established, late-season, dual-purpose apple, Malus domestica Allington Pippin has medium-sized fruit, with pale yellow skin flushed with red-orange, with some streaking and russeting. This apple can be used for cooking when first picked; it keeps its shape and has a flavour reminiscent of pears, but sweetens in sto...
Apple American Mother
Apple American Mother
€18.00
Apple American Mother An old dessert apple from 19th century Massachusetts which has stood the test of time. Long, slightly conical, medium-sized fruit, flushed deep red; the flesh is yellowish, soft and juicy with a sweet, aromatic taste, best eaten soon after ripening. Apple American Mother is an upright, moderately vigorous tree, and a spur-b...
Apple Api Noir
Apple Api Noir
€25.00
Apple Api Noir A very old French dessert apple, dating back to the 18th Century, Apple Api Noir is a sport of Apple Api, which originated in the Forest of Api in Brittany. Rather small, flat fruit, flushed very deep red; the flesh is crisp, white and juicy with a sweet, aromatic flavour. Small, upright, spreading tree, and a spur-bearer. Heavy c...
Apple Ard Cairn Russet
Apple Ard Cairn Russet
€18.00
Apple Ard Cairn Russet An old Irish heritage dessert variety, Apple Ard Cairn Russet was discovered in Co. Cork in 1890, and named for the nursery which propagated it. The fruit is round, medium-sized, and a golden russet with an orange-red flush. The flesh is cream-coloured, dry and sweet, lacking acidity, and with a distinctive, banana-like fl...
Apple Ashmead's Kernel
Apple Ashmead's Kernel
€18.00
Apple Ashmead's Kernel A 17th century russet apple, popular for its it's unusual pear like flavour. A good eater that can be cooked and is gaining popularity for its juice, which adds an interesting fruity component to cider. Ashmead's Kernel apples are slightly smaller than average and the shape can be slightly irregular. It is relatively disea...
Apple Bardsey
Apple Bardsey
€18.00
Apple Bardsey Discovered planted against the side of a house on the North Wales pilgrim island of Bardsey in 1998, dessert Apple Bardsey may be a descendant of a medieval monastic orchard. The apples are medium-sized, ribbed, and pink and cream coloured. Juicy and scented of lemon, they are excellent eaten straight from the tree, but can also be...
Apple Beauty of Bath
Apple Beauty of Bath
€22.00
Apple Beauty of Bath An old, very early dessert apple, bred in Somerset and very widely grown in Ireland, where it was especially popular with children. Apple ‘Beauty of Bath’ produces slightly flattened, medium-sized, pale greenish-yellow fruit striped with red, juicy and with a good sharp flavour, the last to ripen being sweeter. The flesh is ...
Apple Ben's Red
Apple Ben's Red
€18.00
Apple Ben’s Red A seedling of Devonshire Quarrenden bred in Cornwall in the 1830s, early dessert Apple Ben’s Red is very like its parent, but with a better flavour. Medium-sized, flattened round fruit, pale yellowish green with a heavy maroon flush and a few russet dots; the flesh is pink-tinged, crisp, juicy and sweet, with a taste reminiscent ...
Apple Blood of the Boyne
Apple Blood of the Boyne
€18.00
Apple Blood of the Boyne Once widely grown in Meath, Apple Blood of the Boyne may not be an Irish heritage apple, as it is thought to be identical to Devonshire Quarrenden, an old apple from the English west country. An early dessert apple, the fruit is small, round and a vivid purplish blood-colour. This is an apple to be eaten fresh from the...
Apple Braeburn
Apple Braeburn
€18.00
Apple Braeburn A red flushed, crisp, sweet and juicy apple which requires a sunny, well-sheltered position, Braeburn was discovered in a New Zealand orchard in the 1950s. It is a late blooming tree (Pollination Group 4) which is partially self-fertile. Apples are ready for picking in October and will keep until March. Braeburn is a very importan...
Apple Brown Crofton
Apple Brown Crofton
€18.00
Apple Brown Crofton An Irish heritage variety of dessert apple, bred by the Crofton family of Longford House, Sligo. Slightly flattened, round, medium-sized fruit, greenish-yellow with dark red flush and stripes, overlaid with russeting; the flesh has a rich, sweet and sharp flavour, improving the longer it is left on the tree. Vigorous, upright...