Self Fertile Apple Trees

Self Fertile Apple Trees for Sale

Grow delicious Self Fertile apples at home with our wide selection of eating apple trees. We offer both traditional favourites and modern varieties, selected for excellent flavour, reliable cropping and suitability for UK gardens.

Choose from a range of apple varieties, rootstocks and tree forms to suit gardens of all sizes, including bush trees, cordons, espaliers and stepovers. Many varieties are available as bare root apple trees during the winter planting season, with container-grown trees also available.

Whether you're looking for a crisp early-season apple, a classic Cox-style flavour, a sweet dessert apple or a variety that stores well into winter, you'll find an excellent choice below.

Not sure which apple tree to choose? Use our rootstock guide to select the right eventual tree size and our pollination guide to find compatible varieties.

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ROOTSTOCK GUIDE

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POLLINATION MADE SIMPLE

Most suburban situations provide good pollen due to the close proximity of other gardens. It is not always necessary to have pollinators if the bees and other pollinating insects are generous with their visits. If you have no other Apple tree close by then select two varieties in the same group or the adjoining group ie group 2 and 4 will pollinate group 3 as will any others in group 3. Some varieties of Apples are self fertile.

Pollination Table

A GUIDE TO CHOOSING THE RIGHT TREE

1 Year Maiden = A one year old tree and the size depends on the variety but in general they will be 125cm in height and will have some side branches.

2 Year Tree = A two year old tree that has been pruned back in the first winter to form a bush shape. Generally trees will be 140-160cm in height with multiple side branches. This height guide is an end of summer height.

3 Year Tree = A three year old tree that has been pruned to form a bush shape. Generally trees will be 140-160cm in height with multiple side branches. This height guide is an end of summer height.

2 Year Cordon = The term cordon simply refers to a single stem with short sideshoots (the fruiting spurs). This is usually trained angled to 45 degrees (oblique cordon), but can be trained singly vertically (also known as minarette)

2 Tier Espaliers - The term espalier refers to the way fruit trees are trained to grow against a wall. It makes the tree easier to prune and the fruit easier to pick. This decorative method was often used in traditional walled kitchen gardens and is perfectly suited to growing fruit in the smaller garden.

Stepovers - Cultivated since Victorian times, they are basically one tier espaliers that are low enough to simply ‘step over’ where necessary. These are useful to define borders with. Their short stem and a horizontal branch look equally good in front of ornamental borders or vegetables.

Apple Christmas Pippin

Dessert Apple - Christmas Pippin is an exceptionally high quality eating experience. We would happily say this is the ‘new garden Cox’ but unlike this classic vintage variety, Christmas Pippin flowers and crops heavily. Delicious honey-flavoured fruit with creamy flesh, sweet and high in sugar content. Thin, orange flushed skin, juicy and crisp texture. A suitable garden variety for beginners as it's easy to grow. The apples store well until Christmas, so perfect for the Christmas Day apple pie or crumble! History: First introduced in 2011 after it was discovered growing beside a road in an orchard in Somerset. The parentage is unknown, but there is clearly a resemblance to Cox's Orange Pippin.

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Apple Coxs Orange Pippin

Dessert Apple - Regarded by many as the best of all eating apples. Aromatic, juicy, crisp with superb flavour. This variety is now self fertile. Fruits are golden, flushed with orange to red medium size fruits. Requires a favourable site. Pollination group 3.

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Apple Pinova

Dessert Apple - The new wonder Apple, Pinova is a red sport of Evelina®. Self fertile. Has excellent flavour with Cox and Golden Delicious as parents. Fruits store well and hang on the tree late. Has excellent resistance to both mildew and scab so is an ideal choice for the organic grower. Picking time late September. Pollination group 3

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Apple Queen Cox

Dessert Apple - A self-fertile clone that needs no other variety for pollination. A more highly coloured clone of Cox's Orange Pippin that was discovered at Appleby Fruit Farm, Kingston Bagpuize, Berkshire and then received by the National Fruit Trials in 1953. It has all the same benefits and taste as Cox's Orange Pippin but the fruits are more coloured with an aromatic flavour. Pollination group 3.

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Apple Red Falstaff

Dessert Apple Red Falstaff – A superb garden variety producing heavy crops of attractive bright red apples with crisp, juicy and flavoursome flesh. Self-fertile and easy to grow, with good disease resistance and frost tolerance, Red Falstaff is an excellent choice for reliable home-grown apples. This outstanding variety has received the RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM). Pick from late September. Pollination Group 3.

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Apple Scrumptious

Dessert Apple Scrumptious fruit trees - Scrumptious was bred from a cross between Golden Delicious and Discovery by Hugh Ermen in the early 1980's. An excellent early dessert apple with a fragrant honeyed flavour. Scrumptious is a self fertile apple. With very good disease and frost resistance this make an ideal apple tree for any garden. Pollination Group 3.

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Apple Sunset

Dessert Apple - Raised in approximately 1918 by G C Addy at Ightham, Kent. It received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1960. An excellent heavy cropping garden apple that is hardy and compact with very good disease resistance. The fruits are gold with red stripes and have a firm, crisp, fine textured flesh with a good aromatic Cox like flavour, which is sharp and intense. Picking time late September. Pollination group 3.

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Apples, what can be nicer than eating the fruits grown in your garden fresh from the tree? We have many new and old traditional varieties available. If you only have space for one tree then all varieties in this section are self fertile. We supply the highest quality fruit trees and plants and pack them with great care.