Apple Family Tree (James Grieve & Kidd's Orange Red)

ESTIMATED READY IN AUTUMN 

Our family trees are a clever way of growing more fruit in a small place as they have more than one variety of apple grafted on one tree!  

We have selected two complimenting varieties that will work together in terms of pollination and vigour to achieve a lovely balanced shape and to fill the fruit bowl.

JAMES GRIEVE

Raised by James Grieve in Edinburgh, Scotland and introduced by his employers, Dickson’s nurserymen. Fruits have sweet, delicious, juicy flesh with a good refreshing flavour.  A good apple to store but the fruits will become softer as they are stored.

KIDD'S ORANGE RED

A mid season apple raised in 1924 in New Zealand and introduced into England c1932.  One of the finest flavoured dessert apples. The medium sized fruit are crisp. sweet, aromatic and juicy.  There is also a more highly coloured sport of this variety called "Captain Kidd".