Apple Family Tree - (Cox Orange Pippin, Greensleeves & King Russet)

ESTIMATED READY IN AUTUMN 

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

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

Cox Orange Pippin

Raised in about 1825 by Richard Cox at Colnbrook Lawn, Slough, Buckinghamshire and introduced by Charles Turner in about 1850. It received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1962. Fruits are juicy and sweet with a rich, aromatic, nutty flavour.

Greensleeves

Greensleeves is a cross from Golden Delicious with James Grieve and another success story bred at East Malling Research Station in Kent.  The apples are of good size, lime green in colour with small patches of golden brown russet.  The flesh is crunchy, sweet and juicy with a nice tang. The trees will tolerate cooler climes and are a reliable and heavy cropper.

King Russet

A russetted form of King of the Pippins. It was discovered in the late 1950s at Rookery Farm, Bordon, Hampshire, England. Fruits have a distinct russet flavour; nutty and slightly tangy.