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Heritage apple varieties on SEMI-DWARFING rootstock. These apples are ideal a free-standing tree, rather than espaliering. They are a little more vigorous than our dwarfing trees.
Semi-dwarfing Apples There are 23 products.
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$29.00Mutsu Semi-Dwarfing Ripens: May - June
Fruit tend to be green all over, medium to large in size and very heavy regular cropping. Mutsu originated in Japan in the 1940's, an offspring of Golden Delicious. The flesh is crunch and extremely juicy with a sprightly (some say fruit salad) flavour that's unique. An apple that seems to satisfy all tastes, as we're always getting good feedback about it...
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$29.00Calville Blanc D'Hiver Semi-Dwarfing Ripens: May - June
Apart from being a famous culinary apple, it's well known for making excellent cider. Sharp. Dating back to the 1600's in Normandy, France. Under an irregular yellowish russeted skin, it has an appealing aromatic flesh. Tip-bearing. Needs pollination from other varieties.
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$29.00Huonville Crab Semi-dwarfing Ripens: April - May
This quite a remarkable apple, with scarlet red flesh, covered by a scarlet red skin that shines up when pollished. Small, palm-sized fruit, and a sweetnes offset by a faint crab-apple tartness. The leaves are purple-green and the sap is red too. Quite amazing! The tree is quite vigorous and bears heavily.We discovered this tree as a seedling - a huge old...
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$29.00Lord Lambourne Semi-dwarfing Ripens: March - April
A cross between James Grieve and Worcester Pearmain. Often used to be marketed as Cox's Orange Pippin and is of comparable high quality, but a much easier apple to grow and one of the few apples considered to be self pollinating. Orange flush over green skin, with a hint of russet. Flesh creamy white, juicy and well flavoured. Matures late March just...
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$29.00Granny Smith Semi-dwarfing Ripens: June - July
This famous apple originated as a chance seedling in the back garden of a Mrs. Mary Anne Smith of Ryde near Sydney around 1860. It's thought to be the offspring of a variety called 'French Crab' which it closely resembles. Granny's are large and very green with prominent dots on the skin. The white flesh is very crisp, juicy and acid. Unfortunately the...
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$29.00Gravenstein Semi-dwarfing Ripens: January - February
An excellent early apple, grown commercially widely accross the world, and still available in many parts of Australia in local markets. Good sized fruit, when ripe the Gravenstein is red and green, with a orange-yellow stripe and ultra crisp. Sweet juicy crunchy flesh, it's destinct flavour signals the beginning of the apple season in earnest. Polishes...
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$29.00Mcintosh Semi-dwarfing Ripens: March - April
One of the world's most famous apples originating around 1800 in Ontario, Canada. It's a bright red apple, roundish shaped that fits gently into the hand, with a bit of stripe or fleck in the colouring. It has sweet scented white flesh, occasionally with pink streaks. It at least partially self fertile and and a good provider of pollen. Probably...
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$29.00Pink Lady Semi-dwarfing Ripens: June - July
Most people will know Pink Lady because of it's popularity Australia wide. It's has fairly large fruit with excellent appearance, pink to pale red blush over a yellow background. Nicely flavoured pale yellow firm flesh. Matures very late and stores very well. Presently Australia's most famous apple: 3rd generation Australian, starting from Rokewood -->...
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$29.00Bramley's Seedling Semi-dwarfing Ripens: March - April
England's most popular cooking apple - and for good reason - when cooked produces a puree that is unsurpassable both in texture and flavour. It has a firm tart acid flesh, with green skin flushed brownish-red on the sunny side. The fruit are large in size with a slightly irregular shape. Stores very well.
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$29.00Braeburn Semi-dwarfing Ripens: May - June
A NZ apple of high quality and flavour, maturing late. One of the crispest with juicy flesh and a nice sweet/tart balance. The fruit are quite long and blocky in shape with attractive red stripes on a yellow background. Braeburn has become a very popular commercial apple in the UK. Suitable for low-chill conditions.
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$29.00Court Pendu Plat Semi-dwarfing Ripens: May - June
This is considered the oldest apple known, introduced into Europe in Roman times. Small in size, yellow skin flushed with orange and red, sometimes russet. Brisk acid flavour when first picked, mellowing to sweet and fully flavoured as it matures. Flowers late (avoids frost) and just superb considering it's about 1500 years old!
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$29.00Freyberg Semi-dwarfing Ripens: May - June
An amazing apple, drawing qualities from both it's parents - Golden Delicious and Cox's Orange Pippin. So it's easy to see why is so widely enjoyed. Medium sized fruit, the skin a lovely greenish yellow and has the tiny russet fleck similar to a Golden. It ripens midseason and hangs well on the tree.
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$29.00Sturmer Semi-dwarfing Ripens: June - July
Feedback from our customers rates Sturmer as one of the most satisfying apples to grow. It's extremely late, very acid, and is really a great all rounder - eaten fresh, cooked, juiced or made into cider. By modern standards it's no beauty; with orange/yellow russeted skin, a dense yellowish flesh, and medium in size. It's a very heavy cropper and stores...
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$29.00Bonza Semi-Dwarfing Ripens: March - April
A seedling of Jonathan from Batlow NSW discovered in the 1920's by Ben Atkinson, Bonza is a favourite Australian apple. It's a medium sized, highly flavoured, red apple that ripens mid season. It has a conical shapeand when ripe hangs on the tree in very good condition for over a month. It also stores well. Suitable for low-chill conditions.
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$29.00Fuji Semi-Dwarfing Ripens: June - July
A well known variety developed in Japan from it's parent Red Delicious. An attractive red skin, crisp yellowish flesh, uncomplicated deep sweet flavour and is always predictably juicy. Medium to large sized fruit. Fuji stores well - improving in quality and flavour. A thoroughly modern apple, and one of the latest maturing varieties. Suitable for...
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$29.00Ida Red Semi-Dwarfing Ripens: May - June
A very handsome late ripening, deep red apple - a cross between Jonathan and Wagener from Idaho USA in 1942. Crisp flesh and an uncomplicated sweet / acid tasting flesh. Great cooked as well as eaten fresh and stores exceptionally well.
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$29.00Royal Gala Semi-dwarfing Ripens: February - March
A medium sized red striped yellow apple with a terrific crunch and reliably pleasant sweet flavour. It's become quiet well known in Australia, being for sale in many of our shops and supermarkets. It's actually about 90 years old, developed by New Zealander John Kidd in the 1930's as a cross between a Golden Delicious and another one of his selections,...
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$29.00Golden Delicious Semi-dwarfing Ripens: March - April
Allowed to ripen on the tree, the Golden Delicious develops into a large yellow coloured apple bursting with crunch, juice and sweetness. Often a splash of russet near the stem, tiny specks over the skin and an orange blush on the sunny side. Stores well. Discovered in USA at the end of the 1800's. An entirely better experience when left to ripen on the...
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$29.00Jonagold Semi-dwarfing Ripens: May - June
A cross between Golden Delicious and Jonathan, Jonagold grows medium to large red fruit of intense flavour. The creamy yellow flesh is light, terrifically crunchy and memorably juicy. Solid Red skin with some yellow tones, and maybe a little stripe. Creamy The flavour has the tantalising taste of both parents. Ripens quite late and excellent keeper. If...
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$29.00Pomme De Neige Semi-dwarfing Ripens: March - April
Also known as Snow apple, Lady in the Snow, Fameuse, Chimney Apple and about 20 other names which reflects its popularity and how widely distributed this variety is. Originated around 1730 in Quebec, Canada an offspring of McIntosh. The attractive smallish fruit have red sometimes striped skin on a background of pale red and green. The flesh is very white
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$29.00Cox's Orange Pippin RED Semi-dwarfing Ripens: February - March
This must be the world's most revered apple, originating in Buckinghamshire England in 1825, thought to be an offspring of Ribston Pippin. An attractive red variation with with the characteristic cox's russet around the collar. Crisp juicy flesh when ripe, with a richness that is difficult to describe except it has all the qualities that make it amazing...
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$29.00Geeveston Fanny semi-dwarfing Ripens: March - April
A small attractive bright reddish purple apple with white sweet flesh. Ideal for lunchboxes. Heavy and regular bearer. This variety was popular as a commercial apple during the 1970's in Tasmania. The story goes like this: about 1870 Mr Hawkins, the storekeeper at Shipwrights Point near Huonville imported 6 apple trees of unknown variety and sold them to...
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$29.00Discovery Semi-Dwarfing Ripens: January - February
An early apple popular in the UK. Found in Essex in the 1940's it's a seedling of Worcester Pearmain. Like other early apples, the flavour is light and an on the acid side, but crisp and juicy. An attractive round shape if a little squat. It develops a bright red cheek over a light greenish yellow background. Well worth considering as an early eating apple.
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