The Fruitful Forest Garden Nursery

Scotlands premier forest garden nursery for North hardy perennial edible plants

Apple and crab apple trees

Sunset and Golden DeliciousMM1064-5m£50.00
Sunset and Golden Delicious grafted onto one stock and will cross pollinate to produce two great tasting apples on one tree.  Great for where space is restricted.  Sunset is 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 through to December.    Golden Delicious when allowed to ripen on the tree to a golden yellow-green colour is exceptionally sweet and rich, almost like eating raw sugar cane.  Golden Delicious is also a versatile apple, and can be used both for dessert and cooking purposes.  Harvest Oct through to March.
Bloody PloughmanMM1064-5m£35.00
The fruits are crisp and juicy and when fully ripe can darken to an almost purple colour. Cooker, eater, juice and cider.  It makes lovely apple sauce and beautiful pink pies and crumbles. The tree is disease resistant and hardy, performing well in colder areas of the UK. Pollination group C.  Season late nov/dec to April
ClydesideMM1064-5m£35.00
A cooker from the Clyde Valley, big green, tough, a slight flush.  Pick late september.
Coul blushM262.5-3m£35.00
Coul Blush is an early dual-purpose apple. Fruit is delicately flushed over a golden colour. Sweet, soft cream flesh thats lightly flavoured. Can be used as a cooker if used early, cooks to a brisk, lemon froth. Known as an endangered apple and in 2011, Highland Council put out a long lost search to see if the apple was still planted in any orchards throughout the Highlands.  Pollination group 2
Coxs Orange pippinM262.5-3m£35.00
Considered the best tasting of all apples, the fruit is juicy and sweet with a typical mellow ‘Cox’ taste. Deep red flush, excellent keeper. Pollination group 3.
Coxs Orange pippinM91.7-2.5m£35.00
Considered the best tasting of all apples, the fruit is juicy and sweet with a typical mellow ‘Cox’ taste. Deep red flush, excellent keeper. Pollination group 3.
DiscoveryM91.7-2.5m£35.00
The sweet flavour of Discovery apples is often likened to strawberries, making them popular with both children and adults. They have beautiful smooth, red skin and crisp, sweet, pink flesh. Discovery Apple trees are a fantastic early cropping variety, with the juicy red dessert apples ripening in August and best eaten straight from the tree. Pollination group B
GalaM262.5-3m£35.00
Golden yellow fruits that are flushed scarlet and ready for eating from late october to January.  The fruits have a creamy white, sweet and juicy flesh.
Hoods SuperemeMM1064-5m£35.00
Eater. Raised in 1924 by Miss B Y Hood at Edzell, Angus. Very sweet, coarse, soft flesh.  Pollination group D
Howgate WonderMM1064-5m£35.00
An attractive culinary apple, primrose yellow, lightly flushed pinky red. Cooks to a creamy, well flavoured, brisk puree. A spreading tree. Hardy but prone to mildew.
JonagoldM91.7-2.5m£35.00
This is a cross between a Jonathan and a Golden Delicious, yellow with large flushes of red. It is a triploid apple so needs two other apples to cross polinate with.  The flavour is sweet but with a lot of balancing acidity – a very pleasant apple.
Maggie SinclairMM1064-5m£35.00
A beautiful and prolific late season cooker from Clydeside.
Pitmaston PineappleM91.7-2.5m£35.00
A small russet apple with a powerful nutty flavour, honey sweet yet also sharp. They are a notably scab resistant breed. Pollination group C.  From the West Midlands, UK
Pitmaston PineappleMM1064-5m£35.00
A small russet apple with a powerful nutty flavour, honey sweet yet also sharp. They are a notably scab resistant breed. Pollination group C.  From the West Midlands, UK
Red DevilMM1064-5m£35.00
Red Devil is a stunning eating variety. As the name suggests, this apple has a striking red flush! Strong, fruity taste and superb fruity strawberry flavour. Red stained flesh when it’s fully ripe that procudes an incredible pink juice! Highly decorative and an excellent garden variety. The interesting name was inspired by the ‘Red Devil’ parachute display team. A healthy tree with a good disease resistance.
RedspurM92m£35.00
Dwarf patio fruit trees that grows only to a height of 2m tall. This variety will produce an impressive harvest of full-sized, sweetly flavoured fruits. Red Spur is fully cold-hardy and has a columnar, upright habit making it the perfect feature plant for gardens or patios with limited space. This cultivar is also self-fertile meaning that it can produce fruits all by itself
St Edmunds RussetM262.5-3m£35.00
St Edmunds Russet originates from Bury St Edmunds and is one of the best English mid-season russet apple varieties. Pale-greenish yellow, becoming golden with a red russet and silvery sheen. Sweet, juicy, rich, densely textured and a pale cream flesh. Saint Edmund’s Russet is a good variety for cider and juice!
White MelroseM262.5-3m£35.00
White Melrose is a Scottish cooking apple.  Large, ribbed with pale green-yellow fruit. Tender and juicy with a sweet, sharp flavour when cooked. Delicious baked into apple pie, crumble or sauces etc. Heavy cropping and a spreading and vigorous tree.  Pollination group 2.  Grown prior to 1600s by Monks of Melrose.
Winter BananaM262.5-3m£35.00
Winter Bananas have sweet, softly crisp, slightly grainy flesh and they are excellent for making juice or for use as the sweet element in a cider brew.  Require a sheltered and sunny site. You can pick Winter Banana apples in early October and they will store until the end of January, reaching their be st flavour after a couple of weeks ripening off the tree.  Pollination group D.
Winter BananaM91.7-2.5m£35.00
Winter Bananas have sweet, softly crisp, slightly grainy flesh and they are excellent for making juice or for use as the sweet element in a cider brew.  Require a sheltered and sunny site. You can pick Winter Banana apples in early October and they will store until the end of January, reaching their be st flavour after a couple of weeks ripening off the tree.  Pollination group D.
CRAB APPLEJohn DownieM256-10m£35.00
One of the most popular crab apples for jelly making! Pink buds open to reveal pretty white cup shaped blossom in April and May, followed by large orange and red fruits in autumn. Crab Apple ‘John Downie’ makes an attractive and productive specimen tree for smaller gardens, with a long season of interest. Crab apple fruits can be harvested to make delicious crab apple jelly. Any unpicked fruits will soften after a few frosts to create a sumptuous food source for wild birds. Crab apples are self fertile and if planted near orchard apple trees make excellent pollinators. Rootstock: M25. Height and spread: 5m.
CRAB APPLERed SentinelM91.7-2.5m£40.00
A small rounded very ornamental tree, with dark green leaves that turn bronzed yellow in the autumn. White blushed, fragrant flowers emerge from pink buds in April followed by large bright red fruits, which often last all through winter. A true bird feeder from nature, the fruit laden shoots can also be cut for Christmas decoration. Knip (spindlebush) are dwarfing trees that are pruned and trained to be significantly more productive that typical garden fruit trees.