Red Windsor® Apple Tree
The Highlights
- The perfect apple? Red Windsor has nailed the exact spot between sweet and sharp, making it widely considered one of the best flavoured red apples you can get.
- Red Windsor is also known as 'Sweet Lilibet'. Adorable.
- It's a top performing mid season variety which is easy to grow, frost hardy, self fertile, compact and resistant to pests
- Looks like an apple drawn by a child - bright red with a little russet striping and a slightly-squashed, cox-like shape. Seriously, it's like the apple in Snow White.
- Grows to just 3m tall (smaller if pruned) so it's great for small gardens and is happy in a large container
- Produces much more spring blossom than average, so it'll attract bees and butterflies to your garden
- Our tree guru, John, says "Red Windsor is an ideal first apple tree for beginners because it's so reliable and quick to crop - you could be tasting your first apples in less than a year."
- Our potted trees are supplied in EcoPots™.
- Our trees are usually between 18 and 36 months old at the time of dispatch.
- Our trees are professionally pruned before dispatching.
The Highlights
- The perfect apple? Red Windsor has nailed the exact spot between sweet and sharp, making it widely considered one of the best flavoured red apples you can get.
- Red Windsor is also known as 'Sweet Lilibet'. Adorable.
- It's a top performing mid season variety which is easy to grow, frost hardy, self fertile, compact and resistant to pests
- Looks like an apple drawn by a child - bright red with a little russet striping and a slightly-squashed, cox-like shape. Seriously, it's like the apple in Snow White.
- Grows to just 3m tall (smaller if pruned) so it's great for small gardens and is happy in a large container
- Produces much more spring blossom than average, so it'll attract bees and butterflies to your garden
- Our tree guru, John, says "Red Windsor is an ideal first apple tree for beginners because it's so reliable and quick to crop - you could be tasting your first apples in less than a year."
- Our potted trees are supplied in EcoPots™.
- Our trees are usually between 18 and 36 months old at the time of dispatch.
- Our trees are professionally pruned before dispatching.
Care Guide
Water in well when planting - read on for ongoing care
Water in thoroughly when planting. For bare root trees, you won't need to water regularly going forward, only water in dry spells when needed. You should be able tell because the leaves will start to wilt and droop. If a container grown tree, it will need more watering until its roots are established. It should be watered every other day or so for the first few months. Then reduce to twice a week until autumn. In the second year it should have a established enough root system to support itself, just water when required as explained above for bare roots. When watering a tree it is important to give a good soaking. It is better to water heavy and less frequently than little and often as this encourages the roots to grow down into the ground.
No need to feed
Don't worry, this isn't a hungry plant so your food bills won't be going up!
For more care tips and ideas visit our Knowledge page
Planting Calendar
- Best time to plant
- Harvest
- Flower