Cross Pollinating Apple Trees | Perfect Partners
Guarantee your apple yields
Grown by John
South Downs National Park
Pre-order for delivery Late November
Perfectly happy plants, or your money back
Specialist overnight plant delivery
The highlights
- Cross-pollination ensures fruit production
- Both varieties produce dual-purpose apples
- Fact: two trees are better than one!
- Attract more bees to your garden
Description
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In this collection, you’ll receive:
- 1 ‘James Grieve’ Apple Tree
- 1 ‘Bountiful’ Apple Tree
- You’ve got your apple tree. Great! It’s not producing any fruit. Not great. Cue muffled screams into a pillow. Okay, take a moment and just think, what to do…
- The answer lies in cross-pollination, and we’ve got just the thing for you in the shape of this two-tree collection.
- ‘Bountiful’ isn’t self-fertile and therefore needs cross-pollinating with another variety in order to bear fruit. And whilst ‘James Grieve’ is partially self-fertile, yields will be much better when grown near another pollinating partner.
- It’s a kind of “you scratch my bark and I’ll scratch yours” situation; both trees are in adjoining pollination groups (2 and 3) which means they’re able to pollinate one another.
- So if you want to be certain that your apple trees actually bear fruit, rather than leaving it on a bee’s wing and a prayer, then your best bet is to get a couple of these trees and plant them in your garden.
- Besides their cross-pollinating prowess, these varieties produce excellent fruit in their own right. ‘James Grieve’ is an award-winning, green, eating apple variety that produces fruit with a real melt-in-your-mouth quality.
- ‘Bountiful’ produces blush-coloured apples with a more delicate flavour than you’d expect from what was originally, in fact, grown as a cooking apple.
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Watch now
3 secrets to choosing the perfect apple tree
Neil Franklin, an orchardist at Brogdale (home of the the national collection of fruit trees) takes Alex through the most important decisions you have to make when choosing an apple tree. Neil also discusses 4 of his favourite apple varieties to grow, including the best for cooking, juicing, keeping and eating fresh!
Taste is everything
A chef's review of 4 of the best tasting apples
Jess Young, an East London based chef, takes us through 4 of her top varieties of apple to cook with, and gives us some ideas of how she might use them in the kitchen.
South Downs National Park
Meet John
110 years' expertise free with every tree
John’s family have been growing trees in the South Downs National Park for over a century, and it shows. Dug up and sent straight to your garden at between 18-36 months old, their quality rootstocks, expert pruning and natural pest control mean that these traditionally field-grown trees are the hardiest you can get.
Learn from our experts
Self Pollinating Apple Trees? Your Guide to Apple Pollination Groups
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The delivery timescale for each plant is on the web page (near the 'add to basket's button). You'll receive a dispatch email with an exact delivery date once your plants are on their way, so you can get the garden ready.
How will my plants be packed and delivered?
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We deliver to anywhere in Mainland UK for our standard delivery cost. We are able to deliver most plants to Highlands and non UK mainland however this will be at an additional cost. This will be calculated at the checkout. Please note, deliveries to these locations will take longer. Unfortunately, we are not able to deliver to Northern Ireland at present.
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I have ordered plants from them twice this year. They arrived well packaged, on time and looked strong and healthy. I feel the staff from Roots plants deal with their plants and customers with passion and care. I can’t wait to order again, price is good as well.
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Delivered quickly, perfectly packaged and the tree was in excellent condition. Really healthy and taken to the garden with no problems. Can't recommend highly enough. 5 stars isn't enough!
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