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Bacterial canker
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Silverleaf
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Mildew
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Fireblight
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Woolly aphid
Cedar apple rust
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Brown rot
Bitter pit
Plum pox virus
- Very resistant (1)
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Plum fruit moth
Fruit splitting
It is tempting to check all the disease resistance options, but we recommend caution as doing so will greatly limit the varieties available to you. Instead only select the diseases you know are an issue in your area, and note also that 'disease-resistant' does not mean 'disease-proof'. Serious disease problems are fortunately quite rare in the home or community orchard situation.
Tree results
- Apple trees
Adam's Pearmain
Adam's Pearmain is a popular Victorian-era English apple with a distinctive 'pearmain' shape. - Apple trees
Arthur Turner
A mid-season cooking apple, producing a light yellow puree. Very attractive blossom. - Apple trees
Ashmead's Kernel
A versatile English russet apple from the 17th century, Ashmead's Kernel is noted for its distinctive pear-like flavour. - Plum trees
Avalon
Avalon is a large mid-season red/purple plum, similar to Victoria, with a very good flavour. - Plum trees
Belle de Louvain
Belle de Louvain is a large purple culinary plum, useful because it can be grown on north-facing walls. - Pear trees
Beth
An easy and fairly reliable early-season pear, with a very good melting flavour. - Apple trees
Blenheim Orange
Blenheim Orange is a classic English dual-purpose apple, useful for dessert and culinary purposes. - Plum trees
Blue Tit
Blue Tit is a popular English dual-purpose plum, easy to grow, reliable cropping. - Apple trees
Bountiful
Bountiful is an easy-to-grow cooking apple, it retains its shape when cooked, fairly sweet for a cooker. - Apple trees
Braeburn
Braeburn is one of the best-flavoured supermarket apple varieties. - Apple trees
Bramley 20
Bramley 20 is a naturally small sport of the famous English cooking apple. - Apple trees
Bramley's Seedling
Bramley is the essential English cooking apple, famous for its rich sharp acidity. - Walnut trees
Broadview
Broadview is the best Walnut variety for the UK climate. - Fig trees
Brown Turkey
Brown Turkey is the most popular fig for the UK climate. - Cider apple trees
Brown's Apple
Brown's Apple is a traditional English cider apple variety producing a sharp juice. - Walnut trees
Buccaneer
Another good Walnut variety for the UK climate. - Plum trees
Cambridge Gage
Cambridge Gage is a reliable green gage with an excellent flavour. - Cherry trees
Celeste
Celeste is a dark red/black cherry, one of the best early-season varieties, with a sweet mild flavour. - Quince trees
Champion
Champion is a round / pear-shaped quince, with a yellow-green colour. - Apple trees
Charles Ross
Charles Ross is a very attractive classic English dual-purpose apple. - Apple trees
Chivers Delight
Chivers Delight is an under-rated Cox-style apple from Cambridgeshire. Crisp and sweet. - Apple trees
Christmas Pippin
Christmas Pippin is a new high-yielding Cox-style apple, discovered as a road-side seedling tree. - Apple trees
Claygate Pearmain
Claygate Pearmain is a popular English dessert apple of the Victorian era. - Plum trees
Coe's Golden Drop
Coe's Golden Drop is a large oval gage from the 18th century, noted for its excellent flavour. - Cherry trees
Colney
Colney is a large modern late-season English dessert cherry, dark red/black, with a good flavour. - Pear trees
Concorde
A marriage of Conference and Comice - Concorde is easy to grow, heavy crops, excellent flavour. - Pear trees
Conference
A popular and reliable English pear, Conference is perfectly suited to the English climate. - Apple trees
Cornish Gilliflower
Cornish Gilliflower is a popular English eating apple with an excellent sweet aromatic flavour. - Hazel trees
Cosford (filbert)
Cosford is a popular Filbert, with a flavour allegedly superior to other Hazel nuts. - Apple trees
Court Pendu Plat
Court Pendu Plant is a traditional French apple with a pronounced aromatic pear-drop flavor. - Apple trees
Cox's Orange Pippin
Cox is widely acknowledged as having the best flavour of any apple variety. - Plum trees
Czar
Czar is a traditional culinary plum, one of the easiest plums trees, will even fruit on north-facing walls. - Cider apple trees
Dabinett
Dabinett is a traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice. - Plum trees
Denniston's Superb
Denniston's Superb is a gage-like green plum, raised in New York in the 19th century. - Apple trees
Discovery
Discovery is the definitive early-season English apple variety, makes a good fruit tree for the garden. - Pear trees
Doyenne du Comice
Doyenne du Comice is arguably the best flavoured of all pears. - Apple trees
Dumelow's Seedling
An traditional English cooking apple, with a very rich sharp flavour. One of our favourite cookers. - Cherry trees
Early Rivers
One of the earliest-ripening cherries, ready to pick in early June in southern England. - Plum trees
Early Transparent Gage
One of the easier gages to grow, Early Transparent has attractive semi-translucent fruit. - Apple trees
Egremont Russet
Egremont Russet is the most popular English russet variety, and a good apple tree for the garden. - Apple trees
Ellison's Orange
Ellison's Orange is a well respected Cox-style apple which can achieve very good flavour. - Hazel trees
Ennis
Ennis has become one the top commercial hazel varieties, very high yields, and good flavour. - Plum trees
Excalibur
Excalibur is a red-purple plum, similar to Victoria but with a better flavour for eating fresh. - Damson trees
Farleigh
One of the hardiest damsons, and crops heavily. Farleigh has the distinctive damson flavour. - Walnut trees
Fernette
A modern French Walnut variety with high-quality nuts. - Apple trees
Fiesta
Fiesta (also called Red Pippin) is one of the best Cox-style apples, easy to grow, with a high quality aromatic flavour. - Apple trees
Flamenco (Ballerina)
The best of the ballerina-style apple trees for eating quality. - Walnut trees
Franquette
Franquette is a late-season thin-shelled Walnut. - Apple trees
Gala
Gala is popular supermarket apple - but better when home-grown, with a sweet pleasant flavor. - Peach trees
Garden Lady
Garden Lady is a slow-growing dwarf peach variety, ideal for pot culture. - Apple trees
George Cave
George Cave is one of the earliest-ripening English apples, at its best eaten straight from the tree. - Apple trees
Golden Delicious
The flavor of home-grown Golden Delicious is far better than its supermarket reputation. - Crab apple trees
Golden Hornet
Malus Golden Hornet has pink / white blossom then small yellow crab apples which hang on until late in the year. - Mirabelle & Cherry Plum trees
Golden Sphere
Golden Sphere is a large yellow Cherry Plum with a sweet plum-like flavour. - Apple trees
Granny Smith
Granny Smith is the world-famous green apple from Australia, a good choice for warmer apple-growing regions. - Apple trees
Greensleeves
Greensleeves is a reliable and popular mid-season green/yellow apple, easy to grow and productive. - Apple trees
Grenadier
Grenadier is an early-season cooking apple, and one of the most foolproof apple varieties. - Plum trees
Guinevere
Guinevere is a modern late-season dessert plum, with a good flavour. - Hazel trees
Gunslebert
Gunslebert is a modern hazel variety, an excellent choice for the garden or small orchard. - Mirabelle & Cherry Plum trees
Gypsy
Gypsy is a bright red Cherry Plum with a notably sweet flavour. - Plum trees
Haganta
Haganta is a new large blue plum from Germany, one of the latest-ripening and an excellent flavour. - Hazel trees
Hall's Giant
Hall's Giant is noted for its excellent flavour and is a good pollinator for other hazels. - Cider apple trees
Harry Masters Jersey
Harry Masters Jersey is a traditional English cider apple variety, producing a bittersweet juice. - Cider apple trees
Herefordshire Redstreak
Herefordshire Redstreak is an old English cider apple variety which produces a bittersharp juice. - Apple trees
Herefordshire Russet
Herefordshire Russet is a modern russet apple variety, with an excellent strong Cox-like flavour. - Plum trees
Herman
Herman is one of the best quality early-season plum varieties, blue/purple with yellow flesh. - Apple trees
Howgate Wonder
Howgate Wonder is a large cooking apple which keeps well. Produces an excellent sharp juice. - Pear trees
Humbug
Humbug is an unusual pear variety, the fruits have distinctive green and yellow stripes. - Apple trees
Idared
Idared is a popular late-season apple variety, notable for its excellent keeping qualities. - Almond trees
Ingrid
Ingrid is the best Almond tree for the UK climate, suitable for the warmer and drier areas of the UK. - Pear trees
Invincible
As the name suggests, Invincible is a good pear for difficult conditions. - Apple trees
James Grieve
James Grieve is the classic Scottish cooking apple. It can also be eaten fresh, and is excellent for juice. - Plum trees
Jefferson
Jefferson is a a large yellow gage / plum, easy to grow, crops well, very juicy and great flavour. - Mulberry trees
Jerusalem
A traditional Mulberry tree with large black fruit. - Apple trees
Jonagold
Jonagold is a high quality American apple, with a good balanced sweet/sharp flavor. - Plum trees
Jubilee
Jubilee is a new dessert plum variety, similar to Victoria but larger and more reliable. - Apple trees
Jupiter
Jupiter is a popular Cox-style apple with a slightly stronger flavour. - Apple trees
Katy
Katy is an attractive and versatile early apple variety from Sweden, very easy to grow. - Apple trees
Keswick Codlin
Keswick Codlin is a popular early-season cooking apple, easy to grow, and productive in most climates. - Apple trees
Kidd's Orange Red
Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow. - Mulberry trees
King James 1
A traditional English mulberry from the 17th century, also known as Chelsea. - Cider apple trees
Kingston Black
Kingston Black is one of the premier English cider varieties and produces a bittersharp juice. - Cherry trees
Kordia
Kordia is a popular late-season cherry variety with a good balanced cherry flavour. - Apple trees
Lane's Prince Albert
A classic Victorian cooking apple. Plenty of juicy acidity and stores well. - Hazel trees
Lange Tidling Zeller
Lange Tidling Zeller is one of the new heavy cropping German hazel varieties. - Damson trees
Langley
Often known as Langley Bullace but best regarded as a small-fruited damson. - Cherry trees
Lapins
Lapins is a mid-season red cherry from Canada, easy to grow, with heavy crops of good-flavoured cherries. - Walnut trees
Lara
An early-ripening French Walnut variety. - Apple trees
Laxton's Superb
Laxton's Superb is a deservedly popular English late-season dessert apple from the Victorian era. - Apple trees
Limelight
Limelight is an attractive green mid-season dessert apple, ideal for gardens. - Apple trees
Lord Derby
Lord Derby is a high-quality mid/late-season traditional English cooking apple, cooks to a chunky puree. - Apple trees
Lord Lambourne
Lord Lambourne is a popular versatile garden apple variety, with a good balance of sweet and sharp flavours. - Nectarine trees
Lord Napier
Lord Napier is the best white-fleshed nectarine for the UK climate. - Pear trees
Louise Bonne of Jersey
An attractive red-flushed French pear variety with sweet melting flesh. - Crab apple trees
Malus Dolgo (Pink Glow)
Malus Dolgo, also known as Pink Glow, offers early-season white flowers and dark pink fruits. - Crab apple trees
Malus Evereste
Evereste is a popular crab-apple with masses of white blossom, then red-yellow fruits. - Crab apple trees
Malus Floribunda
Malus floribunda is also known as the Japanese Crab. Pink / white blossom then red / yellow fruits. - Crab apple trees
Malus Golden Gem
Golden Gem has bright white blossom followed by yellow crab apples. - Crab apple trees
Malus John Downie
John Downie is a good crab apples for making crab apple jelly. White blossom and orange-red fruits. - Crab apple trees
Malus Liset
Malus Liset is a compact ornamental crab apple, with dusky red flowers and small scarlet fruits. - Crab apple trees
Malus Profusion
Malus Profusion is a notably compact crab apple variety, with dense clusters of deep pink blossom. - Crab apple trees
Malus Red Sentinel
Malus Red Sentinel has classic white apple blossom and a profusion of tiny scarlet fruits. - Crab apple trees
Malus Royalty
Malus Royalty is an ornamental crab apple with green-bronze leaves and dark red blossom. - Crab apple trees
Malus Sargentii
Malus Sargentii is an early-flowering ornamental crab apple with elegant white blossom. - Crab apple trees
Malus Sun Rival
Malus Sun Rival is a crab apple with white flowers, red fruits, notable for its weeping growth habit. - Crab apple trees
Malus Toringo
Malus Toringo is an ornamental crab apple, with white flowers and small yellow fruits. - Plum trees
Marjorie's Seedling
Marjorie's Seedling is an easy to grow, late-season, heavy cropping purple/black plum. - Quince trees
Meech's Prolific
Meech's Prolific is a popular quince variety from the USA, fragrant fruit and attractive blossom. - Cherry trees
Merchant
An early-season black/red cherry with a good flavour. - Apple trees
Meridian
Meridian is an under-rated modern English apple, heavy crops, easy to grow, and excellent flavour. - Damson trees
Merryweather
Merryweather is a very popular damson, with unusually large fruit, one of the hardiest of fruit trees. - Cherry trees
Merton Glory
A well-known mid-season English white cherry. - Plum trees
Methley
Methley is a Japanese plum (Prunus salicina), as opposed to the more usual European plums (Prunus domestica). - Cider apple trees
Michelin
Michelin is a traditional French cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice. - Mirabelle & Cherry Plum trees
Mirabelle de Nancy
Mirabelle de Nancy is an old traditional Mirabelle, originating from north-east France. - Pear trees
Moonglow
A high quality early season dessert and culinary pear, very resistant to fireblight. - Cherry trees
Morello
Morello is a traditional late-season acid or sour-cherry, and can be grown in north-facing situations. - Cider apple trees
Morgan Sweet
Morgan Sweet is a traditional English cider variety producing a full sweet juice. - Apple trees
Mutsu (Crispin)
Mutsu or Crispin is a high quality apple from Japan, with a good flavor, and also sharp enough for cooking. - Nectarine trees
Nectarella
Nectarella is a genetic dwarf nectarine, ideal for growing in a pot. - Apple trees
Newton Wonder
A traditional English cooking apple, a good alternative to Bramley. - Apple trees
Norfolk Royal Russet
Norfolk Royal Russet is a glorious golden-russet apple which tastes as good as it looks. - Medlar trees
Nottingham
A popular Medlar, used mainly for cooking. - Plum trees
Old Greengage
The definitive gage - Old Green Gage is arguably the best-flavoured of any plum variety. - Pear trees
Onward
Onward is high quality dessert pear, related to Doyenne du Comice but easier to grow. - Plum trees
Opal
Opal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow. - Apple trees
Orleans Reinette
Orleans Reinette is traditional French apple variety, and remains popular for its old-fashioned flavour. - Plum trees
Oullins Golden Gage
The flavour of a true gage yet also easy to grow, Oullins Golden Gage is a good first gage tree. - Cherry trees
Penny
Penny is a high quality very late-season cherry - it ripens in mid-August. - Peach trees
Peregrine
Peregrine is the best flavoured white-flesh peach for the UK climate. - Apple trees
Pixie
Pixie produces lots of small Cox-style apples, easy to grow and keep well. - Cider apple trees
Porter's Perfection
Porter's Perfection is a 19th century English cider variety producing a bittersharp juice. - Quince trees
Portugal
Portugal is perhaps the best-flavoured of all Quinces, but prefers a warm dry climate. - Apple trees
Rajka
Rajka is a modern disease-resistant apple variety from the Czech Republic with a good sweet/sharp flavour. - Apple trees
Red Devil
Red Devil is a a good apple variety for the UK garden, and produces a sweet red-tinted juice. - Apple trees
Red Falstaff
Red Falstaff is one of the best garden apple trees, heavy crops, easy to grow, and very juicy. - Apple trees
Red Windsor
Red Windsor is one of the easiest to grow of all dessert apple trees, and with a pleasant apple flavour. - Cherry trees
Regina
Regina is a new dark-red late-season sweet cherry, with a good flavour and resistance to splitting. - Plum trees
Reine Claude de Bavay
The most widely-grown green gage, Reine Claude de Bavay has the distinctive gage-like flavour. - Apple trees
Ribston Pippin
A handsome English apple from the 18th century. - Plum trees
Rivers' Early Prolific
Early Prolific is a very heavy-cropping early-season plum, raised by the famous Rivers nursery. - Peach trees
Rochester
An excellent yellow-flesh peach for the UK climate. - Apple trees
Rosette
A new early-season eating apple with an unusual pink-flesh. - Medlar trees
Royal
A compact-growing Medlar, useful for smaller gardens. - Apple trees
Rubinette
Rubinette has exceptional flavour, perhaps the best balance of sweetness and sharpness of any apple variety. - Mirabelle & Cherry Plum trees
Ruby
Ruby is a very large modern Cherry Plum, with dark red flesh. - Apple trees
Saint Edmund's Russet
Not as well known as other russets, St. Edmund's Russet is nevertheless one of the best. - Apple trees
Santana
Santana is a good quality modern dessert apple, notable for low levels of allergenic compounds. - Peach trees
Saturn
Saturn is a distinctive flattened peach with a very good white-peach flavour. - Apple trees
Scotch Bridget
A popular Scottish cooking apple, well-suited to damp wet conditions. - Apple trees
Scotch Dumpling
Scotch Dumpling is a large Scottish cooking apple. Cooks to a frothy puree with a good flavour. - Apple trees
Scrumptious
Scumptious is a new award-winning early-season English dessert apple. - Plum trees
Seneca
Seneca is a late-season large American plum with a notably sweet flavor. - Quince trees
Serbian Gold
Serbian Gold is probably the best quince variety for the UK climate. - Damson trees
Shropshire Prune
The definitive English damson, Shropshire Prune has the rich astringent flavour typical of damsons. - Apple trees
Spartan
Spartan produces lots of crimson maroon apples, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, delicate "vinous" flavor. - Cherry trees
Stella
If you only intend to grow one cherry tree Stella is a good choice. It ripens mid-season, is self-fertile and easy to grow. - Cider apple trees
Stoke Red
A traditional English cider apple producing a bittersharp juice. - Apple trees
Sturmer Pippin
A sharp-tasting late-season Victorian apple which keeps very well. - Cherry trees
Summer Sun
Summer Sun is productive mid-season cherry, and should ripen even if the summer weather is less than perfect. - Cherry trees
Sunburst
Sunburst is a large red mid-season cherry with a good mild flavour, and notably easy to pick. - Apple trees
Sunrise
Sunrise is a reliable summer apple, crisp, juicy, and better flavour than many early apples. - Apple trees
Sunset
Sunset is a popular garden alternative to Cox, easier to grow, with a sweet aromatic flavour. - Cherry trees
Sweetheart
Sweetheart is perhaps one of the best-flavoured late-season cherries for the UK climate. - Apple trees
Tickled Pink
Tickled Pink is a unique red-fleshed apple, with attractive crimson blossom, also known as Baya® Marisa. - Cider apple trees
Tom Putt
An old traditional English cider variety with a sharp juice, which can also be used for cooking. - Apricot trees
Tomcot
Tomcot is a modern apricot variety with very large fruit, suitable for southern areas of the UK. - Cider apple trees
Tremlett's Bitter
Tremlett's Bitter is a traditional English cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice. - Apple trees
Tydeman's Late Orange
An excellent late-season Cox-style aromatic apple. - Plum trees
Valor
Valor is a large dual-purpose purple plum from Canada, ripening late in the season. - Cherry trees
Van
Van is a deservedly popular bright red mid-season cherry with firm flesh and an excellent cherry flavour. - Plum trees
Victoria
Victoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, superb for cooking. - Plum trees
Warwickshire Drooper
Warwickshire Drooper is a good quality dual-purpose yellow plum, with heavy crops. - Mulberry trees
Wellington
A large-fruited Mulberry tree. - Pear trees
Williams
Williams is a classic English pear, also known as Bartlett, with good flavour and quite easy to grow. - Apple trees
Winter Gem
Winter Gem is a late-season apple variety with a very good aromatic flavour. - Apple trees
Worcester Pearmain
Worcester Pearmain is a well-known early-season English apple, noted for its strawberry-like flavours. - Cider apple trees
Yarlington Mill
Yarlington Mill is a traditional English cider apple variety producing a bittersweet juice. - Plum trees
Yellow Pershore
Also known as Yellow Egg, Yellow Pershore is a self-fertile heavy cropping culinary plum.