A favorite apple of Stephen Hayes in the UK
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The Orleans Reinette is a highly regarded, historic apple variety believed to have originated in France around 1776.
It's a medium to large apple with a golden-yellow base color. This is often flushed with orange or dull red and extensively covered with a fine, sometimes cinnamon-colored, russeting.
The flesh is creamy white, firm, fine-textured, and juicy, Its taste is famously complex, often described as a perfect balance of sweetness and acidity. You'll frequently find notes of nuts (particularly walnut), orange, tangerine, honey, and even hints of vanilla or rum-cola. It offers a rich, full-bodied sweet-tart experience.
Orleans Reinette is a versatile apple, excellent for both fresh eating and cooking. When cooked, its slices tend to keep their shape, making it ideal for baked apples, pies, and tarts. It's also considered a superb apple for cider making.
While it's a Mid/late-season apple (harvested mid-October), it doesn't store as long as some other late varieties, typically keeping well for 1-3 months in cold storage.
It's a moderately vigorous, upright-spreading tree that can be a spur-bearer. It's often noted as being relatively disease-resistant, though some sources mention susceptibility to fire blight. It is a triploid variety, meaning it requires two different diploid pollinator partners to produce a good crop. It benefits from a warm location to fully develop its flavors.
The "Reinette de Reinette" apple, often known in English as "King of the Pippins" or "Queen of the Reinettes" (from its French name "Reine des Reinettes"), is a very old and highly esteemed apple cultivar.
Thought to have originated in France in the 18th century, it quickly became a popular variety across Europe. It was widely cultivated, especially during the Victorian era.
It's a medium-sized apple with a distinctive orange-red flush and often a tawny russeting over a golden-yellow skin, especially on the sun-exposed side. Its shape can be broad and slightly flattened.
The flesh is firm, juicy, and has a rich, complex flavor. It's often described as having notes of citrus (orange, lemon, bergamot), tropical fruits (mango, melon), and even a hint of vanilla. It offers a balanced sweet-tart taste that develops further in storage.
While primarily considered a delicious dessert apple, its firm flesh means it holds its shape well when cooked, making it excellent for baking, especially in French pastries like Tarte Tatin. It also produces good quality juice and can be used in cider blends.
The trees are generally reliable croppers, growing in a compact, neat fashion with good disease resistance. It's partially self-fertile.
The Blush Rosette apple is a visually striking early-season variety known for its vibrant red skin and unique mottled pink and red flesh, which often forms a rosette pattern when sliced. It offers a sweet-tart, berry-like flavor and is good for eating fresh or juicing, producing a beautiful pink juice.
The Blue Pearmain Apple is an heirloom American variety renowned for its distinctive color and exceptional flavour.
Blue Pearmain apples have crisp, tender flesh that offers a superb balance of sweet and tangy notes, spicy and aromatic.
Rubinola is a modern apple and was developed in the Czech Republic in 1997.It is an excellent disease resistant variety so is a good choice for Organic growers.
Rubinola has a good balance of sweetness and tart and is a crisp but not firm apple.
Ripening in Ireland around Late September.
Found in Limerick
Huge Green/Yellow eating apples of good flavour
Early apple
mm106 rootstock will grow to roughly 12-14ft but can be kept smaller with pruning.
1 year old whips for sale which will branch out in spring.
Please note we only post when trees are dormant.
This apple was found in Cork in the 1890.
Beautiful looking russet apple.
Late season
One of my favorite apples so far.
This apple has no tart and when fully ripe tastes of banana.
Good disease resistance.
106mm rootstock will grow to roughly 10-12ft but can be kept smaller with pruning.
1 year old whips for sale which will branch out in spring.
Please note we only post when trees are dormant.
Found in Gloucester in the 18th century.
Although not the prettiest apples some say one of the best tasting with notes of pear drops.
Used for fresh eating, salads, juices and cider.
Late season.
106mm rootstock will grow to roughly 12-14ft but can be kept smaller with pruning.
1 year old whips for sale which will branch out in spring.
Please note we only post when trees are dormant.
Baya Marisa is an early red skin/red flesh apple.
The flowers are striking and it is a tree worth growing as an ornamental.
The apples are medium sized with slight tart and no sweetness.They make a beautiful red juice and would be useful in cooking.
mm106 rootstock will grow to roughly 12-14ft but can be kept smaller with pruning.
1 year old whips for sale which will branch out in spring.
Please note we only post when trees are dormant.
Beautifull early sweet eating apple with red flushes under the skin.
A favourite among many.
Best eaten straight from the tree as does not keep.
Heavy cropper
mm106 rootstock will grow to roughly 12-14ft but can be kept smaller with pruning.
1 year old whips for sale which will branch out in spring.
Please note we only post when trees are dormant.
Aka early crofton found in Sligo.
Early eating apple with good flavour.
Small to medium sized apple.
mm106 rootstock will grow to roughly 12-14ft but can be kept smaller with pruning.
1 year old whips for sale which will branch out in spring.
Please note we only post when trees are dormant.
Katy is an attractive medium sized red apple.
It's an early season juicy eating apple but due to some acid in taste can also be used in cooking.
When juiced the apples produce a lovely red/orange colour.
The trees are hassle free and grow well in Ireland.
These are 1yr old single stem whips.They will branch out next Spring.
mm106 rootstock will grow to roughly 12-14ft but can be kept smaller with pruning.
1 year old whips for sale which will branch out in spring.
Please note we only post when trees are dormant.
Found in Kilkenny
lovely sweet eating apple
harvesting mid September
mm106 rootstock will grow to roughly 12-14ft but can be kept smaller with pruning.
1 year old whips for sale which will branch out in spring.
Please note we only post when trees are dormant.
American apple from Ohio
Great flavour juicy sweet apple.#
Good storage apple
Late apple
mm106 rootstock will grow to roughly 12-14ft but can be kept smaller with pruning.
1 year old whips for sale which will branch out in spring.
Please note we only post when trees are dormant.
Discovered in the midlands in the 18th century
Russeted eating apple best known for its pineapple flavour.
Heavy cropper but has a tendency to biennial bearing.
May need to be thinned as can be prone to overbearing.
Disease resistant
Mid to Late season
mm106 rootstock will grow to roughly 12-14ft but can be kept smaller with pruning.
1 year old whips for sale which will branch out in spring.
Please note we only post when trees are dormant.