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Bramley's Seedling

Bramley's Seedling apples
Bramley's Seedling has received the RHS Award of Garden MeritBramley's Seedling is listed in the RHS Plants for Pollinators

Bramley's Seedling - simply the best of British! Superb tree that will give you more apples than you can cope with.  Takes a bit longer to start fruiting, but well worth the wait.

Bramley apples cook down to a 'chunky' consistency, making it the perfect choice for a good old fashioned apple crumble, However Bramley can also be used for jucing too, and is a great choice in a cider blend due to its acidic content.

Don't worry about having to cook all the apples at once - Bramleys store really well.

Bramley's Seedling apple trees for sale

  • RF1Spindlebush bare-root tree on M27 rootstock£44.00
    Mature height: < 1.5m after 10 years
    For growing a very-dwarf spindlebush apple tree, will need a permanent vertical stake.
    Available next season
  • RF21-year bare-root tree on M9 rootstock£38.25
    Mature height: 1.5m-2.5m after 10 years
    Suitable for a dwarf apple tree, a small apple spindlebush, a small apple fan or espalier, a small apple cordon or U-cordon. Will require permanent support.
    Available next season
  • RF3Spindlebush bare-root tree on M9 rootstock£44.00
    Mature height: 1.5m-2.5m after 10 years
    For growing a dwarf spindlebush apple tree, will need a permanent vertical stake.
    Available next season
  • RF41-year bare-root tree on M26 rootstock£34.95
    Mature height: 2m-3.5m after 10 years
    Suitable for a semi-dwarf apple tree, a medium apple spindlebush, a medium apple fan or espalier, a large apple cordon or U-cordon.
    Available next season
  • RF52-year bare-root tree on M26 rootstock£43.00
    Mature height: 2m-3.5m after 10 years
    Suitable for a medium bush-trained semi-dwarf apple tree.
    Available next season
  • RF6Spindlebush bare-root tree on M116 rootstock£44.00
    Mature height: 2m-3.5m after 10 years
    Suitable for growing on as a spindlebush apple tree with a permanent stake.
    Available next season
  • RF71-year bare-root tree on MM106 rootstock£34.95
    Mature height: 3m-5m after 10 years
    Can be trained on as a large free-standing apple tree, a half-standard apple tree, a large apple fan or espalier, or a pleached apple tree.
    Available next season
  • RF82-year bare-root tree on MM106 rootstock£43.00
    Mature height: 3m-5m after 10 years
    Suitable for a large bush-trained free-standing apple tree.
    Available next season
  • RF91-year bare-root tree on M25 rootstock(Original)£35.75
    Mature height: 5m-7m after 10 years
    Can be trained on to produce a big 'standard' free-standing apple tree in a traditional apple orchard.
    Available next season

Growing and Training

Bramley's Seedling is a vigorous triploid variety and needs a pollinator in order to fruit.  As it is a poor pollinator of others, it would be best to select a self-fertile variety to act as a pollinator for it. Bramley's Seedling is quite easy to grow, and due to its vigour and natural disease resistance it is a good choice for most locations.

We also offer an alternative to the Bramley's Seedling known as Bramley 20 which is about 20% less vigourous which is better suited for smaller gardens. The apples are the same size.



Recommended pollinators for Bramley's Seedling apple trees

Bramley's Seedling is not self-fertile and is also a poor pollinator of other varieties. Ideally you need two other different but compatible varieties planted nearby in order to produce fruit, or one compatible self-fertile variety. The following varieties are good pollinators for Bramley's Seedling. If you are not sure about pollination requirements don't hesitate to ask us.

  • Pollinator Scrumptious
    Scrumptious
    Scrumptious is a modern award-winning early-season English dessert apple.
  • Pollinator Red Falstaff
    Red Falstaff
    Red Falstaff is one of the best garden apple trees, heavy crops, easy to grow, and very juicy.
  • Pollinator Red Devil
    Red Devil
    Red Devil is a good apple variety for the UK garden, and produces a sweet red-tinted juice.
  • Pollinator Spartan
    Spartan
    Spartan produces lots of crimson maroon apples, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, delicate "vinous" flavour.
  • Pollinator James Grieve
    James Grieve
    James Grieve is the classic Scottish dual-purpose apple. It can be eaten fresh, and is also excellent for juicing and cooking.
  • Pollinator Fiesta
    Fiesta
    Fiesta (or Red Pippin) is one of the best Cox-style apples, easy to grow, with a good aromatic flavour.
  • Pollinator Katy
    Katy
    Katy is an attractive and versatile early apple variety from Sweden, very easy to grow.
  • Pollinator Greensleeves
    Greensleeves
    Greensleeves is a reliable and popular mid-season green/yellow apple, easy to grow and productive.

Bramley's Seedling characteristics

  • Gardening skillAverage
  • Fruit persistenceNormal ripening
  • Self-fertile?Not self-fertile
  • Pollinating othersPoor
  • Pick seasonLate
  • Picking monthSeptember
  • Picking periodearly October
  • Keeping3 months or more
  • Food usesCulinaryJuiceHard ciderTraditional cooker
  • Country of originUnited Kingdom
  • Period of origin1800 - 1849
  • Fruit colourGreenGreen - lightGreen / Red

You might also like these varieties

  • See also Arthur Turner
    Arthur Turner
    A mid-season cooking apple, producing a light yellow puree. Very attractive blossom.
  • See also Howgate Wonder
    Howgate Wonder
    Howgate Wonder is a large cooking apple which keeps well. Produces an excellent sharp juice.
  • See also Lord Derby
    Lord Derby
    Lord Derby is a high-quality mid/late-season traditional English cooking apple, cooks to a chunky puree.
  • See also Reverend W. Wilks
    Reverend W. Wilks
    A widely-grown and well-regarded English cooking apple.

More about apple trees

We've all grown up with Bramley cookng apples so we take it for granted that cooking apples are different to eating apples, but, surprisingly, the UK is one of the few countries that makes such a distinction between apples for cooking and apples for eating fresh.

The main qualtities of a good "cooker" are size - the bigger the better - and acidity. Counter-intuitively, it is the acid which gives cooking apples their flavour. In contrast the flavour of sweet dessert apples collapses with cooking.

Cooking apples are usually easier to grow than eating apples, and will tolerate partial shade.


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