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Galloway Pippin

Malus domestica
Galloway Pippin apples
Galloway Pippin is listed in the RHS Plants for Pollinators

Galloway Pippin is a popular dual-purpose apple from south-west Scotland, ripening mid/late season. The Victorian pomologist Robert Hogg rated it as a "first-rate kitchen apple".

Galloway Pippin is best treated as a cooking apple, and slices keep their shape when cooked. The apples also store fairly well, but lose their sharpness - and then become more suitable as brisk eaters.

Galloway Pippin is noted for its attractive blossom.

Galloway Pippin apple trees for sale

  • 1-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

Growing and Training

Galloway Pippin is a hardy tree, particularly suitable for areas with mild damp climates (in which fungal infections often thrive).


Recommended pollinators for Galloway Pippin apple trees

Galloway Pippin 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 Galloway Pippin. 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 Spartan
    Spartan
    Spartan produces lots of crimson maroon apples, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, delicate "vinous" flavour.
  • Pollinator Red Falstaff
    Red Falstaff
    Red Falstaff is one of the best garden apple trees, heavy crops, easy to grow, and very juicy.
  • Pollinator Sunset
    Sunset
    Sunset is a popular garden alternative to Cox, easier to grow, with a sweet aromatic 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 Red Devil
    Red Devil
    Red Devil is a good apple variety for the UK garden, and produces a sweet red-tinted juice.
  • Pollinator Howgate Wonder
    Howgate Wonder
    Howgate Wonder is a large cooking apple which keeps well. Produces an excellent sharp juice.

History

Galloway Pippin is an old Scottish variety from Wigtown in Galloway. It was first recognised by the RHS in 1871, when it was awarded a 1st class certificate, but is probably much older.


Galloway Pippin characteristics

  • Gardening skillBeginner
  • Fruit persistenceNormal ripening
  • Self-fertile?Not self-fertile
  • Pollinating othersPoor
  • Pick seasonLate
  • Picking monthSeptember
  • Picking periodlate September
  • Keeping1-2 months
  • Food usesEating freshCulinaryTraditional cookerDual purpose
  • Country of originUnited Kingdom
  • Period of origin1800 - 1849
  • Fruit colourGreen - light

You might also like these varieties

  • See also Coul Blush
    Coul Blush
    Coul Blush is an early-season dual-purpose apple from Scotland.
  • See also Scotch Bridget
    Scotch Bridget
    A popular Scottish cooking apple, well-suited to damp wet conditions.
  • See also Scotch Dumpling
    Scotch Dumpling
    Scotch Dumpling is a large Scottish cooking apple. Cooks to a frothy puree with a good flavour.

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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