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Coul Blush

Malus domestica
Coul Blush apples
Coul Blush is listed in the RHS Plants for Pollinators

Coul Blush is an early-season dual-purpose apple, with a yellow skin, flushed orange.

The cream-coloured flesh is fairly soft, with a sweeter flavour than you might expect for a summer apple.

For cooking, pick slightly earlier. It cooks to a fluffy puree.

The apples can be kept in the fridge for 4-6 weeks.

Coul Blush 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

Coul Blush is a vigorous and disease resistant tree, but a poor pollinator of other varieties.


History

Coul Blush was raised in the 1820s by Sir George Mackenzie at Coul House in Ross-shire.


Coul Blush characteristics

  • Gardening skillAverage
  • Fruit persistenceNormal ripening
  • Self-fertile?Not self-fertile
  • Pollinating othersPoor
  • Pick seasonEarly
  • Picking monthAugust
  • Picking periodmid-August
  • Keeping1-2 months
  • Food usesEating freshCulinaryDual purpose
  • Country of originUnited Kingdom
  • Period of origin1800 - 1849
  • Fruit colourOrange flushYellow / Orange

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    Scotch Dumpling is a large Scottish cooking apple. Cooks to a frothy puree with a good flavour.

More about apple trees

Apples are very versatile, and all varieties can be eaten or used in the kitchen. However varieties specifically grown as eating apples tend to have the best flavours for eating raw.

The main thing to decide when choosing an eating apple is when you intend to eat the apples. Early season apples are typically ready in August, and generally don't keep very long. Mid-season apples are ripe in early September, while late-season apples start to become ripe in late September and October. Many of the late-season varieties can also be stored in a fridge or cold shed for several months into the winter.

Some apple varieties are self-fertile, but most are not. However in most areas of the UK you do not need to worry whether your apple trees are self-fertile or not, as there will be other apple trees in nearby gardens to help with pollination.


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