Bear rooted Apple Trees for Sale
We propagate rare and unusual apple varieties that go on sale from July on. All trees are sold at the Braidwood farmers' market. You can order trees via phone, message or email to be picked up at the market. The next market is Saturday July 20th at the National Theatre Braidwood.
Malus domestica - Bedan
Raised from a seedling by renown French nurseryman
Pierre-Michel Legrand
in the early 1870s. It is primarily abitter-sweet cider apple popularly used by Normandy cider makers in blends. It is also a good eating apple with strong flavours. The flesh is a sweet with low acid.
Harvested when the skin has turned from yellow-green to golden-orange. High sugar levelsmake it ideal for calvados.
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Malus domestica - Belle Cacheuse.jpg)
A Norman apple originating from the cider making region of Pays de Caux. As its name suggests this is a very beautiful apple. A versatile apple, its sweet flesh is good for eating, cooking, juicing or blending into a cider. Makes fabulous Pies. |
Malus Domestica - Boy's Delight
Our original tree was purchased from the Grove collection in Tasnmainia. Very little information is available on this variety. It is of Canadian origin. Our tree produces plentiful crops of small sweet and juicy apples, ideal for the lunch box. Hense the name. |
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Malus Domestica - Breakwell's Seedling
 Propagated by George Breakwell of Perthyre Farm at Rockfield, Monmouthshire in the 1890s. It is believed to be a seedling of the famous Wye Valley Foxwhelp. It is a early harvest bitter-sweet cider variety that makes a light, mild cider and is useful in a blend. They give off an intense aroma as they ripen in the orchard. |
Malus Domestica - Brown Snout
Raised in Hereford UK by Mr Dent at Yarkhill in Herefordshire, in the mid 1800s. At one time a very popular cider variety due to its readiness to ferment. Quick to oxidize it produces cider of rich colour. The trees are self pollinating and prolific croppers. The name is due to the patch of russet on the eye.
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Malus domestica - Claygate Pearmain
John Braddick found a chance seedling near his home in Claygate Surry. In 1822 he sent the fruit a meeting of the Horticultural Society of London, who declared it to be 'unquestionably a first rate desert apple'. I do agree. Its strong, rich and nutty flavour is superior to any variety available commercially today. |
Malus domestica - Foxwhelp.JPG)
Discovered as a remnant tree in an redundant 19th century cider factory at Majors Creek. As well as being delicious to eat the Foxwhelp is one of the most important varieties in cider making history. First mentioned in 1664 and believed to be from the Wye Valley it quickly be came renown to produce superior cider. A vintage bitter sharp cider apple that produces cider with a characteristic musky flavour. A hog's head of foxwhelp would fetched a premium price in the 17th and 18th century. A beautiful tree with small red apples. |
Malus domestica - Golden Harvey 
A very old apple from Herefordshire dating back to the early 1600. A high quality eating apple with intense aromatic flavour. Also good for making strong cider due to the abundance of sugar. Sometimes called the Brandy apple as Golden Harvey cider is traditionally used as a base to distil apple brandy.
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Malus domestica - Kandi Sinap.JPG)
An heirloom apple dating back to the 1800s. There is debate as to whether it is a Turkish original or Russian, nonetheless it was discovered on the Sinop Peninsula along the Black Sea. Its long cylindrical 'Candle shaped' form and red blushed skin defies what we’re accustomed to seeing in an apple. But don’t let its unique shape distract you from its sweet and sharp flavour. Covering its creamy porcelain flesh is a smooth, chewy, waxy skin. It’s great in dessert baking and eating fresh, not to mention it keeps well.
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Malus domestica - Wilson's Apple
We have a number of trees for sale that have been propagated from a very old tree that was planted near to the original Braidwood Farm's gardeners cottage. Braidwood Farm being the home of Dr Thomas 'Braidwood' Wilson, part of which was annexed for the site of present day Braidwood. The tree was probably planted in the 1840s by Wilson or his gardener Farquar Aberdeen. Extensive research has led us to believe that Wilson introduced this variety from Scotland. Wilson himself came from West Lothian in Scotland as did his close friend and mentor Sir Henry Duncan. Duncan's family had large orchards in the area. One of the most notable orchards belonged to a distant relative Patrick Matthew of Gourdie Hill. We checked records of varieties grown in Mathews orchard and found a close resemblance to the Wilson apple in the Scarlet Golden Pippin, a sport from the much heralded Golden Pippin. Below is a description of the Scarlet Golden Pippin from the 'Herefordshire Pomona', a comprehensive 19th century fruit catalogue.This very beautiful variety originated as a bud sport on the old Golden Pippin, about fifty years since (c. 1820), at Gourdie Hill, in Perthshire. The variety is named, but not described, in the Catalogue of the London Horticultural Society for 1831. It is also mentioned in the edition of 1842, though without any description.
Description.—Fruit: small, roundish oblong in shape, very regular and free from angles, but rather flattened at the eye and base. Skin: very rich in colour, of a golden yellow on the shaded side, but covered almost entirely with a scarlet blush, and becoming of a deep red opposite the sun ; the whole surface being strewed with small russety dots. Eye : large and open with broad calyx segments, placed in a shallow basin, generally even but sometimes grooved. Stalk : half to three- quarters of an inch long, inserted in a narrow but rather deep cavity. Flesh : yellow, crisp, and firm, with a sweet and pleasant flavour, very similar to the Golden Pippin itself, from which indeed, except for its brilliant colour, it differs but little.
The great beauty of this variety renders it one of the most attractive fruits of the table, quite apart from its own merits as a dessert Apple. It is in season from November to March [Ripens April/May in Braidwood].
The tree makes an excellent espalier or dwarf standard. It bears abundantly, and forms a beautiful object in the garden.
It is one of our favorite eating apples, small with intense flavour. It also makes a great cider.
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Malus domestica - Rymer.jpg)
We propagated this variety from a remnant orchard at Majors Creek. A famous old Yorkshire variety, considered lost in the UK 2007, when it was reintroduced from a collection in Tasmania. Raised in 1750 by Mr Rymer of Thirsk Yorkshire, it is a late season, large round cooking apple, leaning towards dessert quality in warmer years. The Flesh is yellowish, tender, and pleasantly sub-acid. From April to June.
Pollunation group 3
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10% discount for 5 or more. 15% discount for 10 or more.
All trees are graded by size and rarity. Prices will come available as they are graded.
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