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Bramley's Seedling is the definitive English "cooker" - an apple variety used exclusively for culinary purposes. Its defining characteristic is the acidic flesh which cooks down to a stiff apple puree.
The copious juice makes Bramley's Seedling valuable for juicing and the juice is also used in cider production.
Product formats | Bare-root or Container-grown | Delivery | Rootstocks
All prices include delivery. We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.
*Delivery period: Container-grown trees will be delivered from September 2010. Bare-root trees will be delivered from mid-November 2010. You can order now and your items will be reserved for you, but you will not be asked to pay until nearer the time of delivery.
Bramley's Seedling is in flowering group 3. It is a triploid variety and needs TWO different pollination partners nearby. The following varieties will pollinate Bramley's Seedling:
Important: advice about pollination
Bramley's Seedling is a vigorous tree, and if grown on anything other than a dwarfing rootstock will need plenty of space. Like many vigorous varieties it is a triploid, with 3 sets of genes rather than 2. The vigour can also be seen in the strong dark-coloured leaves. Bramley's Seedling is quite easy to grow, its great vigour means it usually throws off problems fairly easily.
As a triploid variety, Bramley's Seedling needs 2 separate compatible pollination partners. In most suburban or small orchard environments you can usually assume there will be suitable varieties nearby. However, if you want to be certain then choose 2 different additional varieties to plant alongside. The following are specifically compatible: Ashmead's Kernel, Bountiful, Cox's Orange Pippin, Fiesta, Gala, Grenadier, Herefordshire Russet, Katy, Kidd's Orange Red, Limelight, Pinova, Red Falstaff, Rubinette Rosso, Scrumptious, Spartan, Sunset, or Winter Gem. In practice most later-flowering apple or crab-apple varieties are likely to be suitable. Note that the partner trees do not have to be the same size as the Bramley's Seedling - a small cordon or patio tree will be fine.
The pink-flushed white blossom is prolific and attractive. The fruit ripens late in the season, and stores very well.
We also offer an alternative selection known as Bramley 20 which is about 20% less vigourous than Bramley's Seedling, and therefore produces a smaller tree which is better suited for smaller gardens. The apples are the same size.
2009 is the 200th anniversary of Bramley's Seedling. The first tree was grown from a pip in a garden in Nottinghamshire, England, in 1809 - and amazingly this tree still survives. Bramley's Seedling is indeed unusually long-lived for an apple variety.
Bramley's Seedling - FruitClick to view larger image
Bramley's Seedling - BlossomClick to view larger image
This is an illustration of what our products look like as delivered. Please remember that trees are natural products, so this information is for general guidance only. The trees at this stage are 1-2 years old, and will get larger as they grow older, the likely mature heights are indicated in the ordering section above. The trees you receive may differ in some respects from those shown here, for some of the following reasons:
For comparison purposes the model in our photos is 5ft 6" / 1m 68cm tall. Click any of the images to view a larger one.
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