Mid-Harvest: March-April

Bonza was a chance seedling found in Batlow and introduced in the 1950s. The Bonza variety has a green/cream background colour under a red blush. The variety is characterised by a very white firm flesh with a sweet flavour, and is particularly good for...

Malus 'Campbelltown Russet' is a very attractive large apple covered with russet over a pale green base with red blushes. Has a gold-leafed appearance in the sunshine. Distinctive flavour and yellow/green coloured flesh. Fruits have short stalks and are...

Although close to 200 years old Cox’s Orange Pippin remains one of the world’s best known apples. Its fame rests on its delightful flavour.Raised in about 1825 by Richard Cox at Colnbrook Lawn, Slough, Buckinghamshire and introduced by...

An American apple discovered in about 1880 growing as a shoot from a rootstock by J. Hiatt, near Peru, Iowa. It was introduced by Stark Brothers in 1895. Firm, very sweet, juicy flesh with a highly aromatic flavour. Grows well in Australian conditions...

Bred from Cox’s Orange Pippin and Golden Delicious this New Zealand cultivar demonstrates the great variety apples have to offer. This one has a distinct spicy, anise flavour. Image courtesy of Orange Pippin, an excellent source of apple variety...

The Fuji apple is an apple cultivar developed by growers at the Tohoku Research Station in Morioka, Japan in the late 1930s and brought to market in 1962.Fuji apples are typically large or very large and round, on average the size of a baseball. They...

A chance seedling found in 1890 by A.H. Mullins, Clay County, West Virginia, USA. Possibly from a seed of Grimes Golden open-pollinated. It was introduced in 1914 by Stark Brothers. Best ripened on the tree for a crisp, juicy sweet apple with an aromatic...

Apple Hazelwood is a lovely apple we have propagated from our Collections Orchard on the farm because we think it is a great eating apple. It is juicy with acid notes and really nice to eat when it's ripe in mid March to early April. It is listed in...

A Jonathan x Wagener cross from the Idaho Agricultural Experimental Station, Moscow, Idaho, rasied by Leif Verner. Ida(ho) Red was introduced in 1942 and is still grown commercially in North America, France, Germany, and to a small extent in England. A...

Jonagold is grown through Europe and Japan. A cross between Jonathan and Golden Delicious, fruit is crisp and juicy with an aromatic honey flavour. Considered one of the best of all modern apples. Image (accessed 7/4/16) Pollination Group: PG3 Uses:...

Thought to be a seedling of Esopus Spitzenberg, originated on the farm of Philip Rick, Woodstock, Ulster County, New York and first described by Judge J. Buel in 1826 and named by him after Jonathan Hasbrouck. Fruits are soft, fine-textured with fairly...

Lovejoy's Lunch is a seedling that was growing in an old blacksmiths workshop at Long Gully in Bendigo where the Lovejoy family lived last century. They loved the apples so much that they took a cutting of it when they moved and successfully established...

Introduced in 1899 by McNary & Gaines, Xenia, Ohio, USA. Fruits have firm, fairly crisp flesh with a sweet flavour. Very attractive in appearance and keeps well on the tree. Pollination Group: PG5 Uses: Eating Harvest: March - April ©...

Thought to be a Canadian variety and may have been raised from seed brought from France by early settlers. It was planted in the USA in about 1730. Fruits have rather soft, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a very sweet and vinous flavour – similar to...

Raised in 1926 by R.C.Palmer at the Dominion Experiment Station, Summerland, British Columbia, Canada. Introduced in 1936. Fruits have firm, crisp, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a refreshing vinous flavour. A great favourite with children being small,...

Raised in about 1930 by Meredith B. Strapp, Maidstone, South Africa. First distributed in 1953 by F.B. Harrington. Named and introduced in Australia in 1958 by Longbecker Nurseries, Bunderburg. Fruits have firm, rather coarse, yellowish white flesh with...