A big lump of a cooker from the Clyde Valley! To complete your Scottish Cookers you will need this one. Its a late ripener, and cooks to a gold puree.

A very early ( July) crisp little green apple. A nice one to get the season going!

This is a distinctly Cox like apple,  ripening here late September. Fairly productive and, unlike Cox, has healthy clean fruit too. So if you like a tasty crisp apple this may be for you.

Don’t be put off by the French name, this russet grows very well in our garden. It is a very late eater or cooker, and keeps well into the New Year if you wish.

This popular apple in Norway, was bred in Canada from a Red Melba cross. It has been on trial with me for a few years now. It is a bright red oval apple , and ripens in mid August. It is sweet and juicy , very productive on M26, and so a very useful early eater. I guess you need to use it quickly.

Will continue to report on this lovely variety!

A very nice Carse of Gowrie eating apple, sweet, tasty and ready mid -season.

What a strange apple this is. It is distinct in the nursery with it’s long silvery leaves. Produced and named by David Storrie, a nurseryman in The Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire. Crisp small bright apples are early and soon go over, so definitely to be eaten quickly. Rosebery was Prime Minster by the way!

This is a Keswick cross, so has  good genes. It is an early cooker, can be small unless thinned, but is very hardy and productive, a character of all the codlins. I came across a row of these near the motorway near Falkirk, they were very old and neglected, but still form a really productive and healthy hedgerow! It cooks to a nice fluff, or is a crisp eater.

This apple was developed from a Cox x Delicious cross in New Zealand, and i was tempted to propagate it after tasting it in Dunkeld Orchard a few years ago.  It has a very fine and unique flavour.

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A very nice russet eater probably 200 years old or more. Cinnamon colour, ripening in January. A good keeper. Old trees have been seen in the Clyde Valley with fruit hanging on well  into the New Year.