Date: Saturday 20 September 2025, 10:30 am-3:30 pm
Venue: York Museum Gardens
Come and join us for the final plant sale of the year!
We have a selection of young, grafted apple trees available to buy at our plant sale on Saturday 20th September. There are 16 different cultivars, 6 of which are heritage Yorkshire varieties that can be found growing in our newly planted Orchard. There is a range of cooking and dessert apples. All were grafted on site in March 2024, and are currently growing in 5-litre pots on M26 root stock*
All trees priced at £45. We have limited availability of each cultivar; please send an enquiry if you would like to preorder.
* M26 is a good general-purpose rootstock, which can be used for a wide variety of purposes, from medium-sized bush trees, to cordons and espaliers. One of the most cold-hardy of the Malling-series rootstocks.
Cultivars Available
Nancy Jackson (3 available)
Excellent late cooking variety, first described in 1875 but probably much older. Very large handsome fruit, green with a deep rosy-red blush, which keep their shape when cooked. Superb, rich flavour, the fruit stores through until April. Widely grown in the North Riding of Yorkshire throughout the 1900s.
Flower of the Town (1 available)
Rare traditional Yorkshire variety, originating in the famous Backhouse nursery in York, sometime before 1831. Bright red flushed second-early dessert apple which is sharp and hard. The tree is hardy, vigorous, and spreading, and bears large brightly coloured fruit. Counted as a dessert variety, the flavour is crisp and sharp.
Bramley (1 available)
A large, late cooking apple with mid-green skin, sometimes flushed with brownish-red, and sharp-tasting, greenish-white, flesh
Catshead (2 available)
A large, midseason heritage cooking apple, with an angular shape, yellow-green skin flushed with orange, and dry, crisp white flesh that cooks to a firm, sharp puree. Ready to harvest in mid-autumn
Adam’s Pearmain (2 available)
A late, dessert apple with yellow, conical fruit with red stripes, an orange-red flush and scattered russetting. The cream flesh has a fairly dry texture, and an aromatic, nutty flavour. Spreading, part tip-bearing trees produce a good crop in mid-autumn, the fruit storing to early spring.
Egremont Russet (1 available)
A dessert cultivar in Suitable for northerly, colder, higher rainfall areas. Produces good, regular crops of apples; yellowish-green, up to half flushed brownish-red and covered with russet. Characteristic nutty flavour with a season of use from October to December
Katy (1 available)
An early-season, vigorous, heavy-cropping, dessert apple for picking and eating in early to mid-autumn. The skin is yellow-green, prominently flushed with pinkish-red and the juicy, white flesh has a sweet, tangy flavour.
Discovery (2 available)
‘Discovery’ is a dessert apple that has a fairly compact habit. It can grow to 2.5-8m in height and width, depending on the rootstock. White flowers are followed by fruit that can be used from August to September.
Balsam (2 available)
Known as ‘The farmer’s wife’s apple’, this smallish, bright green apple was once grown in almost every garden and orchard in Yorkshire. Crops consistently and prolifically with the added bonus of very attractive pinkish-white blossom. A strong grower with a vigorous branching habit.
Merton Worcester (1 available)
An excellent early to mid season red apple with a strawberry flavour.
James Grieves (1 available)
An early dessert cultivar, suitable for northerly, colder rainfall areas. Good, regular crops of apples, yellow-green speckled and striped orange-red, but can easily bruise. Can be used for cooking if picked early before ripe. Savoury, crisp to melting flesh; when cooked keeps shape, with juicy, delicate flavour. Season of use is from September to October, and longer
Ribston Pippin (2 available)
18th century eating apple, first grown at Ribston Hall, Yorkshire. Produces good, regular crops of apples, greenish-yellow flushed orange red. An intense, rich, aromatic flavour; more acidity and more robust than Cox. Season of use from October to January.
Yorkshire Greening (2 available)
A large, late, cooking apple with dark green skin flushed with red, and very juicy, firm, acidic, greenish flesh cooking to a strong, fruity puree. Listed in Perfects of Pontefract’s catalogue of 1769, this is old Yorkshire variety was prized for it’s tart flavour and ability to cut the fattiness of a roast goose at Christmas time.
Pollination group C
Sharleston Pippin (2 available)
Originated in Yorkshire, 1888. Rare Yorkshire dessert variety. Light flavour, sweet and juicy.
Dog’s Snout (1 available)
Quite a rare Yorkshire Apple, this produces unusual pear-shaped fruit with a wonderful, distinct flavour. Delightful pale pink blossom in the Spring. Very hardy and reliable.
Fiesta (1 available)
Its flavour is rich, aromatic and sweet with a crisp texture from its orange/red with short red stripes, slightly ribbed, apples. Ideal for colder areas. Although classed as a dessert apple, it can also be used for cooking and juicing.
The plant sale will be running 10:30-3:30pm outside the Yorkshire Museum.
Not only will buying a plant support the work of York Museums Trust but will also be your chance to have a part of York Museum Gardens at home.
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