Apple Sunset

Apple Sunset

Bred in Kent in the early 20th century, Apple Sunset is a mid-season dessert apple with most of the virtues of its parent Cox’s Orange Pippin, and few of the disadvantages – an ideal garden apple even in northern areas. The fruit is small to medium-sized, with golden skin streaked and blushed with orange-red and with a little russeting. The flesh is crisp, with a good sweet/acid balance and is Cox-like in flavour, particularly in warm summers. Compact spur-bearing tree, disease-resistant, and particularly easy to maintain. Reliable, heavy cropper; thin for larger fruit, but there is no tendency to biennial bearing. Notably resistant to scab. Holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit.

Site: Some shelter
Soil: Any reasonably well drained
Position: Crops best in full sun
Pick: Late September
Keep: October–December
Hardiness: Hardy
Pollination: Partially self-fertile. Pollination Group 3 (pollinates with Groups 2, 3 and 4)
Uses: Eating apple; juicing

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Type | Size: Bareroot 1yr
Rootstock: M26
Price
€20
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