HERITAGE APPLE TREES
(Eating apples, cooking apples and cider apples)
Popular with home gardeners, orchardists heritage apple tree are readily available for sale. They are also sought after by cider makers.
With hundreds of varieties of Apple Trees for sale on the market it is easy to find a variety suited to your climate and fruiting requirements.
Consider growing you own heritage organic apples from the 100s of varieties of trees available for sale. And remember that apples have different qualities and different sugar content, some are great for eating, some for cooking and some are grown specifically as cider apples.
Apple Trees for sale online come in a range of varieties including eating apples, cooking apples and cider apples. Multigraft Apple trees and Apple Trees on dwarfing rootstock are available for sale online. Apple trees may be espaliered to save on space
Heritage Apple Trees and other varieties
With more varieties of apple trees, including heritage varieties becoming available for sale as dwarf varieties as well as multi graft trees Apple trees are increasingly popular as a home fruit tree. Apple trees are an excellent tree to grow as espaliers if you are a little short on space.
Remember that Apples from different varieties ripen at different times of the year, in Australia some as early as Christmas and others as late as June depending on location as well. Apple trees are also classed in terms of flavour, generally as Sharp, Sweet, Bittersharp or Bittersweet.
Includes: Heritage Apple Trees, ‘Gala’, ‘Golden Delicious’, ‘Jonathan’, ‘Red Fuji’, Ballerina series, ‘Pink Lady’ and many others.
Apple Tree Rootstocks
Apple trees are grown on a variety of rootstocks or as the original variety, called a ‘seedling’. So MM111 is a drought resistant root stock slightly smaller than a normal (seedling) tree. Others rootstocks have different qualities, see the dwarf apple tree section for some explanation.
You may also be interested in
- dwarf apple trees
- cider apple trees
- crab apple trees
- coddling moth control
- bird nets for fruit trees
- heritage fruit trees
- pear trees
Apple Trees are available for sale online from the following growers and nurseries
"Propagation and Production of Native and Exotic Trees
with Natural Root Systems from 2 to 2,000 lts."
www.njrivett.com.au
55 McDougal Rd Neerim South Victoria 3831 PH: (03) 56281507
Advanced ornamental trees and garden designs and concept plans. Direct to your property combined with specialist knowledge and outstanding service.
www.blericktreefarm.com.au
Carey Gully, Adelaide Hills.
Family business selling a large range of deciduous trees in pots 1-4m high. Crepe myrtle specialist. Includes Ornamental pears & plums, Red maples, Japanese maples, Gingko, Cercis, Ash, Birch, Crab apples, Weeping cherries, Gleditsia, Liquidambar and more. Hedging plants, evergreen trees & fruit trees.
www.adelaidetreefarm.com.au
Field grown tree nursery, providing a full planning & implementation service, over 90 species and 25 years experience. Specialising in Maples, Oaks, Ash, Pistachia, Dogwood, Birch, Pear, Honey locust, Plane Elm and many more!
www.treekeepers.com.au