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Bramley Seedling Apple Tree

Name: Bramley Seedling Apple Tree
Brand: Ornamental Trees
SKU: BSA.MM106.12.1
Price: 67.5 GBP
Availability: InStock

Classic Cooking Apple

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Awards RHS Award of Garden Merit

Final size M27 2m / M26 2.5-3m / MM106 5-6m in 10 years

Cropping period Mid season (October)

Fruit Cooking and cider blends

Pollination group Triploid, group B

Soil Moist but well-draining to well-draining

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Description

This award-winning tree grows the UK’s most popular cooking apple – the Bramley apple. Bramley Seedling apples are large and juicy with a sharp, acidic flavour. They turn sweet and fluffy when cooked, and are particularly tasty when baked into fruit pies, crumbles and tarts. They store exceptionally well, which is another reason why they are so popular. Once harvested in the autumn they should last you well into the winter.

Bramley Seedling is a triploid apple, so it requires two different pollinating apple trees to ensure all trees are pollinated or one self fertile apple tree in the groups A, B or C. It is a vigorous grower and long lived (the original tree is over 200 years old). Because of its vigour, we stock Bramley Seedling as an M27 tree (very dwarf) in addition to our usual rootstocks.

Known by many as THE English cooking apple, Malus domestica 'Bramley's Seedling'was first grown in Nottinghamshire in the 1800s by Mary Ann Brailsford. The original apple tree is still alive and bearing fruit today – it even survived a lightning strike during a violent storm in the 1900s!

Planting Steps

1Preparation

Pot-grown plants can be planted at any time of year, whereas bare roots need to be planted between November and March.
Clear weeds and grass within a metre of the planting hole.
Dig a hole as deep as the root mass and twice as wide.
To help your plant establish more effectively, sprinkle Rootgrow in the hole.

2Planting

Gently loosen the roots and place into the planting hole.
Ensure the top of the plant's compost is flush with the level of the surrounding soil and the graft union or collar of the tree is above ground level.
Mix 50% of the original soil with 50% compost.
Fill in the hole, firming the soil gently.

3Last Steps

Water generously around the base of the plant.
If you are planting either a single stem tree or mature standard tree, we recommend adding a staking kit and rabbit guard.

Aftercare Advice

Apple trees require a good watering regime for a couple of years whilst they establish. Water well and regularly through spring and summer, increasing in hot or dry weather. If planting in autumn, you may only need to water a little. It is advisable to keep the area free of competing weeds and grass during this period.

Prune young apple trees for the first few years after planting to create a healthy, goblet-like shape with one central leader and several side shoots. Straight after planting, you can remove the lowest laterals. Prune back other branches by between a third and half their length.

In the following years, remove any shoots growing out of the trunk to maintain a clear stem. Also remove any crossing, diseased or damaged branches. If your tree is looking overcrowded, remove some of the larger branches to open up the canopy. This type of pruning should be carried out between November and March whilst the tree is dormant.

For more detailed advice and video guides, please visit our Help & Advice section.

MAINLAND UK — excluding remote locations
Small trees & shrubs*: £12 for 1 or more
Larger shrubs & mature Japanese Maples: £35 for 1 or more
Mature, Pleached, Hedging & Specialist Trees: £65 for 1 or more

REMOTE UK LOCATIONS — including Scottish Highlands & Islands
Small trees & shrubs*: £35 for 1 or more
Larger shrubs & mature Japanese Maples: £65 for 1 or more
Mature, Pleached, Hedging & Specialist Trees: £120 for 1 or more

*Small trees & shrubs are typically supplied in pots up to 15 litres.
Additional remote-location surcharges may apply.
Unfortunately, we are not able to make delivery of live plants to Northern Ireland or any countries outside of the UK.

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