Best Cold Hardy Apple Trees For The North & Scotland

Apple Tree Varieties Suitable for Scotland & the North

Apple trees are incredibly hardy, however, their flowers can be damaged in freezing weather, which prevents them from cropping that year.
The damage happens when frozen flowers defrost too quickly, so a solution for all but the coldest conditions is to plant your fruit trees against a west facing wall or other position where they get no morning sun.
By the time the sun gets to the flowers, the air temperature should have risen sufficiently for them to have thawed slowly and safely.

List of Late Flowering Apple Trees

The further North you are, the shorter your growing season, so the earlier you want your harvest to be. The short list of trees with frost hardy flowers and early cropping times is: Discovery, James Grieve, and Worcester Pearmain.

Varieties noted as Frost Hardy Flowers are extra tough, suitable for the coldest frost pockets or cold pool valleys.

Name	Type	Harvest	Pollination Group	Notes
Arthur Turner	Cooking	Early	C
Ashmeads Kernel	Eating	Late	D
Beauty of Bath	Eating	Early	C
Blenheim Orange	Cook/Eat	Late	D	Triploid
Bloody Ploughman	Eating	Main	D
Charles Ross	Cook/Eat	Main	C
Court Pendu Plat	Eating	Late	G
Crispin	Cook/Eat	Late	C
Discovery	Eating	Early	C	Frost Hardy Flowers
Egremont Russet	Eating	Main	B	Frost Hardy Flowers
Ellison’s Orange	Eating	Main	D	Frost Hardy Flowers
Early Victoria	Cooking	Early	C
Fiesta	Eating	Main	D	Frost Hardy Flowers
Greensleeves	Eating	Main	B	Frost Hardy Flowers
Grenadier	Cooking	Early	C
Howgate Wonder	Cooking	Late	D
Irish Peach	Eating	Early	B
James Grieve	Cook/Eat	Early	C	Frost Hardy Flowers
Jupiter	Eating	Main	D	Triploid
Keswick Codlin	Cook/Eat	Early	B
Lane’s Prince Albert	Cooking	Late	D
Laxton’s Superb	Eating	Late	D	Frost Hardy Flowers
Lord Derby	Cooking	Main	D	Frost Hardy Flowers
Lord Lambourne	Eating	Main	C
Newton Wonder	Cooking	Late	D	Frost Hardy Flowers
Reverend W. Wilkes	Cooking	Early	B
Scotch Bridget	Cooking	Late	C
Spartan	Eating	Late	D	Frost Hardy Flowers
Sunset	Eating	Main	C	Frost Hardy Flowers
Tydemans Late Orange	Eating	Main	D	Frost Hardy Flowers (not suitable for very windy places)
Worcester Pearmain	Eating	Early	C	Frost Hardy Flowers

Apple Trees for Frost Pockets in the South

There are some more apple trees that do have frost resistant flowers but aren’t really suitable for the shorter growing season in the North & Scotland.
If you live South of Leeds and have a frosty site, you can grow all the trees listed above, as well as Adam’s Pearmain, Falstaff, Golden Delicious, and Red Falstaff.

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Best Cold Hardy Apple Trees For The North & Scotland

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Best Cold Hardy Apple Trees For The North & Scotland

Apple Tree Varieties Suitable for Scotland & the North

List of Late Flowering Apple Trees

Apple Trees for Frost Pockets in the South