Herefordshire Russet® Apple Trees

Herefordshire Russet Apple Trees, Eating

Herefordshire Russets are a simply delicious new Millennium apple and everything that you have heard about a russet that tastes like Cox is true. The golden brown fruit are a little on the small side and connoisseurs will know that it is often the little ones that pack the richest flavour.
Pick them in October, and they store quite well until Christmas.

The trees are strong growers and crop so well that you will have to thin the fruit. 

Browse our range of apple trees, or all our fruit trees.
Read our guide to buying apples.

Delivery season: Bareroot plants are delivered in late Autumn to Spring, about November-March inclusive. Pot grown plants, year round. 

Features:

• Eating; Aromatic Cox taste
• Vigorous tree
• Spur bearer
• Self fertile.
• Pollinator
• Pollination Group C.
• Harvesting: October.
• Stores till January.

Growing Herefordshire Russet Apples

Apples like rich, well drained soil, and will thrive on clay in locations that do not get waterlogged in winter.
A full day of sun and shelter from the wind is ideal.

Fruit needs plenty of thinning in most years.

Disease Notes:

Aphids love young stems. 

Rootstocks:
We use MM106 for Herefordshire Russet, the UK standard for medium-sized trees, ideal for gardeners. It gives a half-standard about 4m tall, and a bush about 3m. 
MM106 maidens are suitable for cordons and espaliers.

Pollination Partners for Herefordshire Russet 

Your trees are self fertile, making decent crops without a pollination partner, but still perform best with one.
Herefordshire Russet is in Pollination Group C, which cross-pollinates with other apple trees in Groups B, C and D.

Use our Fruit Pollination Checker to quickly find pollination partners, or Apple Pollination Guide to learn more.

Did You Know?

Bred by Hugh Erwin around the turn of the millennium from Cox and a Golden Delicious, it was released for sale in 2003. 

Apple Tree Delivery Shapes:

Most of our fruit trees are delivered in up to 3 shapes (maiden, bush, and half standard), and you can buy selected varieties as ready-made cordons and/or potted mini patio trees: scroll up to see what's in stock. 

Maiden: Unbranched tree, the most basic starting size, which you can train into the other forms (apart from mini patio trees).
Bush: Freestanding tree with a short trunk about 60cm tall. It will grow to about 3m. Ideal for small gardens.
Half-Standard: A freestanding form with a trunk about 120cm tall. It will grow into a full sized, "normal" apple tree, about 4m. Ideal for orchards, easy to mow underneath.

Cordon: Herefordshire Russet is a spur-bearer, suitable for cordons and espaliers.
Mini Patio Tree: Only sold pot-grown, these use a dwarfing rootstock to drastically reduce the tree's vigour and restrict the mature size. They are suitable for large patio containers, and for small gardens where a normal-sized bush or half-standard form won't fit.

Guide to Fruit Tree Sizing.