Apple Bountiful (12L, 4-5ft)

The Malus domestica ‘Bountiful’ is a mid-season cooking apple that can be used in a variety of different dishes; pies, pastries…

Bountiful produces large, pale green apples with an orange-red flush. Once cooked, the apple slices hold their shape as well as their sweetness. The mid-green leaves that accommodate the branches are complimented by the white flowers that appear in the Spring.

Apple are one of the easier fruit trees to grow and are increasingly becoming more popular with gardeners. They are medium sized deciduous trees with flashy Spring flowers and ornamental or edible fruit in the Autumn.

In the Winter the fruits can be eaten as dessert apples.

Apple trees benefit from growing in slightly sheltered, sunny area, as the blossom will attract a large variety of pollinators as well as the sun will help ripen the fruit.

MM106 (Semi Dwarfing) are suitable for all forms except standards. The apple trees are tolerant to various soils like grass orchards and poor soils. Widely used rootstock, but not for small gardens. This tree will begin fruiting after three or four years with a ultimate height of between 3-4m.

M26 (Dwarfing) are good for spindlebush, espalier and ideal for containers. Typically starts fruiting after two or three years with an ultimate height of between 2.4-3m.