Bright Future Apple Trees - Delivered by Mail Order from the Nursery with a 1 Year Guarantee

Bright Future Apple Trees. Wonderful dessert apple with exceptional disease resistance, bred to celebrate 50 years of Garden Organic.

Browse our full range of apple trees or see our other fruit trees.

About Malus domestica Bright Future

Bright Future is a new breed of dessert apple with attractive flushed red - orange skin and dense crisp and juicy flesh. The flavour is rich and aromatic with a lovely sweet acid combination that sweetens the longer it is left on the tree, so it is best picked late in the season for this reason.

It is bred specifically to be highly disease resistant meaning it is a great apple for organic gardeners.

Characteristics:

Fruit: Dessert. Orange-red. Sweet acid flavour and crisp texture
Pollination: Group B
Harvesting: October. Stores well until the new year
Characteristics: Very hardy, very disease resistant
Suitable for: Training, freestanding, organic cultivation

Great for your garden:

It will be happiest planted in a sunny sheltered spot away from frost pockets and strong winds. It could look wonderful planted into a small orchard with other pollinators or as a standard specimen into grass. You can browse our full range of apple trees here for a suitable pollination partner.

If space is limited why not try training it against as sunny wall as a cordon or an espalier? It has exceptionally large blossom in spring and is highly attractive to beneficial insects and bees. A very hardy apple that requires minimal input!

Look out for: As a commemoration to celebrate 50 years of Garden Organic this apple has been bred with exceptional resistance to disease, including scab and mildew.

Malus domestica Bright Future Trivia

It was the last apple to be bred by perhaps Britain's most famous apple breeder Hugh Ermen. Hugh had enjoyed a long and fruitful career working for the national fruit collections at Brogdale in Kent.

It was however when he retired that the hard work really started! In his semi-detached suburban garden he planted hundreds of dwarf apple varieties. He cross pollinated them and sent any seedlings thought to have promising attributes to Frank P. Matthews nursery for further tests. He was responsible for many our best loved varieties, and is renowned for breeding varieties that are tough, resilient and easy to grow.

How Apple Trees are Measured & Delivered:

Our fruit trees are delivered in up to 3 shapes and you can also buy selected apple trees as ready-made cordons.

Maiden: This unbranched tree is the smallest starting size. You can train maidens into espaliers and cordons.
Cordon: Bright Future trees are spur bearers, so they are suitable for cordons & espaliers.
Bush: This is a style of freestanding tree with a short trunk of about 60cms. It will grow to about 3 metres tall.
Half-Standard: This is a freestanding style that will grow into a full sized, "normal" apple tree, about 4 metres tall.

How to plant Malus domestica Bright Future trees:

Bare rooted trees are planted between late autumn and early spring, whilst containerised plants can be planted all year round. They like a sheltered, sunny site and a free draining soil. Dig a hole no deeper than the roots but around quite a bit wider than the root ball. Fork it over and dig in some well rotted compost or manure, as well as a dressing of Rootgrow mcycorrhizal fungi..

Place the tree in the hole and back fill with soil, heeling carefully into place. Stake in the direction of the prevailing wind.

Keep well watered in dry weather and top dress with a general-purpose fertiliser as the plant comes into growth in spring. Prune trained apples in summer, and standards in winter.

Spacing Bright Future apple trees:

Freestanding bushes: 12-18 feet (4-6 metres) between trees and rows.
Freestanding half-standards: 18-30 feet (6-10 metres) between trees and rows.
In general, allow 1 more metre between rows than there is between each tree in the row.

Watch our video on how to plant a fruit tree for full instructions on planting a bush or half-standard sized tree.

If you are growing a maiden sized apple tree into a freestanding tree, a bamboo cane is enough support.
If you are growing a cordon or espalier, you will need to install training wires to support them.
Remember to water establishing apple trees during dry weather for at least a year after planting.

Apple Tree Planting Accessories:

For bush and half standard apple trees, our tree planting pack includes a wooden stake & rubber tie to support the tree and a biodegradable mulch mat with pegs, which protects the soil at the base of your tree from drying out and stops weeds from sprouting.

Read our full terms and conditions here.

Delivery: Our standard delivery charges are:

Small box (Orders containing only seedlings or rooted cuttings) £7.20 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £60 inc VAT)
Standard box (Bareroots up to 1.2m) £11.40 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £60 inc VAT)
Large box (Pots up to and incl. 7.5L) £15.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £100 inc VAT)
Trees & Hedging (Bareroots & trees 1.2m+) £18.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £120 inc VAT)
Pallets (Root balls, large pots, trees etc) £60.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £240 inc VAT)

Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
We will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.

Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.

Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week if there is no heavy rain.

Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.

Pollination Group	Pollination Group B
Fruiting	Late Season
Type	Eating

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Bright Future Apple Trees

Malus domestica Bright Future