Delcorf / Delbarestivale Apple Trees - Mini Patio

This popular, mid-season eating apple is seriously sweet, with a complex, fruity, aromatic flavour that hints at berries and anise, and the bite is "medium crisp". It ripens in late September, stores for about 4-5 weeks, and juices well. It has great blossom that starts off pink and matures to white, with plenty of nectar to share with the bees.

Browse our range of apple trees or all our fruit trees.

Features:

Only sold as a mini patio tree with very low vigour
AKA Delbarestivale / Delba
Eating: Medium crispness, juicy, very sweet & aromatic
Spur bearer
Self sterile.
Pollinator
Pollination Group C
Harvesting: Late September.
RHS Plants for Pollinators

Rootstocks:
Wonder Trees are an innovative type of miniature patio fruit tree. These ones use a M9 rootstock with a high graft to control their vigor.

Pollination Partners for Delcorf:

Your trees are self sterile and their flowers must be pollinated to make fruit.
Delcorf is in pollination Group C.
This means that they will cross-pollinate with other apple trees in pollination Groups B, C & D.

See our Guide to Apple Tree Pollination for a full list of partners & more tips about pollination.

Disease notes:
Disease susceptibility: Scab, Mildew.

Did You Know?

Raised in the 1950-60s by Georges Delbard of Pépinieres Delbard, Malicorne, France, from Golden Delicious and Starks Jonagrimes. It has been popular in the UK since 1974, after the National Fruit Trials (then run by Brogdale Farm) gave it a glowing review.

It is also known as Delbarestivale (Delba for short), Delcorf Estivale, Estivale, and Monidel.

Notes on planting Delcorf:
All fruit trees like a rich soil with decent drainage, protection from the wind and plenty of sun. Apple trees like clay soil, as long as it is not prone to bad waterlogging.
It is not recommended for organic growers in the more humid West and South of Britain, where scab is more common.

Prepare your site before planting:
Improving the soil in advance of planting your apple trees will help them establish quickly and be productive for years to come. After you have destroyed all the weeds and grass (use a glyphosate based weed-killer for tough weeds), you can dig the soil over. Remove any stones and rubbish and mix in well rotted compost or manure down to the depth of about 2 spades.
You can do this on planting day, but when you do it weeks or months in advance, you will give the soil time to settle again.

Remember to water establishing apple trees during dry weather for at least a year after planting.

Apple Tree Planting Accessories:
We recommend using mycorrhizal "friendly fungi" on the roots of all new trees, especially if your soil is poorly fertile.

After you plant an apple tree, the most important thing to do is water it in dry weather and weed around it. Both of these will be necessary for at least a year after planting. We recommend using a mulch mat as well.

The best tip for helping your tree to establish and quickly become mature and productive is to remove all the fruit that it produces in the first year after planting, as soon as the flowers fade. This will give the tree a chance to develop its roots, which are the foundation of the tree's strength, and sturdy branches that can bear the weight of a heavy crop without snapping.

Hygiene & Diseases:
Dead, damaged or diseased wood can be pruned off as soon as it appears.
Disinfect your pruning tools between every cut if there is any sign of disease.
Burn or dispose of any diseased material, do not compost it.

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)

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

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.

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 in summer 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.

Misc	Pollinator, Spur Fruiting
Pollination Group	Pollination Group C
Fruiting	Mid Season Fruiting
Type	Eating, Mini Patio (Potted)

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Features:

Did You Know?

Bareroot planting is best done between November and April Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?

Baked Camembert with Olive and Pecorino Straws

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Bareroot planting is best done between November and April
Bareroot and potted - what's the difference?