Elstar Apple Trees - Mini Patio

Intense, honey sweet flavour with a tangy tartness when fresh that mellows after about three weeks off the tree. The bite is medium-crisp, and the white flesh is very juicy. Good for apple sauce. A reliable, heavy cropping tree that definitely needs thinning to avoid a biennial cropping habit. RHS Plants for Pollinators.

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

Features:

Only sold as a mini patio tree
Eating: Intense, honey sweet flavour
Spur bearer
Self sterile.
Pollinator
Pollination Group C
Harvesting: Late October.
Stores until the end of the year
RHS Plants for Pollinators
RHS Award of Garden Merit

Rootstocks:
Patio trees use a M9 rootstock with a high graft to control their vigor.

Pollination Partners for Elstar:
Your trees are self sterile and their flowers must be pollinated to make fruit.
Elstar is in pollination Group D.
This means that they will cross-pollinate with other apple trees in pollination Groups C, D and E.

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

Disease notes:
Disease susceptibility: Scab, Mildew. Somewhat susceptible to fire blight.

Did You Know?

Known variously around the world as Luster, Lustre Elstar, Valstar, or Elton (not Elton Beauty, which is a British apple that was bred around the same time). It was bred by Dr. Tijs Visser between 1955 and 1963 at the Dutch Institut für Gärtnerische Pflanzenzüchtung, and then introduced commercially in 1972. Its parents are Golden Delicious (seed) and Ingrid Marie (pollen), and it is in turn one parent of Santana.

Notes on planting Elstar:
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.

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.

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Delivery: Our standard delivery charges are:

Small box (orders containing only seedlings or rooted cuttings) = £7.20 (inc VAT) per order.
Standard box (bareroot plants up to 1.2metres) = £11.40 (inc VAT) per order.
Large box (pots up to and including 7.5 litres) = £15.00 (inc VAT) per order.
Trees & hedging (bareroot plants and trees over 1.2 metres in height) = £19.80 (inc VAT) per order.
Orders delivered to Scotland and the Isle of Wight may incur a surcharge (calculated during checkout). This is applicable to ALL orders to these locations.
Pallets (for all orders of root balls, and large orders, a pallet price will be automatically applied at checkout) = £75.00 (inc VAT) per order.
If, for reasons of seasonality an order needs to be split, then we will charge for each delivery. If the whole order was eligible for free P&P then the second of the split orders will be delivered free of charge.

*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.

General Info	RHS AGM, Pollinator, Spur Fruiting
Pollination Group	Pollination Group D
Fruiting	Mid Season Fruiting, Late Season
Type	Eating, Mini Patio (Potted)

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SIZES	1-3	4+
Patio Tree, Potted	Stock = 19 £39.99	Stock = 19 £39.99
	Prices include VAT(where applicable)

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Elstar Mini Patio Apple Trees

Malus domestica Elstar

MAIDEN BAREROOT

BUSH BAREROOT

Elstar Apple Trees - Mini Patio

Features:

Did You Know?

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

Watering your Hedging and Trees

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