Limelight Apple Trees

Limelight Apple Trees produce mid-season eating apples that store well. They are specifically bred with the amateur grower in mind and so are really easy to grow. They produce heavy crops of yellow-green eating apples that are deliciously crisp, sharp and refreshing. The apples ripen successively from September to early November and keep for a few weeks so you have a long eating season. The windfalls are also excellent for juicing. Limelight apples are well named; the yellow-green fruits are almost luminous and contrast beautifully against the dark green foliage making this a really attractive specimen tree.

Browse our full range of apple trees or see all the fruit trees we sell.

Characteristics of Malus domestica Limelight:

Fruit: Eating. Yellow-green. Medium sized. Sharp flavour and crisp, juicy texture
Pollination: Group D
Harvesting: September - November. Stores for a few weeks
Characteristics: Spur fruiting, hardy, heavy cropping
Suitable for: Training, freestanding, organic cultivation

Great for your garden:

Malus domestica Limelight is best planted in an open, sunny spot, away from frost pockets. They are not self-fertile, which means they need other apples planted nearby to aid pollination. For suitable partners, you can view our full range of apple trees here.

They are tidy and compact making them suitable for small gardens. They look great in an orchard, as a specimen in a lawn or worked into an informal or cottage garden planting scheme.

Why not try lining your driveway with apple trees? Their blossom is very attractive to bees and looks beautiful in spring, followed by their highly decorative and delicious fruits through summer and well into autumn.

Look out for: Limelight apple trees can have some susceptibility to scab. This can be controlled for the following season by pruning out infected branches, removing any fallen fruit or debris and burning.

Malus domestica Limelight Trivia

Malus Domestica Limelight was bred by the legendary Henry Ermen and is the result of a cross-breeding of 'Greensleeves' and 'Discovery' apples. Fantastic flavour and great disease resistance have made these varieties two of our best-loved and most popular apples for domestic gardens. So, with a lot to live up to, it is no wonder the resulting progeny was aptly named 'Limelight'!

How to plant Malus domestica Limelight trees:

Bare root trees are available for planting between November and March, whilst container grown plants can be bought all year round - although planting in winter is preferable.

Apple trees like a sunny sheltered site with a free draining soil. Dig a hole no deeper than the root ball but around three times their diameter. Fork over the bottom of the hole and add some well rotted compost or manure, as well as dressing of Rootgrow mcycorrhizal fungi.

Place the tree in the hole and back fill with soil, firming 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. Trained apples are pruned in summer, and standards in winter.

Spacing Limelight 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.

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Delivery: The basic delivery charge for orders of bareroot plants is £6.50 + vat, which increases to £12.55 + vat if you add any pot-grown plants, standard trees or fruit trees to the order.
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.

Misc	Pollinator, Spur Fruiting
Area	Frost Pockets, Scotland & The North
Pollination Group	Pollination Group D
Fruiting	Mid Season Fruiting
Type	Eating
Flowering	Apr

	NUMBER OF PLANTS
SIZES	1-2	3-9	10-24	25+
MAIDEN	Out of Stock £15.49	Out of Stock £14.95	Out of Stock £13.95	Out of Stock £12.95
CORDON	SOLD OUT FOR THE SEASON £21.95	SOLD OUT FOR THE SEASON £20.95	SOLD OUT FOR THE SEASON £19.95	SOLD OUT FOR THE SEASON £18.95

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