Annie Elizabeth Apple Trees

Annie Elizabeth Cooking Apple Trees

Annie Elizabeth apples are mid-season cookers that store well. The apples are large but firm enough so that when they soften as they are cooked (baked or stewed) they hold their shape. The skin is tough and waxy both of which are qualities needed by apples you want to store and Annie Elizabeth will keep for up to 6 months in a cool, dry, frost-free place. This is a fast-growing, hardy tree and its blossom is a sumptuous, deep pink-red.

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Characteristics:

• Use: Cooking. Sweet & mild flavour, keeps its shape.
• Spur Bearer: suitable for cordons & training on wires.
• Tree's growth habit: Strong vigour. Upright, compact form.
• Harvest: Early-mid October.
• Store & ripen in a cool, dry place: Until April

Pollination Partners for Annie Elizabeth:
Your trees are partially self fertile and their flowers must be pollinated to make good crops.
Annie Elizabeth is in pollination Group E.
This means that they will cross-pollinate with other apple trees in pollination Groups D, E and F.
This tree's flowers have good frost resistance.

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

Disease resistance: Scab, Canker

History & Parentage:
Mr Samuel Greatorex raised this tree around 1857, possibly from the pip of a Blenheim Orange apple. It was propagated and sold by Harrison's of Leicester about 10 years later. It was a commercially grown tree for some decades in the UK, disappearing from farms during the 20th century's decline in orchards.

How Apple Trees are Measured & Delivered:
Our fruit trees are delivered in 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: Annie Elizabeth trees are spur-bearers, so they can be made into cordons and espaliers.
Bush: This is a style of freestanding tree with a short trunk of about 60cm. 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.