Apple Trees: Eating, Cooking & Cider

Buying Apple Trees Online:

Order Potted Apple Trees Now For August Delivery

Pre-Order Bareroot Apple Trees For 2025/26 Winter Season

The humble apple tree is more widely planted by UK gardeners than any other fruit variety.

Selected varieties are available pot grown year round.

• Uses: Eating, cooking, juicing and cider apple production
• Good Points: Huge variety of tree, shape, blossom, cropping time
• Position: Grow almost anywhere below 600 feet above sea level, where there is drainage and light

Dwarf Apple Trees

There are two kinds of dwarf tree, both of which are suitable for large pots.  

1. Those that you, the owner, prune and train to restrict their growth, such as cordons and espaliers. You make them from maidens (1-year-old trees), which could also be grown into a normal-sized tree if you let them.
2. Those that are "naturally" small due to the specialist grafting techniques and restrictive rootstocks, known as patio, mini, or dwarf fruit trees (which we don't sell). Even without pruning, they will never become a normal-sized tree.

Buying Apple Trees

For most gardens, it makes sense to start with a bush or half-standard, where available. 
Remember that if you want espaliers, cordons or stepovers you will need to start with a maiden (selected varieties are available as ready-made cordons).

Barerooted trees are only delivered between November and the end of March, the winter planting season.

• Order now, pay later: we don't charge your card until before delivery
• When your order is ready: your mail order fruit trees are delivered by next working day courier (not the next working day after ordering!)
• Friendly support: if there is anything wrong with your plants when you inspect them, Contact Us within 5 working days

All bareroot plants are covered by our Refund Guarantee, so you can give them a whirl with complete confidence.