Howgate Wonder Apple Trees

Howgate Wonder Apple Trees: Cooking, Juicing, Eating

The Howgate wonder is a large apple, red streaked over a ground of yellow/green in that properly old-fashioned fairy tale look. Gorgeous pink and white blossom in May.
The cream-coloured flesh has a crisp crunch, that bridges the gap between cooker and eater when fully ripe.

Mainly used as a cooker, it rivals the famous Bramley by keeping its shape when cooked, a bonus for apple tarts. The juice is refreshing and works well when mixed with another, sweeter apple.

Even in less than perfect conditions, it will perform well producing a generous crop of large apples.

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Delivery season: Bareroot plants are delivered in late Autumn to Spring, about November-March inclusive. Pot grown plants, year round.

Features:

• Colour: red/green
• Use: cooking, cider, eating
• Holds its shape baked
• Spur bearer (good for cordons & espaliers)
• Pollination: Self fertile, group D
• Picking: October.
• Storage: Until February
• Apple colour: Red/Green
• Suitable for Scotland
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

Growing Howgate Wonder Apples

Apples like rich, well drained soil, and will thrive on clay in locations that do not get waterlogged in winter.
A full day of sun and shelter from the wind is ideal.

Disease Notes:
Good disease resistance

Rootstocks:
We use MM106 for Howgate Wonder, the UK standard for medium-sized trees, ideal for gardeners. It gives a half-standard about 4m tall, and a bush about 3m.
MM106 maidens are suitable for cordons and espaliers.

The vintage look of the slightly streaky red and green apple, the blossom in spring, and a summer flowering rambler rose like Albertine or Felicite Perpetue make Howgate Wonder a decorative feature for three seasons of the year.

Pollination Partners

Your trees are self fertile, making decent crops without a pollination partner, but still perform best with one.
Howgate Wonder is in Pollination Group D, which cross-pollinates with other apple trees in Groups C, D, and E.

Use our Fruit Pollination Checker to quickly find pollination partners, or Apple Pollination Guide to learn more.