We take great care in delivering healthy trees to your doorstep. Each order is hand-picked, carefully packaged, and shipped using trusted couriers to ensure safe arrival.
Delivery Times
Standard Delivery (3–5 working days): £6.95
Express Delivery (1–2 working days): £12.95
Free Delivery: On all orders over £100
Packaging
All trees are shipped in eco-friendly recyclable packaging. Roots are securely wrapped to retain moisture during transit, keeping your tree healthy and ready for planting.
Delivery Areas
We currently deliver across the UK mainland. Unfortunately, we cannot deliver to Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands due to plant health regulations.
Order Tracking
Once your order has been dispatched, you will receive a tracking link by email so you can follow your tree’s journey from our nursery to your garden.
Special Notes
If you require delivery on a specific date (e.g., birthday gift, landscaping project), please add a note at checkout and we’ll do our best to accommodate.
Fruit Trees
How are they measured?
Maiden: Unbranched tree, the most basic starting size, which you can train into the other forms (apart from mini patio trees; we only sell Little Miss Figgy), including wire-trained cordons, fans, and espaliers. Some maidens are pre-cut to 80cm, ready to become a Bush, or 130cm, ready to become a Half-Standard.
Bush: Branched tree with a short trunk about 60cm tall. Will grow to about 3m. Ideal for any size garden.
Half-Standard: Branched tree with a trunk about 120cm tall. Will grow into a full sized, "normal" tree, about 4m. Ideal for orchards & large gardens, easy to mow underneath.
What to expect
Bareroot fruit trees have no soil around the roots, and are only delivered dormant in the Winter Planting Season, November-March.
Pot grown trees are available the rest of the year, Spring and Autumn are also great for planting.
Spartan is a super little eating apple. It boasts a glorious red colour that deepens to a maroon red when fully ripe with whiter than white, crisp and fine flesh. Visually therefore it's tempting to eat and in practice its sweet, slightly vinous flavour makes it very popular. Cropping in October it's a relatively late eater. Its single, white blossom is very pretty and is at its best in the first half of May.
Spartan is a generous cropper that must be thinned to prevent it making a lot of undersize fruit.
It's susceptible to scab, which tends to be more of a problem in the warmer, more humid West side of the UK.
It grows & crops well even in the far North.
Being an excellent pollinator, Spartan is a useful apple to include in an orchard where you may have triploid or other group B-D apples. Leave the apples on the tree for as long as you can because the flavour improves as the colour deepens. The apples do not store well because the flesh becomes woolly and soft. Keep them for up to a week only. Spartan juice is delicious and well worth the trouble so if you have excess fruit, juice them and freeze what you can. With its blossom early in May you could also surround Spartan with an array of bulbs to make for a wonderful spring display.
Features
Height: to 4.5 m
Use: Eating
Pruning: Spur bearer
Pollination: Self Fertile
Picking: October
Apple colour: Red
Pollination Group: Group C
Pollination: Excellent pollinator
Best grown in the East of UK, where scab is less severe
Not recommended for organic growers
History & Trivia
This apple has nothing to do with Greece; unusually, it's the product of a formal scientific breeding programme carried out during the 1920s in Summerland, British Columbia. Rarely do we find apple varieties coming from the Americas to us but it has proved to be a fortunate move and the apple is now grown widely across the UK having been introduced in 1936. One of Spartan's parents is the American apple McIntosh which gave it the deeply coloured skin and white flesh. Its pollen parent is said to be Newtown Pippin.
Video courtesy of Fruitwise, copyright Stephen Hayes