Tickled Pink Apple Trees - Delivered by Mail Order from the Nursery with a 1 Year Guarantee

Tickled Pink Apple Trees. Fantastic dual purpose apple with gorgeous deep red skins and unusual rosy red flesh.

Browse all of our other apple tree varieties here or read our guide to buying the right apple tree.

About Malus domestica Tickled Pink

Malus domestica Tickled Pink apple trees are a superb choice for anyone looking for an attractive ornamental and edible apple.

The tree has exquisite carmine pink blossom in spring, followed by the beautiful ruby red fruits in autumn.

They are delicious eaten straight from the tree and are a brilliant all rounder in the kitchen too, keeping their lovely tart flavour and holding their shape well when cooked. Their pink flesh looks stunning in pies and crumbles, and produces abundant pink juice when pressed.

Characteristics of Malus domestica Tickled Pink:

Fruit: Dual purpose eating, cooking and juicing. Red. Mild-tart.
Pollination: Group C.
Harvesting: September Ã‚Â– October. Stores for a couple of weeks
Characteristics: Crimson blossom. Red spring foliage. Red fruits with red flesh
Suitable for: Training, freestanding, organic cultivation

Great for your garden:

Malus domestica Tickled Pink is best planted in an open, sunny spot, away from frost pockets, and they need other apples planted nearby that will aid pollination. If youÃ‚Â’d like to find your tree a partner you can browse ourfull range of apple trees here.

On opening the foliage has a lovely red tinge to it, and with the gorgeous crimson blossom they are a wonderful addition to the spring garden, and the bees love them!

They look fantastic as a specimen in a lawn, worked into an informal or cottage garden planting scheme or trained against a sunny wall. Their fruits are also highly ornamental, bringing colour to the garden through autumn.

Look out for: Tickled Pink is surprisingly tough and disease resistant, and has particularly good resistance to scab.

Malus domestica Tickled Pink Trivia

The 'Redlove' apple was said to be the first red-fleshed apple in the world, bred by the Markus Kobert, a Swiss fruit grower, and was available to buy in 2010.

This caused controversy however when the people of Bakran, a small Iranian village heard the news. They claimed that their area of the Semnan Province had a native apple not only with red flesh, but with red roots, and bark and young leaves too! The apple was said be native to that region has been feeding local communities there for centuries.

How Apple Trees are Measured & Delivered:

Our fruit trees are delivered in up to 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: Discovery trees are partial tip-bearers, so they are still suitable for cordons & espaliers.
Bush: This is a style of freestanding tree with a short trunk of about 60cms. 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.

How to plant Malus domestica Tickled Pink trees:

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

Apple trees like a sunny sheltered site with well drained soil. Dig a hole no deeper than the root ball but around three times the diameter. Dig over the bottom of the hole and add in 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. Heel carefully in to place. Stake in the direction of the prevailing wind.

Keep well watered in dry weather and top dress with a general-purpose fertiliser in spring. Trained apples are pruned in summer, and standards in winter.

Spacing Tickled Pink 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.

Read our full terms and conditions here.

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	Edible Fruit / Nuts
Pollination Group	Pollination Group C
Fruiting	Mid Season Fruiting
Type	Cooking, Eating

	NUMBER OF PLANTS
SIZES	1-2	3-9	10-24	25+
MAIDEN	Plenty of Stock£15.49	Plenty of Stock£14.95	Plenty of Stock£13.95	Plenty of Stock£12.95
BUSH	SOLD OUT FOR THE SEASON £23.95	SOLD OUT FOR THE SEASON £22.95	SOLD OUT FOR THE SEASON £21.95	SOLD OUT FOR THE SEASON £20.95

Tickled Pink Apple Trees

Product Select Size Warning

Availability

Product Multiple Quantity Warning

Minimum Order Quantity