Welsh Eating Apples / Afalau Bwyta Cymreig

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Bakers Delicious Baker's Delicious Very early eater found by chance in a south Wales hedgerow.  Beautiful eating apple with rich sweet flavour especially for an early eater. Acidic with cream coloured flesh. £26.50
  bardsey_bareroot Bardsey (Bare Root) A very hardy, pleasant eating apple from the “Sainted Isle” of Bardsey where it was discovered growing against a farmhouse wall by Mr Ian Sturrock.  Mid early season versatile making a good juice and cider!   Pick in August - early September, eat off the tree!  (Pollination Group 2)

£28.00
  Bardsey_Island_Apple Bardsey 3Ltr. Container A very hardy, pleasant eating apple from the “Sainted Isle” of Bardsay where it was discovered growing against a farmhouse wall by Mr Ian Sturrock.  Mid early season versatile making a good juice and cider! Crops from mid August - September. Eat of the tree! £21.50
Brith Mawr Mid-season versatile apple (Big and Spotty), sharp eater from Newport, South Wales, can also be juiced and cooks to a puree. Large fruit with red patches. Prolific cropper. Harvest in September.  Pollination group 3 £26.50
  Pren Glas Brookes A sweet and aromatic, late dessert apple from the Shropshire borders with Wales. Very good keeper slight russet and reminiscent of Ashmeads Kernal. This is a rare variety but well worth growing. It has a compact form and quite slow growing. £26.50
Channel-Beauty Channel Beauty Mid season eater. Cox seedling from Swansea South Wales. Heavy cropping late desert apple. Raised by C.H.Evans, Mumbles & included in the National Fruit Collection in 1922. Known locally as "Gower/Gwyr"  Some similarity to golden delicious in form and texture but much more tasty! The picture doesn't do it justice I will find a better one soon!     £26.50
  Cissy Second early eater from Malpas, Monmouthshire. Very good heritage dessert apple raised in the 1790s, fruiting in September. Firm, rich, scented flesh. Also known as Monmouthshire Beauty.   £26.50
Kenneth aka Rhyl Beauty Kenneth / Rhyl Beauty Grown by Kenneth McCreadie in Rhyl, North Wales in the 1920s. Dessert apple. The original apple tree and location seem to have been lost. He originally called it Kenneth, which probably accounted for its lack of marketing success! Very likely has cox parentage. £26.50
Machen Machen Second early eater with red skin from the Chepstow area. Dual purpose as it has a good culinary flavour improving as a juicy dessert apple with keeping. (Pollination Group B). £26.50
Morgan Sweet Morgan Sweet Lots of older customers remember eating this as a child in South Wales. (Eater and cider apple 1800's South Wales)  Unusually sweet and low in tannins this prolific cropper has large yellow fruit and strong upright growth. Biennial cropping tendency.  Used as an eater but also to blend and sweeten cider with other cider varieties. (Triploid) (Pollination Group B) £26.50
Pig Aderyn (Birds beak) This mid-season general-purpose variety makes a tasty, light cider. Distinctive fruit, upper part like a "birds beak" hence its Welsh name. Striped red/green fruit is still found growing at the abbey in St. Dogmaels near Carmarthen. It has been written that the Monks of St. Dogmaels had to be admonished by the Bishop of St. David's for their drunkenness, presumable from drinking too much cider! (Pollination group B)
 
£26.50
Pren Glas Pren Glas An early to mid-season eating apple from St. Dogmaels, Cardiganshire. As an eater it doesn't keep and best eaten fresh off the tree. Thought to have been a variety found in the Abbey at St. Dogmaels this is fairly sharp early to a mid-season eater that can be used for cooking, juice or cider. (Pollination group B) £21.50
  St_Cecelia St. Cecilia Named after the Welsh patron saint of music this is a mid-season eating apple from Bassaleg, Newport.   Reportedly first cultivated by John Basham & Sons of Bassaleg in Monmouthshire in 1900 from a Cox seedling. A sweet juicy apple with an exquisite perfumed aroma is said to be at its best on St. Cecilia’s day (November 22nd).  (Pollination group B)   £21.50
Talgarth / Welsh Pitcher Talgarth / Welsh Pitcher. Rarely found but hardy early Welsh native eating apple with light yellow flesh and a crisp bite.  Originally from the village of Talgarth in Powys. Also known as Welsh Pitcher. £26.50