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Beverley Pippin Apple tree

Owner: Geoff

Location:  Beverley, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom

Age:Planted in about 1970
Age of this tree:56 years
Rootstock:N/K
Blossom:May
Picking:Aug-Sept
Soil:Good loam. pH 7 
Climate at this location:Coastal locality ameliorates most bad winters but eastern side of country is drier.
Pruning:Yes
Tree form:Central leader (widest at bottom)
Height:Taller than 15ft / 4m
Cropping:Biennial cropping (alternate years)
Growth:This tree grows easily here
Herbicides:Manual treatment (hoeing and weeding)
Pesticides:Chemical treatments
Local pests:Woolly aphid

Owner's comments

Grown from a Christmas time apple pip about 40 years ago and grafted onto unknown rootstock by local nurseryman. An eating apple which is slow to discolour when peeled. Extremely good flavour and very juicy. This has now been further propagated by The Northern Fruit Group and the East Riding of Yorkshire C.C. who have planted specimens in their Millennium Orchard. Grafted specimens have been sold at £10 during the October Apple Day at the Millennium Orchard in Beverley. Grafting stocks have now been sent to the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale in Kent.

Season records for this tree

  • 2014

    Spring blossom: 2 May
    Harvest: 3rd week August
  • 2010

    Spring blossom: 12 May
    Harvest: 1st week September
    Everything is later and smaller than normal due to weather patterns this year.

Beverley Pippin

Beverley Pippin

Copyright: G. Gooding

Uploaded: 19 Sep 2010

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Beverley Pippin

Beverley Pippin

Copyright: G. Gooding

Uploaded: 19 Sep 2010

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