Crawley Beauty Apple tree
Owner: Rachel
Location: Downham Market, NORFOLK, United Kingdom
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| Age: | Planted in about |
| Soil: | sandy acid soil |
| Climate at this location: | very dry |
| Pruning: | lightly pruned |
| Tree form: | Bush (wider at top than bottom) |
| Height: | Between 6ft / 2m and 15ft / 4m |
| Cropping: | Heavy crops |
| Growth: | This tree grows easily here |
| Herbicides: | Manual treatment (hoeing and weeding) |
| Pesticides: | Un-treated |
| Local pests: | birds, wasps |
Owner's comments
This tree is in the garden of a house dated to 1875 and is very old going by the size and shape. It was identified at Ely Apple fair on 17 October 2009 as being nearest to a Crawley Beauty. It is dual purpose, red striping over a grass green background, very white grainy flesh, very dry on cooking (needs water added or it burns easily), fantastic flavour balance, quite a sharp dessert apple. Some fruits are very large indeed but this tree is currently shaded. 2010 - the shading has all been removed prior to blossom, 7 leylandiis and tree ivys all cleared. will be interesting to see what efect this has on fruit ripening. This tree has three main branches, two of them noted to be hollow near trunk and rotting.Season records for this tree
2011
Spring blossom: 26 April
surrounding area cleared completely by end 2010. two main branches rotting noted2010
Spring blossom: 16 May
(too close) leylandiis felled a week before peak blossom - poor crop this year