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Dumelow's Seedling Apple tree

Owner: Andy

Location:  Burton On Trent, STAFFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom

Age:Planted in about 2010
Age of this tree:17 years
Soil:clay 
Climate at this location:mild wet winters, warm showery summers
Pruning:yes
Tree form:Central leader (widest at bottom)
Height:Between 6ft / 2m and 15ft / 4m
Cropping:Not specified
Growth:This tree grows easily here
Herbicides:Manual treatment (hoeing and weeding)
Pesticides:Un-treated

Owner's comments

My son also has one of these planted in a large pot this year. My daughter is a landscape architect and has managed to place several specimens in new developments where local species have been specified (we are less than 15 miles from Shackerstone where it was first grown.