Apple Duo Family Tree

Apple Duo Family Tree comprises a pair of delicious apple varieties grafted onto one apple tree! An ideal choice for maximising space, this Duo Apple has been carefully grafted onto a semi-dwarfing MM106 rootstock with two well-loved, reliable varieties selected for their suitability for the UK climate and their superb flavour. These two varieties will pollinate one another and have both been awarded an RHS Award of Garden Merit.Apple Duo Family Tree has been grafted onto a dwarf rootstock, making it perfect for growing in a large container on a sunny terrace, courtyard or patio. The pink-white blossom in spring makes this tree a magnificent ornamental tree too.Apple ?Golden Delicious?Well-suited to warmer parts of the UK and can be used as a dessert and cooking apple. An easy-to-grow variety that boasts bumper crops of yellow-skinned apples. Harvest once they turn bright yellow, as this is when they develop an exceptional honeyed sweetness and crunchy texture not normally associated with Golden Delicious in the supermarket. The fruit has excellent storage ability, lasting through to March if stored appropriately.Partially self-fertile.Apple ?Elstar?A dessert variety boasting bumper crops of marbled red and yellow apples. The result of a cross between 'Ingrid Marie' and 'Golden Delicious', ?Elstar? combines the very best qualities of both varieties. ?Elstar? has the honeyed sweetness and crunchy texture of ?Golden Delicious? but balanced by more complex flavour notes and acidity from ?Ingrid Marie?, whose own parentage contains the famous ?Cox?s Orange Pippin?.Partially self-fertileApple Rootstock:MM106 - Semi-dwarfing rootstock reaching a mature height of up to 4m (13ft). Spread: 2m (6.5ft).Cropping:Pollination group: 4.Harvest: mid-October to mid-NovemberPollination group: 3Harvest: SeptemberEstimated time to cropping once planted: 2 yearsEstimated time to best yields: 5 years