Apple Duo Family Tree

A pair of delicious apple varieties grafted onto one apple tree!Apple Duo Family Tree is the perfect option for maximising space. This Duo Apple has been carefully grafted onto a semi-dwarfing MM106 roostock with two popular, reliable varieties selected for their suitability for the UK climate and their excellent flavour. Both have received an RHS Award of Garden Merit. These two varieties will pollinate each other.Apple Duo Family Tree has been grafted onto a dwarf rootstock, making it ideal for growing in a large container on a sunny patio, terrace or courtyard. An additional feature is provided by pinkish-white blossom in spring, making Apple Duo Family Tree a stunning ornamental tree as well. Apple ‘Golden Delicious’ Apple 'Golden Delicious' is a good variety for the warmer parts of the UK, which can be used both as a dessert and cooking apple. This easy-to-grow variety produces reliably heavy crops of yellow-skinned apples. The key is to wait until they turn bright yellow when they develop an exceptional honeyed sweetness and crunchy texture not normally associated with Golden Delicious in the supermarket. The fruit has superb storage ability, lasting through to March in good conditions. RHS Award of Garden Merit.Pollination group: 4.  Partially self-fertile.Harvest: mid-October to mid-NovemberApple ‘Elstar’ Apple ‘Elstar’ is a dessert variety, bearing heavy crops of marbled red apples against a yellow ground. 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’. Its excellent qualities have been recognised with an RHS Award of Garden Merit.Pollination group: 3Partially self-fertileHarvest: September Apple Rootstock:MM106 - Semi-dwarfing rootstock reaching a mature height of up to 4m (13ft). Spread: 2m (6.5ft). Cropping:Estimated time to cropping once planted: 2 yearsEstimated time to best yields: 5 years