The most popular culinary variety for late autumn picking, and will store until late February with ease. Previously considered too large for the garden, but not so with the new dwarfing rootstocks. Bramley has responded very well to the new rootstocks which make very manageable trees with an increase in fruit size. The large fruits are green to yellow-green and the creamy white flesh is superb for cooking. The trees are vigorous with stout branches, forming a spreading tree. Bramley is a triploid, so two other pollinating varieties are needed, of which the choice is very wide. Ideal pollinators are: Grenadier, Sunset, Cox, Jester, Redsleeves, Spartan, Howgate, Fiesta and Greensleeves. Superb on rootstock M27. All our Bramley Trees are now propagated only from the recently authenticated ‘original’ Bramley for the most genuine trueto-name.
Stock sold for this season, we are recommending Bountiful instead as is the best cooker these days anyway.
We have in place very rigorous standards for the health,
providence and uniformity of all our fruiting plants & trees. Our Nursery and the stock we grow is
inspected and passported for health regularly by DEFRA experts [formerly the Ministry of Agriculture]
and we have in place our own stringent controls and inspection programmes to ensure our fruiting
bushes and trees are the best, most disease free stocks available and truly beyond compare.
We always propagate from certified stock where this exists and have the highest standards regarding providence
and grading. If only the very best will do – as it should – then you can rely on a Chris Bowers fruiting
plant to give the most exemplary results available. We firmly believe that only the very healthiest
stock can and does produce vastly superior results – and it shows.
