One of our oldest and best cooking apples. The main drawback to this tree is its size, it is too big for most small urban gardens and it doesn't do well on dwarfing rootstocks. If you do have the space though it is well worth growing. A mature tree will keep you and your family and neighbours in cooking apples most of the year as, stored properly, the fruit keeps well.

A very vigorous grower, it requires regular pruning to keep it to a manageable size and will require another apple tree somewhere in the vicinity, (not necessarily your own garden!) as it is self sterile ( a triploid variety). The pollinator will also need another apple to pollinate it unless it is self fertile as Bramleys, being triploid, are poor pollinators themselves.

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