Apple
Apple 'Golden Delicious'
Common Name: Apple
Genus: Apple
Cultivar: 'Golden Delicious'
Category: Fruit & Vegetables
Height: 1.80 m (180 cm)
Spread: 1.80 m (180 cm)
- Position: full sun
- Soil: fertile well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: average
- Ultimate size (M27): 1.8x1.8m (6x6ft)
- Ultimate size (MM106): 5.5x5.5m (18x18ft)
- Flowering period: April and May
- Flower colour: white
- Other features: large sweet golden-yellow dessert apples (mid-September)
- Hardiness: fully hardy
- Pollination Group D: late flowering
This upright spreading tree is covered in pure white cup-shaped flowers in mid- and late spring followed by large sweet golden-yellow dessert apples for harvesting from mid-September. A heavy cropping variety it's best planted with a variety from the same or preceding pollination group in a sunny well-drained site. - Garden care: Keep the base of the tree weed-free, fertilise at the beginning of each year and water regularly during hot dry spells. Remove damaged or crossing branches during the dormant season.
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