Apple ID

[Ani]

I inherited a not too happy apple tree in my new garden. It had a lot of flowers in spring but only five or six apples. It's planted in a mixed shrub border, I can't do much about it, I don't want to move it and I want to keep most of the shrubs. So I am thinking about getting it a pollination partner, maybe it would help it to fruit better. I don't have space for a big tree but I certainly can do something on dwarf rootstock. I also plan to do some mulching/manure/BFB etc. to give it better conditions.

It is pink flowering. Photo from 8th May (viewing of the property). This is the best photo I have, I was trying to photograph the garden, not the tree.


These are after we moved in, end of July.


Apples, the wind 3 days ago torn them off the tree. I think they would need at least a week or two to be fully ripe.


We tried one a week ago (similar ripeness as these) and it was sour, not ripe enough, but not completely bad. It would be ok for cooking.

I guess they could also be some large fruiting crab apple, the previous owner was not to keen on edibles (there are two flowering cherries in the garden and not a single edible plant).

I know I probably don't have enough for an ID. I am hoping for some tips for pollination partners.
This is in North Wales, flowering end of April/1st half of May, ripening late (end of September?).

[Lardman]

Not easy at all. The blossom is in the pink stage and would most likely have been white when the buds opened. They look a little too big for crab apples to me, any red staining in the flesh at all?

Assuming it's a cultivated type and relatively modern I want to say something like red devil fruitID | Apple Identification | Apple Varieties | Apple Cultivars

It's a young, struggling tree with only 3 fruit, you may need to give it a year or 2 of TLC before it can be identified.

[nickdub]

It might be Tydeman's Late Orange, though its hard to be sure - lots of apples around at this time of year which look similar. Cropping is nothing to worry about - its a young tree so you don't want much fruit on it until it gets bigger. Its possible a pollen partner might help but quite likely its being pollinated anyway by trees in nearby gardens.

If you want it to grow faster, best bet would be a top dressing of manure in the Spring.

[Ani]

No red hint, the flesh is completely white (at least not for the one we tried earlier).
I also think they are too big for a crab apple but not really sure. I guess we will see next year, after some TLC.
We have been here for less than two months, I can still go to the garden and find some plant I haven't noticed earlier The previous owner loved gardening and was quite a plant collector (mostly roses and flowers but also shrubs, grasses, bamboo... it looks like he liked a bit of everything).