Apple tree supplier (Adam's Apples - Talaton Plants)

[marchogaeth]

Sorry folks, bad weather last year and a short summer this year has set me back badly.
You only have to look at how much of Keepers stock is being discounted to see how it's been difficult to produce good quality trees in the East in the last couple of years (long/harsh winters, short/cool/sunless summers).

However, I may well buy-in a few hundred rootstocks this winter which I'll graft.

Not to sound patronising but I love your persistence!

[Sylvan]

I've found Adam's Apples to be very helpful. I've phoned them twice with amendments to my order and they were very nice about it. They also phoned me back within minutes, unlike a lot of firms I've dealt with.

Can't comment on delivery or quality yet but I'll let you know

[Paulieb]

marchogaeth

I won't be running a commercial operation.
As the old saying goes: how do you make a small fortune in agriculture? - Start with a large one.

It'll be small-scale, not-for-profit, as a hobby.

I'm more interested in offering varieties which have special characteristics - such as some of teh following:

Long life expectancy (lifespan of over a hundred years).
Tolerance of soil/climate conditions where other varieties will not grow.
Resilience to recover from massive structural damage after severe weather.
Drought or frost resistance.
Fruit resistant to insect/maggot/wasp damage.
Fruit resistance to bitter pit or other storage disorders.
Resistance to woolly aphid (the scion and the rootstock).
Very early-ripening (July).
Very long storage qualities in very simple conditions (six months in a sack in the shed)

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In other words: the kind of varieties that we all need, but never knew existed because they have fallen out of fashion, in favour of modern, even-sized, round, smooth, shiny, colourful, bred-for-commercial orchards- types of fruits which now fill the supermarket shelves.

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Can you tell us which varieties/roots fit these criteria? Might be useful in my decision for which trees I end up with this autumn/winter.