I’ve used the photos I took at the Holyrood Apple day to make an identification chart which you can find here. As most of these apples were grown in Scotland, this might prove a useful resource for identifying some of the apples we pick in gardens in Edinburgh. Still, it’s easier said than done…
Your pictures are very helpful-labels and records are often lost years after planting apple trees.
Seeing the top and bottom of a fruit helps to identify even more closely. So often fruit trees are wrongly named from source and that can be perpetuated. Great to see all those old varieties -really encouraging.
I’m in Dorset but good luck with project
Thank you
these are very helpful photos, though whatever happened to the Golden Hornet? A taste guide might also be useful, do you know of one at all?
I was at the Apple Day event at Bridgend, good to see so many apples and to watch the juicing….