This red striped apple with yellow/green background is very popular in the UK, it’s easy to grow and also handles well. Very crisp, sweet and juicy, with a slight tartness.

Available year round:

Northern Hemisphere: September - June

Best to eat: November - March

Southern Hemisphere: May - October

Best to eat: June - August

Distinctive deep red apple with light green background. It’s particularly popular with kids due to its “eat me” like appearance. It has a very sweet taste similar at times to pineapple.

Availability:

Northern Hemisphere: October - June

Best to eat: December - April

Perhaps Australia’s most famous export (even before Fosters) this apple has a very hardy, thick, crisp skin, with a mild tart taste and is excellent for cooking.

Available year round:

Northern Hemisphere: October - June

Best to eat: November - February

Southern Hemisphere: May - October

Best to eat: June - August

A widely grown red striped apple with pale green background. Known for its aromatic sweet taste, this is an easy eating apple.

Available year round:

Northern Hemisphere: Aug - April

Best to eat: October - February

Southern Hemisphere: March - September

Best to eat: May - July

This apple has possibly the best taste of any dessert apple, however it is notoriously difficult to grow and also has poor storage qualities. Its unique taste when caught at the right times has hints of pear, orange, melon - just an array of flavour.

Availability:

Northern Hemisphere: September - April

Best to eat: November - December

Southern Hemisphere: April - June

Best to eat: April - May

So easily recognisable due to its bold large, non-uniformed shape with a bright green appearance. The perfect cooking apple, which, when cooked, becomes light and fluffy. Is ideal for pies, tarts chutneys and many more uses.

Available year round:

Northern Hemisphere: All year

Best to eat: All year

The first apple to ever be trademarked, an extremely appealing bi-coloured apple with pink crisp thin skin. Has a sweet almost tart taste and is often described as having a fizz!

Available year round:

Northern Hemisphere: November - June

Best to eat: December - March

Southern Hemisphere: June - October

Best to eat: July - September

An old classic and still a prominent apple in the UK due to its storing qualities. When caught at optimum times it has a refreshing, crisp almost caramel sweetness that’s hard to beat.

Available year round:

Northern Hemisphere: August - July

Best to eat: Oct - Feb

Southern Hemisphere: April - July

Best to eat: May - June

This striking Red apple has a deep Ruby coloured skin and a distinctive elongated shape and is a widely grown apple. It has a very complex and varied array of flavour, its sweet and juicy

with a thick, sharp tasting skin. Red delicious is

more of an historic variety but its popularity

seems to be returning.

Available year round:

Northern Hemisphere: September - March

Best to eat: November - February

Southern Hemisphere: February - December

Best to eat: March - July

A block red high coloured apple. As the colour suggests, the fruit has a “deep” flavour with a wonderful sweetness combined with a crisp, clean bite. Its striking colour should help with its

quest for popularity in the UK apple market.

Availability:

Northern Hemisphere: November - February

Perhaps truly the new kid on the block, with very little tonnage available. There is a lot expected of this apple, with its yellow appearance and slight blush, combined with its firm

texture and intense strawberry like sweetness,

it’s a break from the more common bi-coloured

varieties.

Availability:

Northern Hemisphere: September - December

The most popular of pear varieties. With an easily recognisable elongated shape and deep green colour. It has a wonderful, light, sweet and juicy taste.

Available year round:

Northern Hemisphere

Best to eat: December - May

The perfect pear for Christmas day. It has a large, round, almost dumpy shape. The skin can be green or yellow/brown often with a red blush. It has a creamy white texture and is far less

gritty than some pear varieties. A superb

caramel-sweet, juicy bite.

Availability:

Northern Hemisphere: September - April

Best to eat: November - January

Southern Hemisphere: April - August

Best to eat: May - June

Perhaps not the most aesthetically perfect pear, with a green bumpy skin that turns yellow upon ripening. The taste however far outweighs the slightly odd look, as it has a succulent

and rich flavour. The fruit is best when ripened, which

may take between 3 and 7 days at room temperature.

Availability:

Southern Hemisphere: May - June

A native Portuguese pear. It is usually a yellow colour with a bright white flesh. It’s a firm crunchy refreshingly juicy and sweet bite.

Availability:

Northern Hemisphere: September - May

Best to eat: December - March

Gaining popularity in the UK marketplace, this striking looking pear with a cinnamon/gold smooth russeted skin has a delicately perfumed, creamy, juicy and tender bite with a rich,

sweet flavour.

Availability:

Southern Hemisphere: May - August

Best to eat: June - July

The most commonly grown variety of pear. It is common in UK supermarkets in cans as well as fresh. A green elongated pear with a smooth green skin which turns yellow when ripe and ready.

It’s seen by some as the “definitive” pear taste and

it’s wonderfully sweet, juicy and aromatic.

Availability:

Northern Hemisphere: August - February

Best to eat: September - December

Southern Hemisphere: February - June

Best to eat: April - May

One of the most striking looking pear varieties. It has a beautiful bell shape and freckled green skin with a deep red blush. Yet another pear thats green colour turns yellow when ripe. Sometimes

the taste can range from quite bland to extremely

sweet, certainly an acquired, almost perfumed taste.

Availability:

Southern Hemisphere: May - October

Best to eat: June - August