MALUS domestica 'GRANNY SMITH'

apple Granny Smith

MALUS domestica 'GRANNY SMITH'

apple Granny Smith

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Maintenance advice : At the end of winter, cut off any incumbent branches, to ventilate and maintain a harmonious and balanced form. Shorten any branches too long at a young age and then every 4-5 years to rejuvenate. For trellised forms, in summer, reduce spring shoots by 2/3 in length, leaving 5-6 leaves per branch, and at the end of winter cut down any twigs of more than 15cm long, to just above the third bud from the base.
Botanical/Horticultural origin : Horticultural origin : breeder Mrs. Maria Ann Smith, New South Wales (Autralia) 1868
Use group : Fruit Trees
Height at 10 years : 4 m
Width at 10 years : 3 m
Growth : Fast
Fragrance : No
Exposure : Full sun
Evergreen/Deciduous : Deciduous
Shape : tree like
Colour of leaves : Green
Colour of flowers : White
Soil type : Garden soil
Uses : Fruit tree

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Lovely shiny apples. Lovely crisp and delicious flesh, juicy, slightly sweet and tangy. Harvesting is in November and the apples will keep a long time, often up to April. The flesh will not easily oxidize (turn a rusty colour), staying a pale greeny-white in salads. Lovely bunches of pinkish-white flowers in April. It will form, naturally, a lovely, vigorous and erect tree with drooping branches, and produce a lot of apples every year, without need of any pruning.