Red Apples. The best Varieties for Eating and Cooking.  

Red Apple Varieties for growing in the UK.

• Gala Apple - Sometimes known as Royal Gala -  Eat it or cook it, and it is ready from mid to late August!  Dazzling red skin, and a good firm but juicy red apple variety.  
• Pink Lady - is a good all-round apple. Eat it or cook it. It is ready from mid October, and stores well.
• Fuji - Is another good all-rounder that comes off the tree in late October. This red apple stores well - as do most late croppers - and is good to eat straight from the tree, or after a few weeks storing.
• Braeburn - Good old favourite red, with a bright white fleshy interior. Late cropper, and is for eating not cooking.
• Red Delicious. I would not touch the Golden Delicious, but its red cousin is bearable! It is a good eater, and ready from middle of September.
• Kanzi - New variety of which we know nothing!
• Cameo - New variety of which we know nothing! But, said to be large, sweet and late fruiting. It is an American apple!
• Rubens - New variety of which we know nothing!
• Discovery First of the crop in late summer, but is not any good for storing. So, Eat them fresh - straight off the tree.
• Scrumptious.  Lives up to its name. A first class red early dessert apple with flavour bordering on honey. Self fertile, for those worrying about pollinators and copes well with frost.
• Sunrise - A good early red apple with plenty of taste. Looks great on the tree..
• Lord Lambourne - The writer's all time favourite red apple!
• Elstar - A good sweet fruity red apple - late - that also keeps well.
• Blenheim Orange Can cook or eat. It has been around a long time, but is still rightfully popular. I would always have room for this red apple.
• Rubens - Dry flavour which has been compared to bananas! Its texture is also a little on the soft side as well, but worth a try.
• Red Windsor
• Spartan They don't come much redder than Spartan! early early type which can/should be eaten straight off the tree. DON'T tery to store it - it doesn't like it!
• Tydeman's Late Orange
  A popular Cox-style apple, with a later season and sharper flavour.
• Cox's Orange Pippin - We will include the Cox, because with the right late summer conditions it can turn quite a rosy red.