These are BARE ROOTED plants which can be planted from the end of October until May and will be dispatched as soon as the weather turns cold and they become dormant.The dispatch date depends on the Autumn temperature and varies from year to year. Bramley's Seedling more commonly referred to simply as Bramley is undoubtedly the classic English cooking apple. Growing Details Common Name: Apple Genus: Malus Species: domestica Cultivar: 'Bramley's Seedling' Skill Level: Beginner Exposure: Full sun Hardiness: Hardy Soil type: Well-drained/light, Clay/heavy, Acidic, Chalky/alkaline Height: 300cm Spread: 200cm Description Bramley apple trees are large, vigorous, spreading and long-lived. It tolerates some shade. The apples are very large, two or three times the weight of a typical dessert apple like a Granny Smith. They are flat with a vivid green skin which becomes red on the side which receives direct sunlight.The tree is scab and mildew resistant and does best when grown as a standard in somewhat heavy clay soil.Heavy and regular bearer. Triploid. and needs two other varieties of apple for pollination. Polliniation: It is a triploid and needs 2 pollination partners nearby: Beauty of Bath, Braeburn, Bountiful, Charless Ross, Cornish Aromatic, Discovery, Egremont Russet, Elstar, Fiesta, Gala, Golden delicious, Granny Smith, Greensleeves, Grenadier, Howgate Wonder, Idared, James Grieve, Katy, Laxton's Superb,Lord Lambourne, Malus Evereste, Pitmaston Pineapple, Red Devil, Spartan, Tydeman's Late Orange, Worcester Pearmain