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. Elstar is a successful offspring of Golden Delicious, developed in the Netherlands in the 1950s.This easy-eating dessert apple has a distinctive colour of golden yellow but overlaid with deep red. Growing Details: Common Name: Apple Genus: Malus Species: domestica Cultivar: 'Elstar' Skill Level: Beginner Exposure: Full sun Hardiness: Hardy Soil type: Well-drained/light, Clay/heavy, Acidic, Chalky/alkaline Description: Elstar is definitely a crunchy apple, but not as crisp or hard as some - definitely the softer side of crunchy. The flesh is lemon-white.The trees will grow in a wide variety of soil types, but prefers full sun.It is cropped between October and January.The tree is self sterile so it needs to be planted with other varieties. Pollination: It is not self-fertile and needs a pollination partner: Beauty of Bath, Braeburn, Charles Ross, Cornish Aromatic, Discovery, Egremont Russet, Ellison's Orange, Granny Smith, Grenadier, Howgate Wonder, Idared, Irish Peach, James Grieve, Katy, Laxton's Superb, Lord Lambourne, Malus Evereste, Malus John Downie, Pitmaston Pine Apple, Red Devil, Reverend W. Wilks, Spartan, Worcester Pearmain