Howgate Wonder (Malus domestica 'Howgate Wonder') is the result of crossing the apple varieties Blenheim Orange x Newton Wonder.  First appearing on the Isle of Wight in 1915, it is a large, yellow coloured apple with red stripes.  Howgate Wonder is an excellent cooking variety and maintains its shape well when cooked and has a very light taste.  A dual purpose apple, Howgate Wonder is also a quite sweet and juicy apple.   It has the distinction of often holding the biggest apple in the world" award.

Month of Picking: October

Type of Apple: Eating/CookingSelf-fertile/Not self-fertile: This apple is not self-fertile and requires another apple to act as a pollination partner. 

This apple is in flowering period is C3. 

How to chose a suitable pollination partner.  

To make it easy to match this apple with a suitable pollination partner(s) we have used a series of codes, which are C1, C2, C3, C4 and C5 and relate to flowering periods.  Every apple variety we sell will have one of these codes. 

The code we have given this apple tree means that you need to find another apple with the same code or one less or one more, so for example if the apple is code C3, then another apple variety with code C2 or C4 would be necessary to act as a reliable pollination partner.

This variety of apple tree is supplied in a 12 litre container, which means that the tree can be planted any time of the year and with better results than either bare-root or rootballed trees.

This apple is available on the following rootstock:

MM106, supplied at a height of between 1.25 metres and 1.50 metres and the tree will reach an approximate height of 3.6 metres