Apr 11, 2025
Plant of the Day
Saturday 12 April 2025
Soon this beautifully fan trained Malus domestica 'Laxton's Fortune' (apple) will be covered in pale pink flowers. This dessert apple was developed by the Laxton Brothers Nursery, Bedford, UK, and released in 1904. It has been described as a useful substitute for Malus ‘Cox's Orange Pippin’ (one of its parents), having some of that aromatic flavour and being but much easier to grow. This variety will even set a light crops even if there are no pollination partners nearby, but cropping will be better with another variety to cross-pollinate the blossom.
Jill Raggett
