Apple Pollination Table

In general, apple trees need a different variety to act as a pollinator so you will get a good crop of apples. A suitable pollinator can be a few hundred metres away and still be effective, and crab apples make excellent pollinators. There are some partly self fertile varieties which will give a reasonable crop without a pollinator, choose these if you only have room for one apple tree in your garden

Apples are placed in groups according to the time of year they flower. Most apples will pollinate one another if they are in the same group or an adjacent group e.g a group 2 variety can be pollinated by an apple from group 1, 2 or 3, but not an apple from group 4. A few varieties, known as 'triploid' varieties are no good as pollinators to other apples

SF = Partly self fertile

T =  Triploid - will not pollinate other apples, needs a pollinator