James Grieve Apple Back To List Apple Description: James Grieve is a well known, well flavoured early dessert apple. Red flush stripes over pale green with a creamy white, juicy, rather soft flesh. Excellent refreshing flavour and a reliable cropper. A deservedly popular apple which is grown commercially in the UK, usually as a pollinator for Cox. Can be used for eating, juicing and cooking, keeps its shape when cooked and is known to be one of the best apples to accompany a cheese board! History: Raised by James Grieve in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is said to be seedling from Potts' Seedling. First recorded in 1893 and was introduced by his employers, Dicksons Nurserymen. Received Award of Merit from Royal Horticultural Society in 1897 and First Class Certificate in 1906. Attributes Uses: Cooking Pollination group: Pollination group 3 Storing: October Picking month: September Self-fertility: Self-fertile Container Uses: EatingJ Suitable for juicing Any UK district Back To List Find a local stockist by selecting your county: Select a CountyAberdeenshireAngusArgyllshireAvonAyrshireBedfordshireBerkshireBristolBuckinghamshireCambridgeshireCardiffCarmarthenshireCeredigionChannel IslandsCheshireClwydCo. AntrimCo. DownCo. WestmeathConwyCornwallCumbriaDenbighshireDerbyshireDevonDorsetDublinDumfriesshireDunbartonshireDurhamEast LothianEast SussexEssexFifeGlamorganGloucestershireGwentGwyneddHampshireHerefordshireHertfordshireHumbersideInverness-shireIsle of ManKentLanarkshireLancashireLeicestershireLincolnshireLondonLondonderryManchesterMerionethMerseysideMid GlamorganMiddlesexMidlothianMonmouthshireMontgomeryshireMorayshireNorfolkNorth YorkshireNorthamptonshireNorthumberlandNottinghamshireOxfordshirePembrokeshirePerthshirePowysRenfrewshireRoxburghshireRutlandShropshireSomersetSouth YorkshireStaffordshireStirlingshireSuffolkSurreyTaysideTyne and WearWarwickshireWest GlamorganWest LothianWest MidlandsWest SussexWest YorkshireWigtownshireWiltshireWorcestershireYorkshire Search Discover these similar varieties… Paradice Gold™ Apple Chosen by the London Paralympic Legacy for the Olympic Park. Superb flavour, sweet and crisp texture. Full Details Spartan Apple A very popular eating variety with bright red fruit. Crisp, juicy and sweet. Good for small gardens. Full Details Adam’s Pearmain Apple A distinctive late eating apple with attractive lenticel spots, red-brown skin and a rich, aromatic, nutty flavour. Full Details Isaac Newton Apple The ‘Flower of Kent’. Cooks to a sweet, delicate flavoured puree. Very interesting historical background. Full Details
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