Peter’s Gold™

Apple

From £25.00

Golden apples with occasional pink flush. Flesh is firm, sweet and dense with a good crunch. Read more

Attributes

  • Storing: February
  • Pollination group 3
  • Uses: Eating
  • J Uses: Juice
  • Picking month: Early October
  • Any UK district

Container Options

Rootstock
Size Form Availability Price
Rootstock MM106 Size 12L container Form Bush Available From Aug - June £55.00

Bare root Options

Rootstock
Size Form Availability Price
Rootstock
Size Form Availability Price
Rootstock MM106 Size 1 year Form Maiden Available From Nov - Mar £25.00
Rootstock M26 Size 1 year Form Maiden Available From Nov - Mar £25.00
Full Description

Description: Peter's Gold™ is an excellent late keeping dessert. Picking in late October/early November with good vigour, profuse flowering and consistent crops of perfectly round golden apples with an occasional attractive pink flush. Natural storage will extend eating well into the new year. The mid season, large, attractive pink to white flowers have a degree of frost resistance and with good spur bearing properties the tree is very easy to prune and shape. Flesh is firm, sweet and dense with a good crunch typical of a Braeburn and the complex flavour offers the aromatics of a Cox’s Orange Pippin with a slight citrus background for good measure.

History: This superb apple was raised in Essex by Peter Seabrook who passed away in 2022. Many will know him as the ‘original gardening superhero’. Peter worked tirelessly on behalf of the gardening public all his life and was a wonderful broadcaster and journalist. Latterly he set up Floral Fantasia at RHS Garden Hyde Hall as a display and trials area to inspire gardeners and as a facility for training and education.

This continues in his memory, courtesy of the RHS. A donation from the sale of each tree will go to the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation.

Some FAQs

Tree Care

Your tree will have been pruned prior to despatch so there should be no need to prune straight away. The only exception is a bare root maiden which will not have been pruned. Some varieties will benefit from being pruned later – please see the variety specific information.

We would advise watering your tree when planting and then regularly during the first summer in the ground. Thereafter the level of watering will depend on the soil and weather conditions. It is best to not let young trees dry out.

A free booklet with simple instructions will be included with your order.

You can find more information in the ‘Advice’ section of our website. Click here for ‘How to Plant a Container Tree’ and here for ‘How to Plant a Bare Root Tree’.

Trees should always be planted as soon as possible. The only exception would be bare root trees if the soil is very frozen or waterlogged, in which case heel the trees in until the ground is ready. Bare root trees must be planted before new growth appears in spring, this is usually in March.

If your tree is to be kept in a container, then we’d advise repotting into a larger container as soon as possible. Please check to see whether the tree is suitable for a pot before purchasing.

Discounts

If you have a coupon code for a discount off your order, this can be entered on your basket page. Please note only one coupon code can be used per order.

We currently offer 10% off all orders for active Military personnel and veterans.

Email with proof of service to sales@fpmatthews.co.uk. We will then send you a coupon code which can be used for 10% off your total.

Please note this cannot be used in conjunction with other discounts.

Delivery

Yes, you can collect the trees from the nursery. Please select the ‘Collect’ option when placing the order. We will email you as soon as your order is ready for collection, we will then need at least two working days to prepare your order.

The delivery charge is calculated according to the number of boxes needed to send the trees. One container grown tree will need one box; bare root trees vary but we can usually get about four – six in a box. The total delivery cost will be shown when you place the order.

We deliver to Great Britain, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. We don’t currently deliver to Northern and Southern Ireland.

We will notify you by email when your order has been despatched. It will usually be delivered within three days from notification.

Our large box is 2m tall and 30cm square. All products can be sent in the size.

Our medium box is 1.5m tall and 30cm square. This is only available for small or patio grown trees and 1 year maiden bare root trees.

Selecting the large box size may reduce the necessity for pruning on selected varieties. Any required pruning is conducted by our tree experts and will not have a detrimental effect on the tree.

We are unable to offer a scheduled delivery service as we cannot guarantee an exact delivery date. We can aim for a specific week if you let us know.

Our courier company will leave the package in the safest place if there is no one there, so there is no need to sign for the delivery.

Container grown trees are available from August – May and bare root trees are available from November – March. We always aim to deliver your order as soon as every item is ready for despatch.

If the whole order is ready when purchased, it usually takes between 5 and 10 working days to arrive.

See below for a guide on when bare root trees are usually ready for despatch.

Early November – Two year old plums, cherries, apples and then pears.
Late November – One year maiden plums, cherries, apples and then pears.
Late November/Early December – Ornamental prunus, sorbus, thorns, malus and then pyrus. 

This is an estimate as the lifting of bare root trees is very weather dependent.

Returns

If you are unhappy with your tree when it arrives, please email sales@fpmatthews.co.uk within five working days and we will get back to you as soon as possible.