Apple Varieties & Pollination Guide

An apple varieties and pollination guide: the RHS flowering groups 1–7 made simple, how partner trees work, triploids explained, a partner-finder worksheet with answers, and 15 variety cards with each apple’s story, flowering group and its blossom and picking dates from the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale.

What’s inside:

- Flowering groups 1–7 made simple: 53 varieties from the RHS pollination chart

- How apple partners work

- Triploids explained, and pairs that won’t pollinate each other

- Partner finder worksheet (5 questions)

- 15 variety cards: ‘Egremont Russet’, ‘Lord Lambourne’, ‘Ribston Pippin’, ‘Bramley’s Seedling’, ‘Blenheim Orange’, ‘Cox’s Orange Pippin’, ‘Discovery’, ‘Granny Smith’, ‘James Grieve’, ‘Katja’, ‘Spartan’, ‘Sunset’, ‘Worcester Pearmain’, ‘Ellison’s Orange’, ‘Golden Delicious’

- Blossom timeline for all 15 varieties

- My apple wishlist

- Answer key

- Credits, licence & sources

Pages: 14 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink.

Every fact is checked against Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), National Fruit Collection, Encyclopaedia Britannica, National Trust and Common Ground web pages (checked 31 Oct 2026) and the sources are listed on each pack’s credits page. Blossom and picking dates are the National Fruit Collection’s records at Brogdale in Kent; facts that can change are printed with their date. Paintings are public-domain images from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection, via Wikimedia Commons. Drawings, puzzles and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work. Not endorsed by the RHS, the National Fruit Collection, the USDA, the National Trust or Common Ground.

Licence: personal and single-classroom use. You may print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own class, and share it with your class through a password-protected platform. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For school-wide use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind apples.fruits.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.