Widely grown in Scotland with unknown origins, though some think it may originate in Clydesdale. 

It is ready early to mid August with large cooking apples with a sharp flavour. 

It has lovely pink blossoms in spring.

The Red Devil is a red fleshed eating apple, with the bright red skin colour bleeding into the white flesh and pinkish red stain and has a sweet strawberry-like flavour. 

Apple Red Devil originates from Kent in 1975 and is self fertile, which means it doesn't need another apple tree to pollinate it and is ideal for smaller gardens. The fruit is ripe for picking in October.

Widely grown in Scotland and Lancashire in the 1900s. this is a very good cooking apple for northern gardens.

Very hardy, and produces heavy crops of conical yellow-green fruit which are often prominently ribbed, Britchetts were know to have been grown in the Lyth valley, Cumbria as far back as the 1780s.

The fruit is of rich sub-acid flavour, and keeps it shape when cooked.

The Victoria plum is a type of English plum.

It has a yellow flesh with a red or mottled skin. The name "Victoria" comes from Queen Victoria (1819–1901). Though there are a number of alternative suggestions to explain the true origin of the variety.

It was introduced commercially in Sweden in 1844 by a nursery owner, Denyer, under the name of Denyer's Victoria. This strain quickly became very popular in Sweden in the late 19th century.

This is a medium-sized pear with an elongated bottle shape which is ready in mid Autumn 

This variety of pear was developed in Britain by Thomas Francis Rivers from his Rivers Nursery in Hertfordshire. It was named after it won first prize at the National British Pear Conference in London in 1885.

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These pears stay hard and need to be ripened at home.

The fruit is medium-sized to large, oval, and ripens to bright yellow sometimes known as a 'Yellow Egg' plum.

It is often overlooked as a harvesting tree due to their lack if fresh eating however the fruit is excellent for preserving.

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It is a traditional cooking plum from the Vale of Evesham in the West Midlands and is great for baking and jams.

New to the Orchard in 2025 this is a native deciduous English hazelnut that is quick and easy to grow and readily produces a reliable harvest of large clusters of tasty nuts.

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The nuts have a gorgeous sweet flavour whether eaten green or allowed to ripen.

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(Similar to the Kentish Cobb)

This is a popular French dessert pear dating back to the early 19th century.

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The flowers are small single and white and appear early in the spring. The foliage follows the flower display, with glossy, bright green leaves that turn a glorious red in autumn.

They have light green, brown russet fruit have and are great straight off the tree and in a pudding.

New to the Orchard in 2025 this is a ancient fruit is disadvantaged by it's less that pretty appearance and often rots before it's harvested.

However this is a hugely versatile fruit historically made into jelly, jam and marmalade and often syrup, vinegar, wine, brandy, and cider.

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This fruit has diminished in popularity since medieval times, it is easy to grow, hardy and a welcome home within Riverside's Orchard.

This is a russet apple which seasons slight earlier than the more well known Egremont Russet and does not keep as well, however this is made up for in a superior flavour. 

This is an eating apple but is very juicy and used often for cider.

This plum is a speciality of the French region of Lorraine which is identified by its small, oval shape, smooth-textured flesh, and especially by its red, or dark yellow colour which becomes flecked in appearance. 

The Mirabelle reaches maturity and is harvested from July to mid-September. 

This is a rare variety of apple tree and we currently have no further information.

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From a tree near Errol Carse of Gowrie in Perthshire and collected in 1958 and introduced into the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale.

It has an elongated shape, the fruit isn't huge but it crops heavily and thrives in wet, cold areas.

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A popular 19th century apple, very widely grown in Europe at the time, and versatile for cooking and dessert uses. 

It also keeps its shape after cooking.

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This is a popular cider apple, developed in Normandy and brought to England in 1883 (approx). 

It is popular due to having a reliable and plentiful crop.

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The Laxton Brothers Nursery created the 'Fortune' in 1904 from an orange pippin and a Wealthy apple. 

It was release for commercial growing in 1931. 

This is considered a rare apple tree.

It is a deciduous tree that bears hard, aromatic bright golden-yellow pome fruit, similar in appearance to a pear.

Ripe quince fruits are hard, tart, and astringent.

They are seldom eaten raw, but are processed into marmalade, jam, paste (known as quince cheese) or alcoholic beverages.

This Scottish apple has a dark story: A gamekeeper shot dead a ploughman caught stealing apples from the Megginch Estate.

When his body was returned to his wife, she found stolen apples in his pockets and threw them onto a rubbish heap.

One of the resulting seedlings bore apples of a deep, blood red. This tree gave rise to the cultivar that was named after the unfortunate ploughman.

Widely grown in Scotland and considered a modern variety of apple and gets its sweetness from Golden Delicious, Worcester Pearmain and Discovery varieties.  It is a lovely sweet eating apple

This species is an apple cultivar which originated in Boskoop, Netherlands.

It is greenish/grey tinged with red and is both a cooking apple and can be eaten straight from the tree.

Our crab apple grows small fruits in abundance and will make an excellent jelly. 

This tree was kindly donated by Paul Dumbleton, one of Riverside Naturally's founding trustees.

A new addition to the orchard this large tree will shelter the orchard for many years to come. They tend to have a short trunk with a broad crown. The flowers are pollinated by wind and develop into a fruit with a green, fleshy husk and a brown, wrinkled walnut.

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The Romans associated certain trees with their gods and, in this case, the mighty walnut tree was linked to Jupiter, the king of the gods.