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Folkestone
A red early season dessert apple.
Origin: Kent UK, 1964
Pollination: Folkestone is self-sterile and would require a pollinator to produce a crop. Pollination partners
British-grown 
All our bare-root trees are personally hand-grafted by our Nursery Manager and grown on at our nursery in Kent. We have Defra and Plant Healthy certification.
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History and description of Folkestone
Folkestone apple was received by the National Fruit Collection, UK in 1964 from Chandler and Dunn, Ash, Kent. Probably a Tydeman’s Early Worcester X. A small to medium sized bright red fruit, firm chewy flesh with a slight flavour of strawberries. A tree of weak vigour.Characteristics of Folkestone apple trees
| Use | Dessert |
| Colour | Red |
| Flavour | Sweet |
| Fruit size | Medium |
| Picking time | Late Aug |
| Season of use | Aug-Sep |
| Tree vigour | Small |
| Tree habit | Upright-spreading |
| Fruit-bearing | Spur-bearer |
| Cropping | |
| Pollination date | 15 |
| Pollination group | D |
| Self-fertility | Self-sterile |
| Pollinators | Pollination partners |
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