Peggys Pride

Accession no. YPC.2018.13. Planted Dec 2018

Malus domestica. Mid, Dessert. Origin Oxon. c.1943

Sponsored by David & Fiona Brimson

Four yellow apples with reddish speckles and blemishes on a dark background.

Peggy’s Pride was named after the wife of F.W. Wastie who was an apple breeder in Eynsham, Oxfordshire. Wastie raised this variety by crossing Allington Pippin with Golden Spire in 1922 and it was first recorded when received by the National Fruit Trials in 1943.



Peggy’s Pride is a dessert apple. The tree is moderately vigorous, self-sterile and requires pollinator partners from Group 3. The apples can be harvested in September and will keep until November.


The apples are small to medium size and the pale, golden skin is flushed with red on the sun exposed face. The flesh is crisp, sweet and juicy.