Welcome to Orange Pippin

If you are interested in apple varieties, pears, cherries or plums, or orchards where these fruits are grown, you have come to the right place.

Our website is named after England's most famous apple variety - Cox's Orange Pippin - widely regarded as the finest of all dessert apples. 'Pippin' is an old English word derived from the French word for 'seedling', and like many old apple varieties Cox's Orange Pippin was discovered as a chance seedling.

Recent variety reviews

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• Apple - Allington Pippin

  07 Sep 2025  Belinda Copson, HITCHIN

  I have an old Allington Pippin in the garden of my 1930s house, the tree is thought to be at least 80 years old. Still fruiting well, and adjacent to a Charles Ross (a cross-pollinator). Fruits are lovely to cook with and tend to keep fairly well.

• Apple - Newton Wonder

  04 Sep 2025  Patrick Walsh, DUNLAVIN, WICKLOW

  Upgrading previous review as with the trees twelve years old now and better able to compare to other varieties: Consistently crops heavily. Large healthy fruit. Apparently bullet proof disease resistance (never requires anything like care)

• Apple - Katy

  31 Aug 2025  Clive Dale, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ?

  Katy is a wonderful eating apple. We picked that tree after sampling a range of different eating apples at St Fagans Welsh Folk Museum at a special food week.

• Gage - Old Green Gage

  29 Aug 2025  Parker, OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON

  This review is of a fruit picked from a tree that was sold as "Green Gage" from a wholesale nursery. I can only assume it is the "standard Green Gage" variety in the U.S. And keep in mind the fruit was picked from a very young tree, so it's likely the fruit quality may improve when the tree matures in the future. Smelling the skin, it has some exquisite plum aroma, moderately better than a supermarket plum. strong flavor of pluot and a little bit of nectarine. very slight grass flavor. in addition to that, there's something very "green" about the aroma (maybe with some similarity to Japanese ume plum). maybe just the tiniest bit of green wine grape flavor. I'd have to rate this somewhere between 84 and 94 out of 100. It's quite good and has some very unique "green plum" flavor, though that flavor could possibly be just a bit overwhelming if I had too many of these, and there's just a tiny hint of the intensity of nail polish remover mixed with freshly mown grass, kind of scrumptious and rich. The green flavor is a little more intense, and slightly harsher, than the Reine Claude Doree variety of Green Gage.

• Apple - Red Delicious

  28 Aug 2025  40Rounds, VALLEY SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA

  I know there are a lot of haters but my red delicious is my best producer and most bug resilient tree. They are fine eating fresh as they have a very short edible life span. I'm a minority, but I love them fresh off the tree

Latest harvest records from registered fruit trees

• 2nd week September 2025  Catshead owned by Ken in Minstead, United Kingdom
• 4th week August 2025  Claygate Pearmain owned by deadbird in Epsom, United Kingdom
• 4th week August 2025  Claygate Pearmain owned by deadbird in Epsom, United Kingdom
• 1st week August 2025  Count Althann's gage owned by Richard in Objat, France
• 1st week August 2025  James Grieve owned by James in Melbourne, United Kingdom

Register your own fruit trees and record blossom and harvest records in our Fruit Tree Register.