If you want to discuss apple varieties, apple flavours, orchards, and how different apple varieties are related, you have come to the right place! Start by viewing our list of apple descriptions.
Course: Orchard design
A 1-day training course on orchard design, ideal for anyone thinking of establishing an orchard or becoming involved in a community orchard project. You will learn about the various aspects of designing a new orchard, including how to assess your orchard site, different planting patterns, and how to determine the number and choice of fruit tree varieties.
The course is being held on Sunday 27th June 2010 at Mount Ephraim Gardens, near Faversham, Kent, UK. More details and booking on the Orange Pippin Shop.
Orange Pippin fruit trees for sale
We now have fruit trees for sale from our new online shop. Initially this is for delivery to the UK only, although you can order from anywhere. Please visit the Orange Pippin shop and let us know what you think. As well as apple trees, we also sell pear trees, cherry trees, plum trees and several other fruit tree varieties.Course: growing fruit trees on their own roots
Learn how to propagate and grow fruit trees without grafting. Fruit trees grown on their own roots are healthier and produce fruit of better quality, flavour and storage life.
The course is held in Brighton, UK, 13th-14th March 2010. For more details see the Brighton Permaculture Trust website.
Apples for sale?
If you are an orchard or apple grower, please tell us what varieties of apples you have for sale so that we can publicise you on our website. It does not matter if they are not in season right now.
Fill in your details on our enquiry form, let us know your opening times, and directions to reach you. There's no charge for this.
Record your tree in our Apple Tree Register!
Orange Pippin is collaborating with the Home Orchard Society to build an international database of apple trees! If you have an apple tree growing in your garden, please tell us about it and share details with other apple enthusiasts around the world. It does not have to be a rare variety - even if it is a common Golden Delicious it is still interesting to see where it is being grown, and how well it grows. We also welcome submissions from growers, community and commercial orchards, and apple tree nurseries.
What to do next
Start by Registering with us. Then you can then follow the 'Tree register' link which appears beside your 'Account details'. Registration is simple - only 5 mandatory fields - and not intrusive. We will use your details only relation to the Orange Pippin website.
Quick links
- Our apple descriptions ... Herefordshire Russet, Saturn, Rhode Island Greening, Shenandoah, Norfolk Royal, Pinova, Beverley Pippin, Northern Greening, Pott's Seedling, Golden Spire ... more apple descriptions ...
- Google Map of registered apple trees
- Discuss apple varieties in our forums
- Book reviews
- Our top 10 dessert apples
- Your top 10 apples
- Top 10 apples for the garden
Recent forum posts
- Janet Brown :
Discuss Discovery apple
- I hadn't realised it was a tip bearer when I planted it next a fence and started to train it as an espalier. Why don't they say whether apple trees are tip r spur bearers on the labels?
It is good as an early eater fresh off the tree but I find the wasps love it too.
... more ... - Dave Liezen :
Discuss Bramley (Bramley's Seedling) apple
- Bruno,
If you are located in the States, look up Raintree Nursery via a search engine. They offer Bramley on semi-dwarf rootstock (EMLA 7) which their catalog indicates should grow to about eleven feet tall, and semi-standard (MM111) which I would guess may reach 17 feet.
I have ordered five different fruit trees from this company (four apples: Liberty, Queen Cox, Kingston Black and Ashmead's Kernel; and one sour cherry: English Morello) and my trees are doing well. I hope for a first crop this season.
... more ... - Peter Michie :
Discuss Ariane apple
- Very very crisp and tasty, on the small side but delicious, highly recommended
... more ... - matt gardner :
Discuss Charles Ross apple
- hi, i brought mine from woolworths 2 years ago, we got a bit of fruit last year (about 10 apples off a very small tree) all were a good size and we should get more this time round. the apples are lovely with pork and very good cooking apples, we didnt keep and to try for eating.
previous poster asked about growing tips? i planted mine in very heavy clay in South Glous. no trouble at all.
... more ... - Ben Hammond :
Discuss Empire apple
- A slender apple, very shiny to look at and gives a consistent crunch. The pure white inners are not only visualy pleasing, but they are full of flavour too, an over all good apple
... more ...
Why 'Orange Pippin' ?
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'. The same word can be seen in the modern French for a plant nursery or garden centre - 'pepiniere'. Like many old apple varieties Cox's Orange Pippin was discovered as a chance seedling.
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Apple and Orchard Articles
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Your top 10 apple varieties
The top 10 most popular apple descriptions on this website. -
Contact
How to contact the Orange Pippin plums and gages editor. -
How to contact Orange Pippin
How to stay up to date with what's happening at Orange Pippin -
Delicious / Red Delicious / Golden Delicious
3 apple varieties, often confused - here is how they relate to each other. -
The National Trust Orchards at Cotehele
Site of the National Trust's new Mother Orchard of predominantly Cornish and Devonshire apple varieties. -
Red coloration in apples
Short article on how to encourage red coloration in apples. -
Russets and Flavour
A discussion of the effect of russeting on the flavour of apples. -
Top 10 apple varieties for the garden
Hamid Habibi of Keepers Nursery to recommend 10 apple varieties which are easy to grow in the northern European garden. -
Top 10 dessert apple varieties for flavour
Our list of the best apple varieties for flavor. -
Supermarket apples
Helps you compare some of the apple varieties listed on this website with popular supermarket apple varieties. -
Book reviews
We hope the following book reviews will help you to find out more about apples, orchards, and growing your own trees. -
Apples for Christmas
An old article fromby Dr. W. E. Shewell-Cooper, reproduced from Hertfordshire Countryside magazine, December 1973. -
Fruit trees on their own roots
Hugh Ermen, one of the top modern UK apple breeders, discusses the techniques and advantages of growing fruit trees without rootstocks - on their own roots. -
Apple breeding at East Malling Research
East Malling Research (EMR) is the principal UK provider of top-class basic, strategic and applied horticultural research and development for the perennial crops sector. Launched in 2004, EMR builds on a 90-year history and world-class reputation for revolutionary research in this field. -
Yorkshire apples
Apples, gardening and orchards in Yorkshire, UK -
Orchard marketing
The potential for marketing produce from local orchards in Yorkshire and Humberside in the UK - a report on the viability of establishing supply chains to link local consumers and local orchards in the UK Countryside Stewardship Scheme.