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.
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 ... Bushey Grove, Delicious, Braeburn, King of Tomkins County, Nonnetit Bastard, Worcester Pearmain, Norfolk Royal Russet, Howgate Wonder, Bolero, Alkmene ... 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
- Chalaine :
Discuss Newtown Pippin apple
- Near Mountain View, California? You are in luck. The Milk Pail store/fruit market (2585 California Street in MTV) has an incredible variety of apples. I've been trying something of everything and am currently hooked on Pippins. I've never before lived near a store like this and had no idea there were so many varieties of apples. Many of the apples are organic and many grown locally. Prices are great too! I just sampled my first Spitzenberg. They have a little website - www.milkpail.com.
... more ... - Sam :
Discuss Bundy's Ringwood Red apple
- That's an amazing story, Mark!
I have never 'met' anyone who's actually *named* a fruit variety.
Bundy's Ringwood Red must be a beautiful apple. It's one I have *craved* to grow for a long time, but as I live in Australia the chance of ever obtaining one are remote.
It's a frustrating situation!
Plants are almost impossible to bring into this country, though seeds are fine.
... more ... - Sam :
Discuss Aerlies Red Fleshed apple
- Interestingly, this apple appears to be known by three names:
1. Aerlies Red Fleshed
2. Airlie Red Flesh
3. Hidden Rose
It is said to originate from Airlie, Oregon, USA.
Of course the beautiful thing about this apple is the colour of its flesh. It is also said to have an excellent flavour. Has anyone on this forum ever tasted it?
... more ... - Susan S Fliegel :
Discuss Cox's Orange Pippin apple
- Many years ago found this apple in the Boston Farmer's Market when I was visiting there, and bought a few. Went back the next day and bought a huge bag full. One of the best apples I have ever eaten, and the one I will plant if I get land in the next few years.
... more ... - C Moschopoulos :
Discuss Granny Smith apple
- I, too have found that the apples I buy whether organic or regular have now developed a tendency to turn brown and blothcy on the skin when they are otherwise just fine. I also would like to know why - but so far have seen nothing about it except on this fiorm above. At first I thought it was becasue I bought them out of season and they were stored, but during this last season they continued to turn brown. It is rather offputting considering that in years past this was NEVER a problem. Any ideas???
... 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.