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This website has grown out of our personal interest in apples.

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Apple and Orchard Articles

  • 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.
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