Your top 10 apple varieties
As voted by you! These are the top 10 most popular apple variety pages on this website over the last month.
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Pink Lady apple
One of the best-known modern apple varieties - and one of the most popular pages on this website. -
Cox's Orange Pippin apple
Is this the best-flavored dessert apple ever - probably. -
Granny Smith apple
The most instantly-recognised of all apples, and perhaps Australia's most famous export. -
Jazz apple
A premium supermarket variety with an excellent rich peardrop flavor. -
Braeburn apple
A popular "supermarket" apple with a good flavour. -
Fuji apple
A very attractive modern apple, crisp, sweet-flavoured, and keeps well. -
Golden Delicious apple
Undoubtedly one of the most important apple varieties of the 20th century, both as a commercial variety in its own right, and as breeding stock for many other varieties. Has a poor reputation amongst apple enthusiasts, but is actually surprisingly good when eaten straight from the tree. -
Gala apple
One of the most widely-grown apple varieties, with a sweet pleasant albeit not outstanding flavour, and good keeping qualities. -
Jonagold apple
A very popular commercial variety, with a good flavour. -
Elstar apple
One of the best Golden Delicious offspring
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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.