Welcome to Orange Pippin
The website for apple enthusiasts and orchardists.
Record your apple tree in our Apple Tree Register!
Be part of our exciting project 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. Does it grow well or badly? What sort of crops do you get? Do you prune it? 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. (If you sell trees or apples or related products, or want to tell visitors about your trees, please ask us for a free listing in our supplier directory).
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.
Browse some of our apple descriptions:
- Catshead apple
- Ribston Pippin apple
- Fameuse apple
- Gala apple
- Rhode Island Greening apple
- Margil apple
- Adams Pearmain apple
- Crispin (Mutsu) apple
- Northern Greening apple
- Bismarck apple
... or view our index of apple varieties.
Quick links
- Our apple descriptions
- Suggest a new variety
- Book reviews
- Our top 10 dessert apples
- Your top 10 apples
- Top 10 apples for the garden
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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Articles
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Your top 10 apple varieties
The top 10 most popular apple descriptions on this website. -
EuCAN - traditional orchard habitat conservation events
Opportunities to join short placements in 2009 in Belgium and France. -
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.