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If you are interested in apple varieties, pears, cherries or plums, or orchards where these fruits are grown, you have come to the right place.
Fruit tree varieties
Descriptions of over 700 apple and cider apple varieties, as well as crab-apples, pears, plums, fruiting cherries and ornamental cherries, apricots, and peaches and nectarines.Advanced search
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Orchards
Listings for over 2,000 orchards in the United States, Canada, UK and elsewhere.Tree register
Our Fruit tree register has details of more than 11,000 trees registered by their owners, including blossom and harvest records.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', and like many old apple varieties Cox's Orange Pippin was discovered as a chance seedling.
Recent variety reviews
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Apple - Sunset
02 May 2024 Brian Griffiths, HOPE VALLEY, DERBYSHIREWe have grown sunsets for a number of years. On a vigorous rootstock they can do well on poor soil. Generally reliable heavy croppers but as article states necessary to thin out the the fruits to ensure a decent size. In our experience they store well (individually wrapped, stored on trays in unheated green house so cool in winter) this year we ate the last of the crop in early February. Can get canker, choose your tree carefully!Pear - Packham's Triumph
25 Apr 2024 Alan Marzé, DEVONPORT, TASMANIAReliably good pears, at the worst of times, juicy, with tender skin and good flavour, though I slightly prefer Conference to the average Packham's. The largest specimens, however, exceding 4" across, can be truly sublime, with a delicious sweet, nutty flavour near the core that I could hardly believe the first time I encountered it. At their best, they're certainly the best pears that I've tasted.Pear - Winter Nelis
25 Apr 2024 Alan Marzé, DEVONPORT, TASMANIASmall, with bitter, tough and slippery skin and uninteresting, watery flesh.Apple - Cosmic Crisp
20 Apr 2024 C.T.D.This apple variety seems to be quite delicious! The two I've had were both superb, tasting exactly how I think apples should (sweet with a little acidity) with fantastic texture all the way through. They're also very large, so there's more apple per apple to enjoy.Apple - Smitten
16 Apr 2024 Tommo, CAMBRIDGEFairly good considering they are British apples and it's now April therefore they must be last year's crop. Nice and crisp, skin not too tough for a stored apple, more taste than Gala, better flesh than Braeburn, closer to a Cox than anything else I have tasted this time of year
Latest spring blossom records from registered fruit trees
- 18th April 2024 Apple - Fiesta owned by Richard in York, United Kingdom
- 18th April 2024 Apple - Kidd's Orange Red owned by Richard in York, United Kingdom
- 16th April 2024 Apple - Elstar owned by Richard in York, United Kingdom
- 26th March 2024 Plum - Denniston's Superb owned by Richard in York, United Kingdom
- 24th March 2024 Flowering cherry - Ichiyo owned by Richard in Objat, France
Find out how to record your blossom dates in our Fruit Tree Register.