Welcome to Orange Pippin

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.

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

You can add your own comments on any variety page.

• Apple - Nittany

  26 Oct 2020  Mary Sweeten,  PENNSYLVANIA, United States

  Our favorite apple. Mild, almost golden delicious taste with tart edge, always crisp. They keep till February for us -- they just get wrinkled, never mealy. We drive to Adams County, PA, every year to buy a bushel.

• Apple - Saturn

  25 Oct 2020  Billy Auger,  SHROPSHIRE, United Kingdom

  Bought an initial 5 on 106 rootstock. Taste is boring,bland but juicy and sweet. I didn't like it but my customers love it, so I top worked 35 red Falstaff with it...and still haven't got enough. Will probably graft/ top work another 25 with it. Although a beautiful looking apple it can suffer with canker, no matter what the catalogues say

• Apple - Fiesta

  25 Oct 2020  Billy Auger,  SHROPSHIRE, United Kingdom

  Very good and Prolific apple, have 35 mature trees on 106. Crops every year of very nice apples.Got approximately 4 tonne this year...which is too many. Going to top work 10 to 15 with Charles Ross in March

• Apple - Charles Ross

  25 Oct 2020  Billy Auger,  SHROPSHIRE, United Kingdom

  Very nice apple, top worked about 20 Discovery with them about 3 years ago. Prolific crop this year, that I should have thinned more but about 100kg of useful apples. Going to top work around 15 Fiesta with them next March

• Apple - Jonagold

  24 Oct 2020  Betty West,  OHIO, United States

  Best apples I have had. Can’t find them in Dayton. I got these at the food bank I love them

Latest harvest records from registered fruit trees

• 3rd week October 2020  Chivers Delight owned by Dave in Derby, United Kingdom
• 2nd week October 2020  Frostbite owned by Jerry in Point Reyes Station, United States
• 2nd week October 2020  Victory (Etter) apple owned by Jerry in Point Reyes Station, United States
• 2nd week October 2020  Apricot owned by Jerry in Point Reyes Station, United States
• 2nd week October 2020  Spigold owned by Jerry in Point Reyes Station, United States

Register your own fruit trees and record blossom and harvest records in our Fruit Tree Register.