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 - George Cave

  01 Aug 2022  Elizabeth Mccann, 

  This is a fantastic good all rounder as it has a good zing that can also make a lovely cooking apple. The apple is small to medium in size and kids love them!!

• Apple - Grimes Golden

  27 Jul 2022  David, 

  Grimes and Yellow delicious are both good but Grimes is more tart and to me tastes better. We had 110 acres of apple trees when I grew up and some were Grimes. Seems only older people have ever heard of them but not surprised as you never find them in the store and most people don’t grow them. Sad as they really are a great apple.

• Apple - Fiesta

  19 Jul 2022  Liz, 

  I bought and planted a fiesta tree this year and so far the apples 🍏 look very green- when can I expect it to turn red?? Or is it a golden delicious I was sold instead?? Newbie gardener!

• Apple - Smitten

  15 Jul 2022  Susan Dolan, 

  Absolutely delicious !!

• Plum - Herman

  06 Jul 2022  Kristinn Hermannsson, 

  Precocious and heavy cropper. Excellent flavour. Sweet with some acidity and tannins. More grown-up/interesting flqvour than super market plums. Important to thin otherwise small fruits and less distinct taste.

Latest harvest records from registered fruit trees

• 2nd week March 2022  Freyberg owned by Tubber in Christchurch, New Zealand

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