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.
- Information on over 600 apple varieties, with user reviews and a 'vote' feature.
- Listings for over 2,000 orchards, with easy to use search and mapping capabilities.
- Find orchards worldwide that grow an apple variety you may be looking for.
- Tree registry section with more than 4,000 individual trees registered, allowing growers to record their trees and log their blossom and harvest dates.
- Calendar of Apple Festivals and orchard events, if you are an event organisers send us details of your apple event.
- 800+ member forum board to discuss various topics surrounding orchards, apples and tree care.
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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Recent visitor comments about listed varieties
| 29 Jul 2018 | Marilyn DeeganCA, United States | |
Apple - AnnaOur Anna apple tree in Long Beach, CA, has been producing for 7-8 years. It blossoms so heavily that I must thin the blossoms or the fruit would break the branches. It is constantly in fruit or blossom, sometimes at the same time. This spring the worms were very bad and if fruit is left to ripen on the tree the bottom end starts to mush. How can I save our fruit? more >> |
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| 20 Jul 2018 | DanielleKELOWNA, Canada | |
Apple - OrinThere is an orchard it's in the Okanagan, British Columbia who grows them. Can often get them at the local farmers markets or the Urban Harvest bin delivery company in Kelowna, BC. They are heavenly! Even tried to find the orchard to get a cutting and grow my own, but couldn't. more >> |
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| 18 Jul 2018 | Leha CarpenterCA, United States | |
Apple - BraeburnI just taste-tested a Braeburn against a Pink Lady. First, Pink Lady is a solidly good apple, but not my favorite. I use it as a benchmark because it’s reliable, good in all categories I test, and available most of the time in my area. Second, I taste each apple plain/raw, plain/cooked, raw with cinnamon, and cooked with salt and brown sugar. These are just my personal ways of eating apples, so goodness in these categories works for me. Third, I like fruit to have a characteristic scent. An apple should smell like an apple! Okay, so Braeburn: Fresh and raw, it is nice. Has a nice, yielding crunch, and is sweet. I would call it subacid. Cooked, it is disappointing. It has an odd smell, and tastes kind of like a cactus. It retains its sweetness, but loses all subtlety. The raw form is decent with cinnamon, but kind of not strong enough to balance cinnamon’s intensity out. Cooking with salt and sugar did not improve it much, and that is a difficult achievement. I would not waste space in my garden for this one when I could grow Honeycrisps and Newton Pippins. more >> |
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| 09 Jul 2018 | AntonBRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada | |
Apple - Pumpkin SweetIf there any Canadians viewing this post, where did you get your trees/ scionwood? The one lady mentions Tillich Nursery, but they don't ship, as far as I can tell and I am a few thousand miles away. more >> |
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| 09 Jul 2018 | AntonBRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada | |
Apple - Pixie CrunchI've grown 8 of these trees over the years, 3 on M7 and 5 on G30... all in North Carolina. While fireblight and cedar-apple rust can be severe, they can be grown in the Southeast with a good fungicide/insecticide program. They have a great flavor and the crispness is exceptional. Of the over 50 kinds of apples I have grown, this was the most popular with folks. It is among my top 10 favorite apples for fresh eating. more >> |
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