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.

• Plum - Victoria

  10 May 2020  Judith Carter,  MERSEYSIDE, United Kingdom

  I have an allotment where I am getting suckers, from the Victoria plum in the next plot, coming up in my raspberry patch. Having read the post by Adrian (2012) about the quality of suckers, I want to know whether there may be in any drawbacks to keeping a sucker in amongst the raspberries, which are in a 3x3m patch in the open. the main sucker is only about 3m from the mother tree.

• Plum - Belle de Louvain

  03 May 2020  Jenny Green,  EAST SUSSEX, United Kingdom

  I adore this plum which makes the finest, darkest jam ever! Always a pleasure to open a jar and spread it on a good slice of white crusty bread.

• Apple - Pink Lady

  02 May 2020  Ashford,  WESTERN CAPE, South Africa

  Pink Lady is by far the best hybrid of all apples .The sweetness/sourness combination is just perfect .We are so fortunate they are plenty here in South Africa

• Apple - Mother

  28 Apr 2020  David Weeks,  CO, United States

  I grafted this apple, It grew well for two seasons, but this spring it had died over the winter. The branches where bout 2.5 cm in diameter at the base. Two other Apple grafts on the same top dressed tree, are viable with no dead wood.

• Apple - Allington Pippin

  22 Apr 2020  Rosamundjonkers,  CAMBS, United Kingdom

  I have a very old Allington Pippin tree. It was identified by the RHS in their identification scheme. My house was built in 1901 on an old orchard and several very old trees remain in our garden. It has a wonderful flavour when cooked, people often ask if it is a pear. It keeps very well, often until April. One problem is that it tends to bear biennially.

Latest spring blossom records from registered fruit trees

• 3rd May 2020  Apple - Morgan Sweet owned by Ehill@Sky.Com in Bristol, United Kingdom
• 1st May 2020  Apple - Kandil Sinap owned by Jerry in Point Reyes Station, United States
• 30th April 2020  Somerset Redstreak owned by Ehill@Sky.Com in Bristol, United Kingdom
• 30th April 2020  Apple - Sweet Sixteen owned by Jerry in Point Reyes Station, United States
• 29th April 2020  Apple - Sweet Alford owned by Ehill@Sky.Com in Bristol, United Kingdom

Find out how to record your blossom dates in our Fruit Tree Register.