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All about apples, pears, plums, and cherries - and orchards where they are grown

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.

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

You can add your own comments on any variety page.

  • Apple - Royal Gala

    27 Nov 2024 
    Royal Gala can be a superb supermarket apple, with an exceptionally crisp bite and a slightly mild but pleasant flavour. Not too sweet!
  • Apple - Opal (Seabrook)

    26 Nov 2024 
    I received this apple in a fruit box which our office get every week. The apple was okay, nothing to write home about. I would prefer a Pink Lady or perhaps a Gala apple over this one. I would not reach for this again. I think I am slightly put off by the yellow-ness
  • Apple - Christmas Pearmain

    22 Nov 2024 
    Very handsome apple with a surprisingly complex flavour. As for 'not being very attractive by today's standards', who cares? 'Today's standards are designed to appeal to children and infantilized adults. Christmas Pearmain has real character, as do many of the traditional varieties.
  • Apple - Reinette Russet

    16 Nov 2024 
    Great flavour
  • Apple - Blue Pearmain

    16 Nov 2024 
    Beautiful big dark mottled apple, keeps well, solid flesh, does not have a strong flavor

Latest harvest records from registered fruit trees

  • 2nd week October 2024  Fiesta owned by Richard in York, United Kingdom
  • 3rd week August 2024  Bramley's Seedling owned by Richard in Objat, France
  • 3rd week August 2024  Red Windsor owned by Richard in Objat, France

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