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.
Fruit tree varieties
Descriptions of over 700 apple and cider apple varieties, as well as crab-apples, pears, plums, fruiting cherries and ornamental cherries, apricots, and peaches and nectarines.Advanced search
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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
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Apple - Gala
10 Oct 2024 Sandy Mowrer, WALNUT CREEK, CAI have been buying Gala Apples for a very long time but our family noticed a drastic change! The Gala was no longer crisp, juicy but soft and almost mealy!! Guess I will try a different brand. I buy them weekly at my local COSTCO 🤔Apple - Red Gold
08 Oct 2024 Margaret, CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGESHIREMine have a lot of scab this year, is this common with this variety? They still have a lovely flavourApple - Falstaff
07 Oct 2024 Peter Mcfadden, Conwy, GWYNEDDFalstaff apple grows very well in my garden in north Wales, UK. I planted the tree in 2002, masses of fruit every year (thanks to my bees nearby) and it makes a great juice.Apple - Elstar
06 Oct 2024 Patricia, Hawick, SCOTTISH BORDERSFruit 4years after planting sapling growing on dwarf stock. About 20 fruits, all a good size Not ready for picking until later than first week of OctoberApple - Creston
02 Oct 2024 Luke Andrews, TORONTO, ONCrisp when fresh, and well-balanced between sweet and tart. Medium size. Very juicy.
Latest harvest records from registered fruit trees
- 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.