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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Latest harvest records from registered fruit trees
- 3rd week October 2018 Winston owned by Tessa in KINGSTON, United Kingdom
- 2nd week October 2018 Honeygold owned by Beth in POCATELLO, United States
- 2nd week October 2018 Fuji owned by Jerry in Point Reyes Station, United States
- 2nd week October 2018 Claygate Pearmain owned by Jerry in Point Reyes Station, United States
- 2nd week October 2018 Magnum Bonum owned by Jerry in Point Reyes Station, United States
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Recent visitor comments about listed varieties
| 13 Oct 2018 | FrancescaEAST SUSSEX, United Kingdom | |
Apple - Ribston PippinRibston Apples are mentioned in Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native book 2, chapter 2. They are referred to as being stored in the loft underneath ferns and are being eaten at Christmas more >> |
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| 09 Oct 2018 | FrankCORNWALL, United Kingdom | |
Apple - RajkaThis apple is a stunner in the orchard. Looks beautiful on the tree, gorgeous colour and scent. Disease resistant in our damp climate, so growing well. Good garden variety. Flavour is okay, reminds me a bit of a well flavoured supermarket apple, but it is not exceptional. I guess it is a good all rounder, but if you grow for special flavours, it wouldn't be my choice. If I move, I won't plant it again, just buy a bag of gala or something equivalent from the supermarket and grow something a bit less ordinary. But as said, grows well, looks good, tastes fine, no disease issues at all. Birds do like it too though and pecked on half of my crop. oh well. more >> |
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| 09 Oct 2018 | FrankCORNWALL, United Kingdom | |
Apple - JonagoldBest flavoured apple I have grown so far. Yes it has scab here in Cornwall, but who cares, it tastes amazing. though prone to canker, only had one case on one branch in the last 9 years, so not that bad I thought. If i'd ever move, I would plant it again. more >> |
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| 09 Oct 2018 | FrankCORNWALL, United Kingdom | |
Apple - RubinolaLooks nice, good flavour, but it is a tip bearer, definately not a spur bearer which makes it a bit more tricky to grow. Not a heavy cropper so far, tree is about 6 years old on M26. Very nice ornamental flowers in spring, but as said before can't be pruned to shape very easily due to tip bearing. more >> |
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| 09 Oct 2018 | FrankCORNWALL, United Kingdom | |
Apple - ScrumptiousPerhaps it is our climate but I don't find this apple variety very easy to grow. Yes it is easily pollinated, but after all the effort you end up with a mediocre apple, that is quite funny in flavour. Also I don't find the tree particularly disease resistant in our climate. Several cases of canker on this tree and last year some kind of rust disease, which caused loss of leaves of almost the whole tree. So not for me, and perhaps not for the damp/mild Cornish climate either. more >> |
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