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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
Information on over 700 apple and cider apple varieties, as well as crab-apples, pears, plums, fruiting cherries and ornamental cherries, apricots, and peaches and nectarines,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 - Gala
14 Jun 2022 Phyllis Smith,lMy apples look fine however they have a stale tasteApple - William's Pride
08 Jun 2022 Khushal Chand Chauhan,Is this apple variety known as William's favourite? I have this variety in my orchard, since the 1970s.Gage - Golden Transparent
05 Jun 2022 Sherwin Dubren,Can occasional Black Knot prevent my 2016 tree from producing fruit? It gives blossoms and although self fruitful, I additionally hand pollinate it from another nearby Gage Plum.Plum - Gordon Castle
05 Jun 2022 c Buck,Planted in 2021. Doing extremely well on the heavy soil of South Yorkshire. Strong growing and already has half a dozen small fruitPlum - Toptaste Kulinaria
05 Jun 2022 c Buck,I planted two of these in South Yorkshire 2 years ago. They are very susceptible to leaf curling midge. My other plum trees varieties aside Mirabelle de Nancy, are not similarly affected and are doing well. To be fair I live on an exposed hilltop, but I expected better.
Latest spring blossom records from registered fruit trees
- 30th May 2022 Apple - Sweet Sixteen owned by David in Two Rivers, United States
- 30th May 2022 Apple - Honeycrisp owned by David in Two Rivers, United States
- 24th May 2022 Apple - Grimes Golden owned by Blair in Squilax, Canada
- 19th May 2022 Cherry - Black Gold owned by David in Two Rivers, United States
- 15th May 2022 Apple - Suntan owned by Stuart in Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
Find out how to record your blossom dates in our Fruit Tree Register.
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