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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.

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.

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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

You can add your own comments on any variety page.

  • Apple - Braeburn

    02 Sep 2024 
    The best apple I have ever had! Unfortunately I can’t find them anywhere anymore. I’m in Florida.

  • Apple - Newtown Pippin

    31 Aug 2024 
    I have a tree outside my bedroom window and the last 10 years enjoy watching the Newton Pippin apples grow watching their color with a little bit of blushing with anticipation to pick pill early and make some pies, tarts, and just plain enjoying the flavor of a tart sweet crisp flavor organic apple. It is In my opinion of the job Apple due to flavor , versatility, and abundance.

  • Apple - Court Pendu Plat

    30 Aug 2024 
    Huge issue with this variety is it's late blooming, much later than all other varieties. Since it needs other tree for polination, it means it won't have apples in most years, unless you plant another late blooming variety.

  • Apple - Ellison's Orange

    26 Aug 2024 
    Hear hear to the description above. Many years ago our family grew wonderfully flavoured Coxes on the red marl soil of west Glos but they were heavily russeted and thus stitched up for grading by the Kent growers who set the standards then. We had just two Ellisons Orange trees against a wall in the walled garden and they, to me, outshone all the many other varieties at Meredith Fruit Farm.

  • Apple - Morgan Sweet

    25 Aug 2024 
    Bill Fox from Bedminster (Bristol) born 1915 said that Morgan Sweets were the only apples worthy of making toffee (actually he called them taffy) apples from.

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.