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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 - Gala

    10 Oct 2024 
    I 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 
    Mine have a lot of scab this year, is this common with this variety? They still have a lovely flavour

  • Apple - Falstaff

    07 Oct 2024 
    Falstaff 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 
    Fruit 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 October

  • Apple - Creston

    02 Oct 2024 
    Crisp 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.