Ellison's Orange apple

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Visitor reviews

• 28 Mar 2020  Mark Atkin,  GLOUCESTERSHIRE, United Kingdom

  I have an Ellison's Orange tree in my garden. I love to pick these and eat them straight from the tree. I don't like aniseed, but I can't taste that in them. Its my favourite apple when eaten fresh like this. Delicious flavour. Not too sweet, but not sharp either.
• 18 Oct 2016  Freek,  SHEFFIELD, United Kingdom

  This year was the first big crop after planting 7 years ago, it was worth the wait, they are only just fully ripe now (18oct). I pick them straight from the tree when needed, they are surpassing the coxes from the supermarket in flavour and juiciness, fantastic apple (5/5)!
• 09 Oct 2014  Lyn Evans,  HERTFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom

  I have a Cox Orange Pippin but its not a patch on the Ellisons Orange which is quite superb. Haven't noticed any aniseed flavour despite eating right through its ripening process. Interested in the tip to wrap and keep in the dark, if there are any left! Not one bad shape or attack by pest or canker.
• 21 Sep 2013  Elisabeth,  LINCOLN, United Kingdom

  There is a very old and large Ellisons Orange tree in a back garden at Usher Avenue together with an equally old Blenheim Orange. If anyone from the Boultham Park renovation team is interested then they should be able to find them and they are very welcome to contact me.
• 07 Nov 2012  Hana Rous,  READING, United Kingdom

  We have an Ellison's orange tree, which fruits well every year and has delicious apples. I personally like the slight anise flavour. It's a battle to keep the Coddling moth off though and i don't prune everu year.
• 12 Jan 2012  Jane Howson,  LINCOLN, United Kingdom

  Hi, we are working on a 3 million pound project to restore the park at Boultham which was the site of Boultham Hall -home of the Ellison's. One of the things we are looking to do is heritage planting and so I have been really interested to read this stream of information.
• 22 Aug 2011  Ken Ellison,  MARCIAC, France

  We planted an Ellison's Orange in memory of my brother in 2003 - this year has been prolific after pruning. Best eaten off the tree as the windfalls tend to be diseased. Not really tasted the Aniseed!
• 10 Apr 2010  N. Buck,  CAMBRIDGESHIRE, United Kingdom

  A very nice tasting apple. But very prone to codling moth (maggots). Also quite prone to canker. Not recommended unless you plan to treat against codling and canker. Mildew and scab resistance is quite good and treatment shouldn't be required against those diseases.
• 19 Feb 2010  Nigel Deacon,  United Kingdom

  taste / texture of this apple is identical to laxton's fortune - both have a hint of anise (aniseed). can be difficult to tell them apart, but the shape is different. laxton's fortune is more curvy. the depth of the eye is different too.
• 15 Sep 2009  John Turner,  MERSEYSIDE, United Kingdom

  If you can be brave- thin the branches and get beautiful large, red apples. Large ones store well- wrapped and boxed and you can enjoy until December. The flavour is complex and slightly aniseed, but delicious. A great variety.
• 09 Sep 2009  Carolyne Houghton,  GOSPORT, HAMPSHIRE,ENGLAND, United Kingdom

  we had an ellison's orange in the garden as kids, we always wrapped them in newspaper and stored them in the dark...that way they seemed to last quite a while. Now i've just purchased one of my own, hope it's as good as i remember!
• 12 Nov 2008  Rob Oates,  BEDFORD, United Kingdom

  As a child, we had a large Ellison's Orange tree in the orchard. It usually had a good crop of juicy, full flavored fruit with a distinctive orange tang. Aniseed is not a flavor I can recall at any time.
• 03 Nov 2008  John Pye,  LINCOLN, United States

  I was born in Rookery Lane Lincoln, beside Boultham Park wich was the Ellison family home (Boultham Hall). We had a tree in the garden & the apples were beautiful. Just been to check & sadly the tree is no longer there.
• 22 Oct 2008  Rachel,  WINCANTON, SOMERSET, United Kingdom

  We have a tree in our garden (only owned the house 3 years) which is an Ellisons Orange - we have had bumper crops in the last 2 very wet years and after pruning the tree back quite hard.. I had more than I knew what to do with this year but they went down well at work and with the neighbours. They don't keep for all that long though - even in a cold dark place, they seem to go a bit soft but you can see where the orange name comes from as they go from bright green with a wonderful red blush to a yellowy-orange colour at the end of the season.. I have never noticed aniseed...
• 30 Sep 2008  Pete Pickle,  LONDON, United Kingdom

  These apples are mad hot. Can't get enough.
• 08 Oct 2007  Peter Bull,  SHROPSHIRE, United Kingdom

  We have a tree identified recently at an apple day fair as Ellison's Orange. We have only lived at this address for 18 months, but we believe the tree was planted soon after the house was built in 1965. For both our summers here it has cropped very prolifically. Picked fresh off the tree, the fruit is absolutely delicious. However it seems to lose its crispness, juiciness and delicious flavour if not eaten fairly soon after picking. But I can't say I've noticed anything like aniseed in its taste.
• 06 Oct 2007  S Neville,  SURREY, ENGLAND, United Kingdom

  One of the apple trees in my garden has been identified as an Ellison's Orange. We know that it has been growing there since at least 1956, when my husband's parents moved in to this property. My husband thinks the tree was already planted, either by an earlier owner or perhaps when the house was originally built in the early 1930s. It was originally an espalier, which would have needed a lot of pruning, but that got neglected so it has grown into a bush tree. We have had it pruned in recent years but have been advised to leave it be from now on. It bears apples this year and they are larger than usual, very juicy and I like them. I shall be choosing one to take tomorrow to church to help decorate the base of the font for harvest festival. I shall be taking some Laxton's Superb apples with the same history which are more prolific at this time of year. The birds like to peck at both varieties. Normally there are insects inside the apples, but this does not seem to have happened in 2007. I have not been asked before to take anything to decorate the church.
• 22 Sep 2007  A Ellison,  YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom

  i grow this apple and have done for 15 years . i find this apple very sweet and juicy and tender fruits. as for tasteing of aniseed imust say i have never tasted it.it is a very good doer and i get plenty of apples every year

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Where to buy fresh fruit

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  • Skipley Farm, Snohomish        *** Feature Orchard ***

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• England - midlands

  • Walsgrove Farm, Worcester

• England - north

  • Holly Mount Orchard, Bury
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• England - south-east

  • Wigmore Orchard, Tadley

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  • A'Beckett's, Devizes

Australia

• Victoria

  • Heritage Fruits Society, Fairfield

References

• Apples of England (1948)
  Author: Taylor
• Fruit Expert
  Author: Hessayon