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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 - Smitten

    16 Apr 2024 
    Fairly good considering they are British apples and it's now April therefore they must be last year's crop. Nice and crisp, skin not too tough for a stored apple, more taste than Gala, better flesh than Braeburn, closer to a Cox than anything else I have tasted this time of year

  • Apple - Howgate Wonder

    15 Apr 2024 
    Howgate Wonder. My father planted one in the late 70's, I have 2 in the garden and have planted 2 as part of a local community orchard. A friend is a relative of the nurseryman who created the variety. We leave the apples on the tree until new year, as although they do keep amazingly they are at their best when eaten from the tree, If you expect them to stew like bramley's you will be disappointed. As a baked apple they have few if any peers. In my opinion best eaten from the tree, great in a salad. Have added them in cider, but only if we have too many.

  • Apple - Golden Harvey

    11 Apr 2024 
    I found information somewhere (can't even remember where) That the Golden Harvey is a.k.a. the Brandy Apple. Do you know if this is true?

  • Apple - Golden Delicious

    30 Mar 2024 
    I dont like any of the "delicious" varieties it seems. Terrible texture, Ugly shape, Mild taste. LONG LIVE THE HONEYCRISP (although sometimes too sweet so the search continues lol)

  • Apple - Jazz

    26 Mar 2024 
    Some packs are excellent other packs a poor

Latest spring blossom records from registered fruit trees

Find out how to record your blossom dates in our Fruit Tree Register.