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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
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.Advanced search
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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
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Apple - Cox's Orange Pippin
18 Apr 2025 Sally French, TRING, HERTFORDSHIREMy favourite apple since a child, when my grandparents grew some along with Bradley’s, conference pears, gooseberries and other soft fruits. I look for these apples in normal supermarkets and never see them. My memory is of a juicy, sharp and sweet apple, incomparable to what’s generally on offer. I had not thought of growing my own, and probably have left it a bit late.Apple - Fiesta
11 Apr 2025 David, PRESTON, LANCScrops heavily good taste superior to cox orange pippinApple - Cosmic Crisp
07 Apr 2025 Nc, HAMPSHIRE, UKBrought from our local supermarket as a rather pricy premium variety. I liked this apple, juicy and fresh. Wouldn't seek it out again specifically but it was nice enough. My teen son though had half and said it tasted bitter and left a nasty after taste in his mouth. He specifically asked what they were called then said can I remember not to get them again.Apple - Honeycrisp
24 Mar 2025 Jan Clarke, VICTORIA,, BC, CANADAI love the honey crisp because of its tangy flavour _ none of the descriptions I have read about this apple describe that aspect which I find weird!Apple - Egremont Russet
08 Mar 2025 Mark Hayden, LONDON, LONDONthe best apple of all time. i eat nothing else. sadly other than off my tree they invariable have a pointless plastic label on the skin. STOP DOING THIS.
Latest spring blossom records from registered fruit trees
- 23rd April 2025 Apple - Golden Delicious owned by Wayne in Watlington, United Kingdom
- 23rd April 2025 Apple - Red Devil owned by Andrew in Hereford, United Kingdom
- 22nd April 2025 Apple - Grenadier owned by Wayne in Watlington, United Kingdom
- 22nd April 2025 Apple - Margil owned by Wayne in Watlington, United Kingdom
- 22nd April 2025 Apple - Bramley's Seedling owned by Wayne in Watlington, United Kingdom
Find out how to record your blossom dates in our Fruit Tree Register.