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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 - Smitten
16 Apr 2024 Tommo, CAMBRIDGEFairly 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 yearApple - Howgate Wonder
15 Apr 2024 Mark Allery, LYNCHMERE, WEST SUSSEXHowgate 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 Christopher Reisner, PORTLAND, ORI 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 Eyes, NA, NAI 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 Michael Bowen, REDDITCH, WORCESTERSHIRESome packs are excellent other packs a poor
Latest spring blossom records from registered fruit trees
- 18th April 2024 Apple - Fiesta owned by Richard in York, United Kingdom
- 18th April 2024 Apple - Kidd's Orange Red owned by Richard in York, United Kingdom
- 16th April 2024 Apple - Elstar owned by Richard in York, United Kingdom
- 26th March 2024 Plum - Denniston's Superb owned by Richard in York, United Kingdom
- 24th March 2024 Flowering cherry - Ichiyo owned by Richard in Objat, France
Find out how to record your blossom dates in our Fruit Tree Register.