Cox's Orange Pippin is a well-known and very popular variety known for its reliability in cooler climates. Often first choice for many chefs when it comes to cooking with apples.

The thin skinned aromatic, crisp and juicy apples have a disjunctive flavour making this apple a popular choice to pick and enjoy fresh due to its wonderful sweet flavour. Or it can become the key ingredient of many dishes. We recommend you pick and eat or cook fresh, however, if picked early Pippin will store for around a month.

This popular and tasty variety is self-fertile (SF) so it flowers and fruits independently. They produce fruit, even when planted in isolation. Handling UK weather well you can expect to receive strong harvest mid to late September.

The dwarf characteristics of the Pippin tree means that harvesting is a simple task reducing the need to reach up high.

Cropping from October it is Ideal for eating fresh, it stores well too.

Rootstock: M26

Flowering Group: FG3

Years until fruiting from planting: 2

Age of tree at despatch: 2

Height at full growth: 3m/10ft

Most of our trees are delivered as bare rooted specimens with approximate height of: 3.5ft - 5ft / 105cm - 140cm depending on the variety.

In order to ensure a good pollination pick fruit trees from within the same or from adjacent flowering groups.

The vast majority of the trees we ship have been pruned and will appear trimmed.

Features

• Hardy Perennial - sow indoors or on a seedbed (April-June); transplant later to flower for many seasons
• Attracts Bees
• Will flower well in full sun
• Will flower well in partial sun
• Varieties that, in our selector's opinion, have exceptional flavour