Help and Advice

How to choose fruit trees

• 1. How to choose and buy the best apple trees for your garden
• 2. Bare-root or Pot-grown fruit trees?
• 3. Fruit tree rootstocks and tree sizes
• 4. Apple varieties similar to those you find in supermarkets
• 5. Fruit tree sizes and forms

Planting and growing

• 1. Start here - guide to planting fruit trees
• 2. How to support a newly-planted fruit tree
• 3. Pruning a newly-planted fruit tree
• 4. Watering your fruit trees
• 5. Pollination of apple trees and other fruit trees
• 6. Best time for planting fruit trees
• 7. Fruit tree planting accessories
• 8. Fruit tree spacing and planting distances
• 9. Growing fruit trees in pots and containers
• 10. How to plant apple trees and other fruit trees

Fruit tree advice

• 1. Training fruit trees as fans and espaliers
• 2. Introduction to Fruit Tree Rootstocks
• 3. Temporary or Permanent Tree Stakes
• 4. Growing apple trees and other fruit trees in the UK climate
• 5. Allotment fruit trees
• 6. Ballerina®, Minarette®, and Cordon fruit trees
• 7. Fruit tree varieties - season of use
• 8. Fruit trees and Honey Fungus
• 9. Hazelnuts - pollination
• 10. Hazelnuts and Cobnuts - how to plant and grow them
• 11. Heeling-in fruit trees
• 12. Hosepipe bans - how to help your Fruit Trees
• 13. How long before my fruit tree will start to produce fruit?
• 14. How to pollinate Bramley apple trees
• 15. Minimum chill requirement for apple trees
• 16. Mychorrizal fungi for planting fruit trees
• 17. Own-root fruit trees
• 18. Picking times for apples and other fruit trees
• 19. Pruning fruit trees
• 20. Storing and keeping apples
• 21. Storing fruit trees for Christmas presents
• 22. Triploid apple varieties
• 23. Why won't my apple tree produce any apples?
• 24. Windbreaks for orchards

Diseases and Problems

• 1. Aphids
• 2. Bacterial canker
• 3. Canker
• 4. Caterpillar damage
• 5. Codling moth
• 6. Eriophyid mites
• 7. Fireblight
• 8. Frost damage
• 9. Magnesium deficiency
• 10. Peach leaf curl
• 11. Pear leaf blister mite
• 12. Pear rust
• 13. Scab
• 14. Walnut blister mite

Fruit tree gardening and general interest

• 1. Delicious, Red Delicious, and Golden Delicious
• 2. The Flavour of Russet Apples
• 3. Transplanting semi-mature fruit trees
• 4. Apple rootstocks for historical English gardens
• 5. Apple trees for sweet cider and hard cider
• 6. Apples for cooking
• 7. Book reviews
• 8. Book reviews
• 9. Do we sell GMO apple varieties?
• 10. Estimating the mature height of fruit trees
• 11. Fruit breeder profiles
• 12. Fruit tree blossom
• 13. Fruit trees featured on TV news or in the media
• 14. How to name your own apple variety
• 15. In praise of the M27 apple rootstock
• 16. Interstems, stem-builders and double-working
• 17. Juicing apples - how to make your own apple juice
• 18. New fruit trees
• 19. New VVA-1 / Krymsk 1 dwarfing rootstock
• 20. Organic apple trees
• 21. Planting fruit trees near to a house or wall
• 22. Plum tree species - an overview
• 23. RHS Award of Garden Merit - about the AGM award
• 24. RHS Award of Garden Merit - fruit trees
• 25. Rootstock size-class matrix
• 26. Rootstocks for Apple trees
• 27. Rootstocks for Cherry trees
• 28. Rootstocks for Pear and Quince trees
• 29. Rootstocks for Plum trees
• 30. Spindle-bush commercial grade knip fruit trees for sale
• 31. Vitamin C content of apples

Customer services

• 1. Fruit tree guarantee
• 2. Photos of our fruit trees as supplied from the nursery
• 3. About Orange Pippin Fruit Trees
• 4. Copyright statement
• 5. Espalier and Fan-trained fruit trees for sale
• 6. Fruit tree delivery - Western Europe
• 7. Fruit tree delivery UK Highlands & Islands
• 8. Fruit Tree Finder Service
• 9. Fruit tree gift certificates
• 10. Fruit tree planting service - London / M25
• 11. Fruit Tree Propagation Service
• 12. Grants for planting fruit trees from the Tree Council
• 13. Group orders for fruit trees
• 14. Higher Level Stewardship - Traditional Orchards
• 15. Online tools for fruit tree enthusiasts
• 16. On-site fruit tree / orchard pruning course
• 17. On-site orchard design course for community groups
• 18. Orange Pippin corporate
• 19. Orange Pippin Ltd
• 20. Orchard design service
• 21. Ordering and Delivery of Fruit Trees
• 22. Privacy Policy
• 23. Redeeming a Fruit Tree Gift Certificate
• 24. Refunds
• 25. Terms and Conditions
• 26. UK-grown trees
• 27. When is the best time to order new fruit trees?

Popular searches

• 1. Self-fertile apple varieties
  Apple varieties we sell which are reliably self-fertile or partially self-fertile.
• 2. Disease-resistant apple varieties
  Traditional apple varieties with good disease-resistance and modern disease-resistant varieties.
• 3. Cooking apples
  Apple varieties which have the acidity and textures needed for use in the kitchen.
• 4. Apple varieties which are good pollinators for other apples
  Apples and crab-apples which produce widely-compatible or long-lasting pollen, useful for pollinating other apple varieties.
• 5. Apple trees for the beginner
  Reliable apple varieties which are easy to grow, disease-resistant, good-cropping - ideal for the new apple grower.
• 6. Best apple varieties for juicing and pressing
  All apples can be juiced, but if you want press your own apple juice these varieties offer the best quality colour and flavour.
• 7. Pear trees for beginners
  Reliable pear trees which are easy to grow, ideal for beginners.
• 8. Plum trees for beginners.
  Easy plum trees, ideal for beginners.
• 9. Cherry trees for beginners
  Self-fertile sweet cherry varieties which should succeed in any spot in full sun.
• 10. Black cherries
  A list of so-called "black" or dark-skinned cherry varieties.
• 11. Fruit trees for North West Scotland
  A selection of fruit tree varieties that should survive and be productive in cool temperate maritime climates, such as north-west Scotland, where wind and rain are a particular problem.
• 12. Traditional apple trees
  A collection of traditional English and Scottish apple varieties from the Victorian era or earlier.
• 13. Fruit trees for a north-facing wall
  Fruit tree varieties that will tolerate the low-light and cold of a north-facing wall, allowing you to get a crop of fresh fruit even in this difficult situation.
• 14. Apple trees for Devon and Cornwall
  Apple trees that are suited to the mild damp climate of Devon and Cornwall.