Christmas Pippin® apple trees

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• Picking season: Late
• Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
• Flowering group: 3
• Awards: RHS AGM (current) 2014

Christmas Pippin is a new high-yielding Cox-style apple, discovered as a chance seedling tree.

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Christmas Pippin apple trees for sale

Choose a size - pot-grown

All our pot-grown trees are grown for us to our specification by the Frank P Matthews nursery.

• PG12-year bush-trained 11.5L pot-grown tree, M27 rootstock£64.00
  Very small tree (< 1.7m after 10 years)
  

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• PG2Premium cordon 12L pot-grown tree, M9 rootstock£62.00
  Small tree (1.5m-2.5m after 10 years)
  

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• PG32-year bush-trained 12L pot-grown tree, M26 rootstock£58.75
  Medium tree (2m-3m after 10 years)
  

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• PG42-year bush-trained 12L pot-grown tree, MM106 rootstock£58.75
  Large tree (3m-5m after 10 years)
  

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• PG5Premium half-standard 12L pot-grown tree, MM106 rootstock£64.00
  Large tree (3m-5m after 10 years)
  

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Choose a size - bare-root

• BR12-year bush-trained bare-root tree,M9 rootstock£45.25
  Small tree (1.5m-2.5m after 10 years)
  

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• BR2Cordon-trained bare-root tree,M9 rootstock£46.75
  Small tree (1.5m-2.5m after 10 years)
  

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• BR31-year bare-root tree,M26 rootstock£35.75
  Medium tree (2m-3m after 10 years)
  

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• BR42-year bush-trained bare-root tree,M26 rootstock£43.75
  Medium tree (2m-3m after 10 years)
  

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• BR52-year bare-root tree,M116 rootstock£43.00
  Medium tree (2m-3m after 10 years)
  

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• BR61-year bare-root tree,MM106 rootstock£35.75
  Large tree (3m-5m after 10 years)
  

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• BR72-year bare-root tree,MM106 rootstock£43.75
  Large tree (3m-5m after 10 years)
  

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• BR82-year bush-trained bare-root tree,MM106 rootstock£46.00
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Tree specification

Photos of trees as supplied | Tree sizes and forms

Next deliveries

Order now for delivery from week commencing 18th May.

Delivery charges

Delivery for a single tree starts at £9.95, it is calculated based on your postcode.

All about Christmas Pippin apple trees

Christmas Pippin is a new Cox-style apple variety introduced in 2011. Unusually for a modern apple variety, it is a genuine "pippin" apple, raised from seed and of unknown parentage.

Christmas Pippin is a very "more-ish" apple, with a definite apple flavour, juicy melting flesh and a thin skin - and it tastes exactly like an apple should. The flavour is essentially sweet, but with some sharpness too. It is bound to be popular with fans of Cox's Orange Pippin or similar varieties - and it is much easier to grow.

Growing and Training

Christmas Pippin is easy to grow, with better yields than Cox's Orange Pippin. It can be pollinated by most other apple varieties.

History

Christmas Pippin is a modern variety, first introduced in 2011, so you might expect it to be the result of a major university-led apple breeding programme. In fact the original tree was discovered growing beside a road near an orchard in Somerset, so it is a genuine seedling or "pippin" variety, perhaps from a motorist's discarded apple core. The parentage is unknown, but there is clearly an influence from Cox's Orange Pippin in its ancestry. The leaf shape has some resemblance to Gala (which itself is distantly related to Cox's Orange Pippin).

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Unlike many garden centres and online retailers, the vast majority of our fruit trees are grown in the UK. Find out more.

All our trees are certified under the Plant Healthy scheme, supervised by the Plant Health Alliance. Other stakeholders include Defra and the RHS. Find out more.

Guaranteed fruit trees

When you buy your fruit tree from Orange Pippin Fruit Trees we guarantee it for the first season in your garden while it gets established. If it doesn't grow successfully, we'll either replace it the following season or offer a refund, subject to some conditions. Find out more.

More about apple trees

Towards the end of September and into October we see late-season apple varieties beginning to ripen. Their longer ripening period typically means these varieties have the most interesting flavours.

Unlike mid and early season apples which are generally best eaten straight from the tree, many late-season varieties need to be stored in a fridge for a few weeks to mature before their flavours are at their peak. So if you want to be able to eat home-grown apples through the winter then late-season varieties are your best choice.

Some of the most famous English apple varieties fall into this category - including the classic Adams Pearmain, and the ancient Ashmead's Kernel with its peardrop flavours. We also find popular modern varieties such as Spartan, Red Falstaff, Fiesta, and Kidd's Orange Red all coming to perfection at this time of year.