Apple ‘Cox’s orange pippin’

‘Cox’s Orange Pippin’ is widely considered the finest English dessert apple, raised in Buckinghamshire in 1825. Medium-sized fruits ripen orange-red flushed over yellow skin, with firm crisp creamy-yellow flesh and a proper complex aromatic flavour that’s led other breeders to cross with it countless times.

Can be a little tricky in wet or cold gardens, prefers a sheltered warm site with good drainage. Not self-fertile, so plant with a compatible pollination partner. Fruits ripen in October.

Plant in full sun in fertile, well-drained soil in a sheltered position. Winter-prune for framework, summer-prune trained forms. Susceptible to scab and canker in damp gardens.

A proper heritage choice for a kitchen garden, an orchard in a warm county, or a trained espalier on a sunny wall.