Allington Pippin Eating/Cooking Apple Trees

Delivered by Mail Order from the Nursery with a 1 Year Guarantee

Allington Pippins are Dual purpose eating apples with a lovely bitter-sweet pineapple flavour, which also cook pretty well.

Browse our full range of apple trees for sale, see the full variety of fruit trees available online or read our guide to buying the right apple tree.

These trees produce an abundance of attractive pale yellow fruits flushed with rosy red, with a juicy cream coloured flesh.

Excellent as an eating apple, it has a sharp bitter-sweet pineapple flavour which mellows when stored. When used as a cooking apple, it holds its shape well and keeps its delicious flavour.

It has a really high vitamin C content too, and is great for juicing and cider making. A great all rounder!

Characteristics:

Fruit: Eating. Striped. Medium sized. Bitter-sweet flavour.
Pollination: Group C. Partially Self-fertile
Harvesting: October - stores well.
Characteristics: Spur fruiting, hardy, biennial tendency
Suitable for: Training, freestanding, organic cultivation

Growing Allington Pippin

Best planted in a sunny, sheltered spot. They can be planted as a specimen into a lawn, or lining a driveway where the lovely blossom can be enjoyed in spring.
If you're looking for suitable pollination partners, you can browse our full range of apple trees here.

Look out for: The blossom has some susceptibility to frost damage so avoid planting in frost pockets, and can suffer from mildew. However, it has a good resistance to scab and is suitable for wet regions.

Did you know

Allington Pippin was originally called 'South Lincoln Pippin' and was bred around 1884 by nurseryman Thomas Laxton. It is a cross between the 'King of the pippins' and the 'Cox's orange pippin' It was renamed in 1894 by George Bunyard after the village of Allington near Maidstone in Kent.

How Apple Trees are Measured & Delivered:

Our fruit trees are delivered in up to 3 shapes and you can also buy selected apple trees as ready made cordons.

Maiden: This unbranched tree is the smallest starting size. You can train maidens into espaliers and cordons.
Cordon: Discovery trees are partial tip-bearers, so they are still suitable for cordons & espaliers.
Bush: This is a style of freestanding tree with a short trunk of about 60cms. It will grow to about 3 metres tall.
Half-Standard: This is a freestanding style that will grow into a full sized, "normal" apple tree, about 4 metres tall.

How to plant Allington Pippin trees:

Bare root trees are planted between late autumn and early spring, containerized plants all year round although winter is preferable. Plants like a sunny sheltered site with a well drained soil.

Dig a hole no deeper than the roots but around three times the diameter of the root ball. Fork over the bottom and add in some well rotted compost or manure, as well as a dressing of Rootgrow mcycorrhizal fungi..

Place the tree in the hole and back fill with soil, treading down carefully to firm into place. Stake in the direction of the prevailing wind.

Keep well watered in dry weather and top dress with a general-purpose fertiliser as the plant comes into growth in spring. Prune trained apples in summer, and standards in winter.

Spacing Allington Pippin apple trees:

Freestanding bushes: 12-18 feet (4-6 metres) between trees and rows.
Freestanding half-standards: 18-30 feet (6-10 metres) between trees and rows.
In general, allow 1 more metre between rows than there is between each tree in the row.

Watch our video on how to plant a fruit tree for full instructions on planting a bush or half-standard sized tree.

If you are growing a maiden sized apple tree into a freestanding tree, a bamboo cane is enough support.
If you are growing a cordon or espalier, you will need to install training wires to support them.
Remember to water establishing apple trees during dry weather for at least a year after planting.

Apple Tree Planting Accessories:

For bush and half standard apple trees, our tree planting pack includes a wooden stake & rubber tie to support the tree and a biodegradable mulch mat with pegs, which protects the soil at the base of your tree from drying out and stops weeds from sprouting.

Read our full terms and conditions here.

Delivery: Our standard delivery charges are:

Small box (Orders containing only seedlings or rooted cuttings) £7.20 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £60 inc VAT)
Standard box (Bareroots up to 1.2m) £11.40 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £60 inc VAT)
Large box (Pots up to and incl. 7.5L) £15.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £100 inc VAT)
Trees & Hedging (Bareroots & trees 1.2m+) £18.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £120 inc VAT)
Pallets (Root balls, large pots, trees etc) £60.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £240 inc VAT)

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
We will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.

Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.

Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.

Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week in summer if there is no heavy rain.

Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.

Misc	Self fertile
Shade	Full Sun
Soil	Good, Well Drained
Pollination Group	Pollination Group C
Fruiting	Mid Season Fruiting
Type	Cooking, Eating

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