Well, yes, but again it's about logical grouping. They're orthogonal in a narrow sense, as adjectival descriptions, but there is a logical hierarchical grouping

Well, yes, but again it's about logical grouping. They're orthogonal in a narrow sense, as adjectival descriptions, but there is a logical hierarchical grouping that distinguishes between red and green apples as entities. In what everyday scenario would you need to characterise an apple in the "fresh apples" group as being specifically 'red'? It would be far more common to characterise an apple of the "red apple" variety as specifically being fresh.