Showing posts with label Apples. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apples. Show all posts

Saturday, 25 August 2012

Fruit

The top fruit hasn't done at all well this year - the apples, pears and plums all suffered through there're not being many pollinators about back in the cold and wet at blossom time. The only exception has been the little cherry plums which were blossoming during the heatwave in March. The blackbirds and thrushes carry most of them away but it's not as though I can eat them all. And the trees are not completely bare; having less helps me appreciate what I have got all the more. How right on is that?

With the exception of the gooseberries the soft fruit have been as abundant as ever. The summer raspberries have given way to the autumn crop, the grapes are about ready and the wild blackberries never have a problem fruiting - and their flowers are so useful for the bees and butterflies.

Holly blue on blackberry flower
 
Grapes ready to nibble


Monday, 29 August 2011

Apples, rosehips and blackberries

Signs that autumn isn't far away.





Saturday, 16 July 2011

Orchard in July

Speaks for itself really.





Sunday, 17 April 2011

Monday, 20 September 2010

Apples

Am I eating apples? Yes I am.


Sunday, 2 May 2010

In the orchard

Cherry blossom

Apple blossom

If dandelions were half-a-crown...

Thursday, 21 January 2010

Winter jobs

Now the snow's gone I can crack on with some jobs on the plot. I've pruned the apples, gooseberries, raspberries and grapes, now I'm getting on with clearing a few brambles.

Apple trees pruned.

Sunday, 30 August 2009

Saturday, 25 April 2009

Sunday, 28 September 2008

Apples

I'm picking these now; there's three trees - a cooker, an eater and a russet - although I don't know the names of the varieties.


Saturday, 8 September 2007

Sunday, 29 April 2007

Sunday, 23 October 2005

Saturday, 24 September 2005