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Tag Archives: Apples
Jade plums and butterfly leaves.
Yesterday I was summer pruning the fruit trees up at the top of the garden, hopefully forming fruiting spurs ready for next year. All the little trees are of the Minarette variety, a long slender trunk which is then has … Continue reading
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Tagged Apples, brimstone butterfly, cooking apples, damsons, Fruit trees, Pears
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Berry delicious.
Autumn berries are ripening up all around us, so far the birds haven’t eaten many, but then, it hasn’t been too cold yet to kill off all the insects which they feed on. Maybe it is too soon to say, … Continue reading
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Tagged Apples, Arum, autumn, Berberis, berries, blackberry, Cotoneaster, Elderberry, feeding birds, Hawthorn, Honeysuckle, Pyracantha, sloe
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An Apple a Day.
With such a cold wet spring and summer, bees were in short supply when all the fruit trees needed pollinating. We had plenty of blossom, in fact masses of it, but hadn’t realised that the flowers weren’t being pollinated, in … Continue reading