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 future I will have to go round all my cordon fruit trees with a paint brush, buzzing as I go! Our Bramley apple tree was here when we came and is now rather large, far to big for me to pollinate it, but this tree at least has had a reasonable amount of fruit which we picked the other day.
