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New apple orchard for Gloucestershire

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January 5, 2012 by admin Leave a Comment

Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust is creating a new fruit orchard using 60 local variety apple, pear and plum trees at the Trust’s Vell Mill nature …
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Filed Under: Apples, News Tagged With: Apple Orchard, Chairmen, Cheltenham, Community Fundraiser, Fruit Orchard, Fruit Tree Varieties, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, Jeffries, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Local Community, Mistletoe, Nature Reserve, Newent, Orchards, Pippin, Plum Trees, Ryder, Trickle, Vell, Woodpecker


Over 365 varieties of cider apples grown in UK

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September 8, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment
Over 365 cidre apples are grown in the UK. - credit NACM

Over 29 new varieties of cider apple have been created following a selection and propagation process that started in 1984. With many being harvested …
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Filed Under: Apples, Featured Tagged With: Apple Juice, Apple Trees, Apple Varieties, Astringency, Cider Apple, Cider Apples, Cider Maker, Cider Makers, Copas, Eleni, Gilly, Juice Quality, Leading Authority, Lizzy, Nacm, Ongoing Research, Orchards, Pomologist, Prince William, Royal Connections, Shamrock, Tannin, Three Counties, Varieties Of Apple, Varieties Of Apples, Vicky


West Dean apple fair 2011

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August 31, 2011 by admin 1 Comment
Over 100 varieties of apples will be on display

Over 100 varieties of apples will be on display at the West Dean College and Gardens Apple Affair in October. Experts will also be available to …
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Filed Under: Apples, Featured, News Tagged With: Apple Experts, Apple Games, Apple Growers, Apple Recipes, Arts Crafts, Assistance Dogs, Bouncy Castle, Chichester West Sussex, Cold Winter, College Specialising, Concessions, cox, Dean, Fruit Group, Good Year, John Nash, Music Room, Nursery Schools, Old Library, Peek, Pollination, Reception Hall, Related Games, Rosemary Moon, Six Miles, Spells, Ticket Holders, Twists, Varieties Of Apples, Walled Kitchen Garden, Warm Periods, West Dean College, West Sussex


National Trust feature Medlars at Chelsea

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May 16, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment
Medlar trees for NTGC stand at Cheslea 2011

The National Trust will launch their new Garden Collection at Chelsea 2011 and the stand will feature old varieties, including the ancient …
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Filed Under: Featured, Fruit & Veg, News Tagged With: British Institution, Chelsea Flower Show, Conservation Work, Dream Project, Furniture Oak, Garden Space, Greenhouses, Heritage Varieties, Hot Weather, Lanhydrock, Licensed Designs, London College, Medlar Trees, National Trust Properties, Oak Leaf, Orchards, Outdoor Furniture, Outdoor Structures, Rhs Chelsea Flower Show, Scotts Of Thrapston, Summerhouses, Traditional Crafts


Return of the Doddin Apple

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January 26, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment
Unpruned and unfed Doddin

The small, sweet Doddin (Daddin) apple is a native of  Worcestershire and thanks to a few dedicated people, is set to make a comeback. What is the …
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Filed Under: Apples, Featured Tagged With: Apple Harvest, Apple Tree, Bite Size, Brogdale, Clay Soils, Endeavour, Golf Ball, Pip, Preservation Society, Profit Organisation, Quot, Rootstock, Specimen Numbers, Specimens, Sweet Apples, Sweet Fruits, Virtues, Wartime England, Worcestershire England, World War Ii


Help available for orchard management

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December 27, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment
A red apple

Natural England hope that a new guide will curb the demise of the English fruit orchard. Traditional orchards are a classic feature of the English …
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Filed Under: Featured, Fruit & Veg Tagged With: Advice Guides, Alarming Rate, Bat Species, Biodiversity Action Plan, Bird Species, Bullfinch, Chafer Beetle, English Landscape, Flora And Fauna, Fruit Orchard, Fruit Trees, Information Note, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Orchard Environments, Orchard Management, Orchards, Priority Status, Rich Biodiversity, Tree Selection, Uk Biodiversity Action Plan


Looking for Medlars

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November 28, 2010 by admin 2 Comments
Common Medlar

Medlars are one of our ancient British fruits making a come back. During the middle ages, people would have been very familiar with this strange …
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Filed Under: Featured, Medlars & Quinces Tagged With: Bbc, Bbc Countryfile, Christmas, Christmas Table, Cold Cuts, Comments Section, Commercial Cultivation, Finished Product, Food Producers, Fruits, Handy, Hundred Years, Medlar Jelly, Medlar Trees, Medlars, Middle Ages, Orchards, Pheasant, Turkey, Wiltshire


WW2 Apples from Rimini

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September 26, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment
Apple orchard at the Ukrainian Chapel, Dumfries

A small orchard of apple trees is a poignant reminder of the lives torn apart by war and a new life forged in a foreign land. During World War …
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Filed Under: Featured, Fruit & Veg Tagged With: Apple Trees, apples, China And The United States, Custodians, Designations, Dumfries, Europe, European Commission, German Army, Italtrade, Italy During World War Ii, Lockerbie, Matchbox, Matchboxes, Old Trees, Orchard, Poignant Reminder, Portal, Pow, Remnant, Rimini Italy, Scotland, Seeds, Ukrainian, World War Ii, Ww2


First Heritage Apple Crop

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September 6, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment
Cockpit apple

Our three year old heritage apple trees have yielded their first fruits this year and the taste is out of this world!. September has arrived and …
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Filed Under: Featured, Fruit & Veg Tagged With: Apple Crop, Apple Orchard, Apple Trees, Apple Varieties, Blemish, Bridget, Devon, Eating Apples, First Fruits, Flavour, Flavours, Freezer, Fungicides, Mulch, Northern Climate, Pesticides, Rootstock, Scotch, Skin Imperfections, Supermarket Varieties


Seed search in Wales

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July 18, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment
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Vegetable gardeners in Wales are being urged to preserve their heirloom varieties and make them more widely available. The Dyfi Valley Seed Savers …
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Filed Under: Featured, Vegetables Tagged With: Allotment, Appearance Characteristics, Blight, Coventry, Dyfi Valley, Email, Garden Vegetable, Heirloom Varieties, Heritage Seed Library, Rural Development Agency, Salads, Seed Savers, Seed Search, Seed Swaps, Seeds, Sustainable Future, Vegetable Gardeners, Vegetable Growers, Vegetable Varieties, Vegetables, Welsh


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