Fruit Trees

A little juicy fruit …. raspberries, currants white red pink & black, gooseberries red green & yellow, and blackberries, boysenberries, wineberries, cranberries and honeyberries. Well the last few, just a glance… Oh – and the Veitchberry too

Categories Acid-loving plants, Fruit Trees, General comment, jobs to do in ..., Propagation, Pruning, RHS WIsleyLeave a Comment on A little juicy fruit …. raspberries, currants white red pink & black, gooseberries red green & yellow, and blackberries, boysenberries, wineberries, cranberries and honeyberries. Well the last few, just a glance… Oh – and the Veitchberry too

A little tour around the fruit garden at RHS Wisley, where all manner of soft fruit are left either au naturel or trained into fans and cordon, tied and regimented into wires and pruned carefully for the maximum harvest and healthiest plants. I've a little reading to do but have picked out the following articles…

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February made me shiver….

Categories Alpine, Bedding, Bulbs, Camellias, Clematis, Dahlias, David Austin roses, Evergreen shrubs, Fragrant plants, Fruit Trees, Garden Design, General comment, Grasses, Hellebore, herbaceous, jobs to do in ..., Lawn Care, Pruning, Roses, Shrubs, Snowdrops (Galanthus), spring flowering, Spring Garden, Vegetables1 Comment on February made me shiver….

I am dreaming of Spring, mostly. There is a great deal to admire in February so I worry that we might wish the month away without appreciating what is looking - or giving - its best right now, or the quiet simplicity of our gardens stripped bare of all of the spring and summer fireworks…

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Standen – A meeting with some Remarkable Espalier Apple Trees

Categories Architectural Plants, Fruit Trees, Kitchen Garden, National Trust Gardens, Open to the public, Spring Garden, Winter Garden1 Comment on Standen – A meeting with some Remarkable Espalier Apple Trees

I visited Standen at the beginning of April 2013 and took these photographs then. March, as I recall, had been a frozen tundra of a month with temperatures barely reaching about freezing day or night. The first daffodils were only just coming through, so different to the early Spring enjoyed last year. I am minded…

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Love your Apples and Pears: Winter Fruit Tree Pruning – Formative, Regular, Renovation and Rejuvenation

Categories Architectural Plants, Fruit Trees, Garden Design, General comment, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, RHS WIsley, Wildlife gardening, Winter Garden6 Comments on Love your Apples and Pears: Winter Fruit Tree Pruning – Formative, Regular, Renovation and Rejuvenation

Care of apples and pears and a winter pruning guide   We are looking at fruit trees - apples and pears just now - and specifically winter care, pruning and management. Young trees, old trees, productive trees and lost souls alike. We have a lot of ground to cover here but don't panic, we can…

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Up the Apples and Pears – A Fruity Tour of RHS Wisley: Fruit Demonstration Garden, Fruit Collection and Fruit Fields

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A tour earlier this week around the Fruit displays at RHS Wisley in Surrey - the Fruit Demonstration Garden and Fruit Collections showing a variety of trained forms especially of Apples and Pears, but also a whole range of stone fruit and soft fruit. I moved on into the extensive Fruit Fields. The Fruit Fields…

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Winter pruning of Apples and Pears – a very fruitful day at Earth Trust in Oxfordshire

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On my way this morning to Oxfordshire, just off the quiet M40 motorway at J7 and into the great quiet expanse of this beautiful county. Windmills, golden stone, thatched rooves. Pretty as a Picture. And a note for a stop-over next time I venture this way, or perhaps over to Waterperry Gardens which are not…

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Teddington Gardener Review of the Year – December 2014 – Petersham Nurseries, RHS Wisley (twice), Hampton Court (Cabbages & Kings)….

Categories Abstract Photography, Alpine, Architectural Plants, Bedding, Camellias, container gardening, Cutting Garden, Fruit Trees, Garden Design, General comment, House plants, Indoor gardening, Open to the public, Petersham Nurseries, Plants for a shady garden?, Rhododendron & Azalea, RHS WIsley, Seasonal colour, Vegetables, Winter GardenLeave a Comment on Teddington Gardener Review of the Year – December 2014 – Petersham Nurseries, RHS Wisley (twice), Hampton Court (Cabbages & Kings)….

December - ending with a severe chill, here in London, and snow elsewhere- but still much colour to be found. Hellebores and winter cherry blossom, Cotoneaster, Camellias and Anemones, early Narcissus and Hyacinths, some tropical loveliness in the Glasshouse at Wisley, Cabbages and Kings at Hampton Court and a bevvy of Heraldic Beasts. Happy New…

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Teddington Gardener Review of the Year – September 2014 – The Savill Garden, Kew Gardens, Nymans, Wakehurst Place, RHS Wisley and Petersham Nurseries. Summer Crescendo.

Categories Abstract Photograpy, Alpine, Architectural Plants, Bedding, Bulbs, Clematis, Climbing plants, container gardening, Cutting Garden, David Austin roses, Fragrant plants, Fruit Trees, Grasses, herbaceous, Hydrangea, late summer border, National Trust Gardens, Nymans, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, Plants for a shady garden?, plants for roses, RHS WIsley, Roses, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Savill Garden, Seasonal colour, Shrubs, Summer garden, The Savill Garden, Travel broadens the mind, Trees, Trees for smaller gardensLeave a Comment on Teddington Gardener Review of the Year – September 2014 – The Savill Garden, Kew Gardens, Nymans, Wakehurst Place, RHS Wisley and Petersham Nurseries. Summer Crescendo.

The Savill Garden, Kew Gardens, Wakehurst Place, Petersham Nurseries, RHS Wisley. Plenty of Hydrangeas to admire, roses of course, lots, dahlias, colchicums, late-summer borders stars such as asters and rudbeckias, orchards....  Altogether much to admire!

Teddington Gardener Review of the Year – August 2014 – Kew Gardens, Heather on the Moors and an Agricultural Show in North Yorkshire, Covent Garden Flower Market & Petersham Nurseries. Summer marches on…

Categories Abstract Photograpy, Acid-loving plants, Alpine, Architectural Plants, Bedding, Clematis, Climbing plants, Cutting Garden, David Austin roses, Fragrant plants, Fruit Trees, herbaceous, Hydrangea, late summer border, my projects, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, Petersham Nurseries, plants for roses, Roses, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Seasonal colour, Summer garden, Travel broadens the mind, Vegetables, Wildlife gardeningLeave a Comment on Teddington Gardener Review of the Year – August 2014 – Kew Gardens, Heather on the Moors and an Agricultural Show in North Yorkshire, Covent Garden Flower Market & Petersham Nurseries. Summer marches on…

Kew Gardens, Petersham Nurseries, North Yorkshire, Covent Garden Flower Market and my own projects. A busy month but time off in the beautiful North Yorkshire Moors. Glorious (have I said that before at all?)