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Orchard Blossom Season is Almost Here

Spring-time in the orchard and beautiful blossom buds are about to burst into life. So why is it such a tense and worrying time..?

Published March 23, 2022
Categorised as Gallery Tagged apple, blossom, cherry, Morello, pear, Plot #79, quince

Gallery: Impressions of Four Cotswold Orchards

Here’s a brief taster of four orchards that I visited in early June (longer write-ups to follow in due course).

Published June 19, 2021
Categorised as Feature Articles, Gallery Tagged Hidcote, mature trees, orchard photography, Painswick Rococo, Snowshill Manor, Stroud Museum, veteran trees

Gallery: Pear Blossom at Ordsall Hall, Spring 2021

Enjoy this selection of photos of the Hall’s heritage pear trees in full bloom a couple of weeks ago.

Published May 8, 2021
Categorised as Gallery Tagged Ordsall Hall, pear, pear blossom, spring

Gallery: Winter in the Orchard at Quarry Bank

A few chilly images of the Apprentice House orchard at Quarry Bank Mill in Styal.

Published February 12, 2021
Categorised as Gallery, Orchard Work Tagged orchard imagery, Quarry Bank, winter, winter pruning

Gallery: Winter in the Orchard at Ordsall Hall

A few pics, taken in haste before my fingers froze, on a bitterly cold January morning,.

Published January 20, 2021
Categorised as Gallery Tagged orchard imagery, Ordsall Hall, winter

Gallery: Harrison’s Nurseries Catalogue, 1912

In which a few colour plates from an old plant catalogue leads to an hour’s worth of speculative detective work.

Published January 18, 2021
Categorised as Gallery Tagged Harrisons Nurseries, old fruit pictures, Storr & Harrison Nursery, vintage advertising

Gallery: Top-Fruit Blossom, Spring 2020

2020 has been a rather excellent year for fruit blossom. Here’s a gallery of some examples I’ve seen in various places.

Published May 1, 2020
Categorised as Feature Articles, Gallery Tagged apple, blossom, pear, plum

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Fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) causing classic bacterial ooze symptoms on apple fruit. This grower had good overall control utilizing Maryblyt to predict infection events & inform pesticide application timings. Controlling this disease during bloom is critical.

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Springtime #IPM in the orchard ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ› Early season insect activity including spring feeding caterpillar, leafcurling midge, mullein bug and more. Signs of cedar apple rust galls on nearby eastern red cedar kicking off this seasonโ€™s disease cycle #onapples

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