Gallery: Blueberry Foliage in Autumn
All the colours of autumn in one. What’s not to love about blueberry plants at this time of year?
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Gallery: Allotment Apples, Early Autumn 2026 Edition
A quick stroll around the apple trees on my plot, to see which varieties of apple I can look forward to picking this Autumn.
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Gallery: Fruit Blossom, Early Spring 2026 Edition
Early blossom has been hit hard by a cold snap around these parts, but not before I snapped a few photos.
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Gallery: The Wondrous ‘Howgate Wonder’, Champion Apple of 2025
Once again, the largest, most impressive apple that I’ve harvested this year is the mighty, mighty H.W.
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Gallery – Autumn Sunshine on Allotment Apples
A morning visit to the allotment just happened to coincide with a glorious burst of autumn sunshine, so I snapped a few apple pics to celebrate.
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Gallery: Autumn Fruit Tree Foliage
It’s been an unexpectedly good year for autumn colour in the orchards, and here are a few photo-highlights.
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Gallery: Impressions of Three West Midlands Orchards
I’ve been on my travels again, visiting three more gardens with rather lovely orchard and fruit-growing spaces.
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Gallery: Winter Morning, Linear Orchard, Kitchen Garden, NT Quarry Bank
I do love the way the winter sun, low on the horizon, catches the trees in this particular part of the garden.
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Gallery: Winter in Two Orchards
It’s been cold this week, so of course I took a few photos of fruit trees draped in snow.
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Gallery: Early Summer Apple Progress (#NTQBfruit)
The fruit trees at Quarry Bank are producing well this year, too well in some cases. Here’s a quick look at what they’re up to.
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Lifecycle of an Apple, From Bud to Blossom to Fruit
Follow the lifecycle of a single apple bud from dormancy to harvest, in this series of 40+ photos.
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Gallery: Malus ‘Red Sentinel’ in Winter
A few snowy and icy days provided an opportunity for some lovely, wintry photos of a rather superb crab apple.
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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..?
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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).
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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.
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Gallery: Winter in the Orchard at Quarry Bank
A few chilly images of the Apprentice House orchard at Quarry Bank Mill in Styal.
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Gallery: Winter in the Orchard at Ordsall Hall
A few pics, taken in haste before my fingers froze, on a bitterly cold January morning,.
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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.
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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.
