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Category: Gallery

Gallery: 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.

Published March 28, 2023
Categorised as Feature Articles, Gallery, Top Fruit Morphology, Top Six Tagged apple, bud, development, fruiting, herefordshire russet, morphology

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.

Published December 23, 2022
Categorised as Feature Articles, Gallery Tagged crab apple, Malus, Red Sentinel, RHS Bridgewater, winter

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
  1. Darren T on Decision Time For My ‘Air-Pot Mini-Orchard’ Apple TreesNovember 26, 2023

    Nope, absolutely perfect timing :)

  2. Darren T on Decision Time For My ‘Air-Pot Mini-Orchard’ Apple TreesNovember 26, 2023

    Wow. Amanda, thank you so much, that is *amazing* advice. I was planning to spend hours and hours researching the…

  3. Amanda on Decision Time For My ‘Air-Pot Mini-Orchard’ Apple TreesNovember 26, 2023

    sorry- that was just a tad late

  4. Amanda on Decision Time For My ‘Air-Pot Mini-Orchard’ Apple TreesNovember 26, 2023

    Also, regarding planting in pots and exhaustion of nutrients and deterioration of soil structure, I'll share what I've done with…

  5. Darren T on My Fruit Harvest Highlights – 2023 EditionNovember 22, 2023

    You're welcome Russ! Best of luck with your grafting experiments, please do keep me posted.

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