| Re: Apples and Pears
I would recommend a visit to Brogdale, the national fruit 'library', near Faversham in Kent. It is an absolutely fascinating place, where you can go on tours led by very knowledgeable people around the orchards of every variety of fruit trees you remember from your childhood, plus new ones. They also sell the fruits in season, and do talks, I believe, on grafting and all sorts of stuff like that, and they have cider festivals and such like , I think too. Plum season is worth a visit! And you can buy fruit bushes and trees, cordons, etc, and can get all the old varieties. I've never done it, I've not had a garden before. |