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Originally Posted by Susie Have they got any dogs? I'm gonna be after a dog soon.  |
Will you go to Battersea?
As for orchards and old fruit varieties I think it's really sad that we've pretty much lost a lot of them. I'm hoping to do some orchard survey work ( and hunt the noble chafer beetle which loves rotting fruit wood)and you can get books to identify them or you can send the fruit away to be checked. We've lost so many orchards but some villages are even named after local fruit trees specific to that area. You can't get a decent apple in the supermarket and sometimes the ones we buy are up to a year old and have been kept in cold storage. I like russets fresh off the tree or Cox's or Worcester's (growing in grandparents garden). There's some lovely orchards around here and although it's nice the wildlife is left alone some of them are neglected too much.