My Lewes weekend apple harvest
My little apple tree has been a source of pleasure all year and this weekend its season reached its climax with an unusually large amount of bright red fruit ready for picking here in my Lewes, UK, garden. This is…
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My lily-flowered apple tree.
On a grey day in Lewes, I was cheered by my small apple tree deciding to sprout lily flowers as well as a good potential harvest of rosy little apples. Was it magic or was it one of my lilies…
Tempted by apples in a Lewes garden.
My small apple tree here in my Lewes garden has finally offered up these deliciously tempting fruits as August and Summer begins to wave us goodbye. The fruit, variety Croquella, is an early herald for Autumn and its rosiness tempers…
The apples and lilies of my Lewes high summer
My garden has had a change of mood since I went away for the weekend – lilies and apples, exotic fruition and a few welcome hints of high summer.
Cooking apples straight from my Lewes garden.
Yesterday was my birthday, mine and Bruce Springsteen’s, so it seemed appropriate somehow to harvest my Bramley Seedling cooking apples…well I am sure Bruce would appreciate a good apple pie – I know I do and my little Bramley espalier…
Bramley’s Seedling cooking apples are an English phenomenon – their apple pies make living in England worthwhile.
I took this picture of my Bramley’s Seedling apple tree just before I went off on holiday a few weeks ago feeling hopeful that my first attempt at growing an espalier fruit tree would succeed as, in its second year…