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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…