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| Orchard at mid-summer |
The orchard has had a couple of years to settle now, and it is starting to take shape. The apple trees are doing okay and this year will have their first small crops (Pilot will probably be the best). On of the pair of pear trees has six or seven fruit but somehow the other has none; at least the orange spot was not bad this year. The mirabelle is covered in fruit and the quince tree is also doing well. But the peaches are rubbish - they but get a hideous leaf-curling disease every year and need to be swapped out. And one apple tree just died.
The bank of the stream gets cleared back to the surface of the soil each November (once the birds have finished whatever they are up to in the brambles), and then happily grows back to wilderness through spring and summer. It was home to a weasel/stoat/ermine for a while.
And if you ever wondered what the garden proper looks like, here's a part of the border.
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| Garden border |
