Robert White gives an overview of the Friends of Brogdale Special General Meeting
On 28 April at a Special Meeting of the Friends of Brogdale Horticultural Trust Friends were asked to support or reject an amendment to their Constitution that added the words ‘whilst pursued at Brogdale’.
The petitioners were in effect asking Friends to reaffirm [...]
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Posted in Fruit Questions on April 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Any advice on dealing with ants? They are a major pest for fruit trees - because they encourage and protect aphids, and unlike slugs and wasps are very difficult to eradicate.
Richard Borrie
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Posted in Fruit Questions on April 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I am trying to find an English apple with the same taste and texture as a Braeburn. I live in the East Riding of Yorkshire and I am thinking of planting a couple of the trees if there are any suggestions.
Mark Crisp
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Helen Walton has sent us the following comment.
I saw on your blog something about the national fruit collection being moved. Two or three years ago I visited the fruit collection when it was at Faversham when all the blossom was out and I think it was one of the prettiest pictures I have ever seen, [...]
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Posted in Articles on April 19, 2007 | No Comments »
In response to the article on Mormon Apricots by Clive Simms on the main web-site we have received news from Marc Camargo that these are available from his nursery in Oregon. No use unfortunately for us in the UK but for gardeners in the US contact fruit-tree.com nursery - http://www.fruit-tree.com
Joan Morgan
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We have received this comment from Brian Self of Maidstone
I was sorry that the prepared edition of Fruit News could not be published and sent to Friends of Brogdale. Perhaps your excellent new ‘Fruit Forum’ will carry a similar range of material and be a substitute?
Brian Self
I hope so Brian; we would like as [...]
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Georgina Connors has contacted us with the following inquiry:
‘Is there a list of orchards etc in the Midlands or south of England suitable to take growing children round? I have been told that the present site of the national fruit collection has been bought by a builder and it is being wound [...]
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Posted in Fruit Tips on April 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Adrian Baggaley who gardens near Nottingham gives some tips on controlling wasps
On a scale of one to ten, the slug and the wasp must vie for pole position as the gardener’s top pest, one being the bane of the vegetable gardener and the other that of the fruit grower. Slugs can be controlled by night-time [...]
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Posted in Articles on April 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A contribution from Howard Stringer, who gardens in Surrey in the south of England
There are many scares in the press about the apple growing no longer being commercially possible in the south of England in years to come and we have all heard of the foresighted man who has planted an olive grove. But is [...]
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