Posted in News on July 16, 2008 | No Comments »
I found the article on the origins of the Tayberry fascinating. Last summer I made delicious freezer jam from Tayberries. It is popular in Western Washington, and, as Derek Jennings who bred the Tayberry noted, there is a bed and breakfast named after the Tayberry in my home town of Puyallup, Washington.
We are in berry [...]
Posted in News on July 8, 2008 | No Comments »
‘Cherry orchards of Kent’ is the subject trailed for Radio 4 ‘Food Programme’ for Sunday 13 July (12.32ish pm; on-air repeat Monday 14th, 4pm); otherwise ‘listen again’ via i-Player.
The ‘trail’ also said that the programme would be ‘finding out why we should all be signing up for a campaign to aid our cherries’.
Jeff Bull
To [...]
Posted in News on July 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A report of an olive tree fruiting in Suffolk was recently published on our main web site, but this is a youngster compared with the tree at the Chelsea Physic Garden in London, which was probably planted over 70 years ago. It has fruited from time to time and in 2006 produced a bumper crop [...]
Posted in News on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is a picture of an apple tree beside the railway line at Three Bridges Station in West Sussex taken in April 2008. A small tree with branches cascading down the railway bank it was covered in apples in April and May. The tree flowered in April. The apples in the sun were beginning to [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections, News on April 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Taynton Squash perry pear blossom in the National Fruit Collections
The new arrangements for the management of the National Fruit Collections at Brogdale came into operation today. On 1 April the curatorship of the National Fruit Collections under the Defra contract passed to the University of Reading and responsibility for their day to day [...]
Posted in News on February 9, 2008 | 7 Comments »
There are sloes just coming into blossom in the hedges in Kent, the ornamental pear, Pyrus calleryana has a few flowers, I have daffodils out and primroses, yet it is only the first week in February. It looks as if it will be an early year for fruit blossom. The myrobalan or cherry plum is [...]
Posted in News on February 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
According to an article in the Sunday Times (3 February), researchers in New Zealand claim that the production of antipodean apples uses less energy – even after being transported 12,000 miles – than the same amount of apples grown in Britain. A study by Lincoln University in New Zealand calculated that ‘a ton of New [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections, News on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
As visitors to Fruit Forum will know Defra has decided that the National Fruit Collections will remain at Brogdale. Defra awarded the management contract for the Collections from April 2008 to the University of Reading, who will work in partnership with FAST (Farm Advisory Service Team) now based at Brogdale and Brogdale Collections, the [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections, News on November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Readers of Fruit Forum will know of the legacy of nearly £400,000 received by the Brogdale Horticultural Trust sometime between 1 March 2006 and 28 February 2007 and bequeathed by a Friend (see below).
Today’s Faversham News (15 November) has published the following comments on this legacy made by the Trust’s chief executive:
‘Lady Jane Garrett expressed [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections, News on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
The Friends of the National Fruit Collections at Brogdale have just sent another 1748 signatures to Defra urging that the Collections be retained at Brogdale. With the 400 plus signatures which were sent in July, this brings the total to over 2000.
Some of these signatures were gathered at events run at Brogdale over the last [...]
