Heritage orchard

In February of 2014, the Friends planted an orchard: thirty eight heritage apple trees of fourteen different varieties, in the southern end of the park. They have really beautiful names:

[1] Malus sylvestris (crab apple) [2] Malus domestica ;

[3] Beauty of Bath; [4] Roundway Magnum; [5] Star of Devon.

One of the Egremont Russets was mown down by an over-enthusiastic contractor and was replaced by an unnamed apple seedling, grown in the allotments, but otherwise all the trees are doing well. In 2021 we planted crab apples (Malus sylvestris) as pollinators, to encourage fruiting; in 2022 all the trees survived a grass fire, and this year the crop has been so heavy that a couple of trees were damaged by the weight.

Apple pie, anyone?