Hello – what a year this is proving for fruit. In 18 years in this industry – I have NEVER seen fruit trees so laden. Are your trees nearly bent double??
Mine certainly are – and that is after all the careful management and thinning I put into them!!!!
Everything is just stuffed – from plums to pears – to Quinces.
With the gales earlier in the week – there has been some branch breakage – but generally the fruit has held on pretty well – although it may look initally alarming to see some of the branches weeping to the ground – they will spring back up into shape once the fruit is picked -and if they do not – you can still remove them when doing your annual winter prune.
Why is there such a bounteous harvest this year??
A combination of strong quality blossom – followed by an excellent growing season – with just the right amount of sun and rainfall has kept things pretty rosy for them.
Tomorrow – SUNDAY 19th – we are exhibiting at the PLANT HERITAGE PLANT FAIR at HELMINGHAM HALL. This is our one and only forray into the Plant Sale world- simply being too busy to attend most of them.
This is an excellent sale – it is open from 10.00 – 4.30 – Helmingham is a fabulous site – on the B1077 just outside Debenham – it is Brown – Tourist Board Signed – an ancient mansion with a fabulous garden and park – last year there were 46 stands with different nurseries – selling everything you could ever want for your garden!!
We will be there with our fruit trees and shrubs – so do come and say Hello!!!
UNTIL NEXT TIME – OR SEE YOU AT THE PLANT SALE!!
RICHARD
It is still early – and over the next month – every day – new tints and colours are revealed – in many ways it is the HARVEST period of the nursery – the farmers have their golden fields of corn – and here at CROWN NURSERY – we have our AUTUMN COLOUR and the ripening APPLES – or perhaps I am just an old romantic at heart!!
