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Brogdale Apple Grafts

Suffolk Show 2005

Our New Production Area for Trained Fruit

 

Preparing for the newly trained fruit trees.

Richard & Liz

We hold a DEFRA issued plant passport with Fireblight Free Buffer Zone status. This means that our trees can be taken to all parts of Europe, even those which are deemed as Fireblight Free Zones. Our Plant Passport no. is UK/EW 9562ZP-A,E,F,FI,I,IRL,LV,LT,P,SK,SI,UK. Our Nursery is inspected regularly by DEFRA.

 

SUFFOLK SHOW 2005

Suffolk Show Fruit Garden

Our Fruit Garden - winning the Gold Cup and best of show.

At Crown Nursery we are passionate about fruit, gardens and plants. Our model garden for this years Suffolk Show displays a fusion of ornamental and fruit plants .
A pleasurable, productive and low maintenance garden.

Weeping Mulberry—architectural shape & very special fruit for the connoisseur. Cob nuts — easy to grow, attractive foliage, catkins for spring interest and good autumn colour — & so good for you! Figs — warmer summers allow more reliable fig cropping, Top fruit — apples, pears, cherries, plums, gages grown as step overs, espaliers, fans, cordons, ‘S’ shapes, Soft fruit — red currants, blackcurrants, blueberries, gooseberries, strawberries, rhubarb —what a summer pudding — with cream or crème frâiche!

Our Silver award winning display 'Agriculture Changed' in the Flower Tent

The old Draw Plough once used to cultivate our Suffolk soils has a new lease of life converted, by a local blacksmith, to a seat for contemplation and relaxation in the garden.


Trees— for wildlife , the environment and for you- a splendid Acer palmatum ‘Atropurpureum’ and Elaeagnus commutata - the scent and ambience!
Shrubs - low maintenance hard working plants providing habitat and exhibiting many forms of texture, colour & shape .
Perennials - last but not least the treasures of Spring and Summer.


………………..The changes this plough has seen from arable times - a reflection of the Suffolk Countryside and life ….?

 

 Suffolk Show display

 


Brogdale Twigs62 twigs of apple wood have arrived at Crown Nursery, Ufford from Brogdale Horticultural Trust in Kent. By the end of this year with the grafting skills and care of staff at the Nursery, these small twigs will become young apple trees and will be planted in Crown Nursery's Millennium Orchard, already home to more than 130 varieties of fruit tree - some heritage, some modern.

 

The new young trees will complete the collection of apple trees in the Millennium Orchard which will then hold practically all currently known, named apple tree varieties that have originated in Suffolk, Norfolk & Essex.

The Orchard is a living library of fruit trees, which will preserve our heritage varieties for the future, provide propagating material so more local variety trees can be disseminated and enjoyed in gardens and orchards around the county, and additionally be used as a resource for students on Crown Nursery horticultural courses.

Graeme with Brogdale TwigsGraeme Proctor with the Brogdale 'twigs'.

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