This orchard is a place for everyone to enjoy and was planted on 17 December 2006. The beautiful oak garden seat is in memory of Patsy Wood who helped conceive and realise this.
Plan of Orchard Trees looking west from the polytunnel towards the river:
- M26 (semi-dwarf rootstock) M27 (dwarf rootstock)
- Bryanston gage Old greengage
- Mannington’s pearmain Api noir
- D’Arcy spice Yellow ingestrie
- Ashmead’s kernel Catshead
- Court of Wick Mère de Ménage
- Irish peach St Edmund’s pippin
- Triomphe de Vienne (pear) Bundy’s ringwood red
- Laxton’s foremost (pear) Kerry pippin
Name Period when ripe type date of origin
Apples
Ashmead’s kernel Nov – May dessert c 1700
Api noir Dec – April dessert 1800
Bundy’s ringwood red mid-season dessert
Catshead Oct – Jan culinary very old
Court of Wick Oct – March dessert
D’Arcy spice Nov – May dessert
Irish peach August dessert
Kerry pippin Sept – Oct dessert
Mannington pearmain Nov – March dessert 1770
Mère de Ménage Oct – Jan culinary
St Edmund’s pippin Sept – Oct dessert (russet)
Yellow ingestrie Sept – Oct dessert
Pears
Laxton’s foremost Sept – Oct dessert pear 1901
Triomphe de Vienne September dessert pear
Gages
Bryanston gage late August dessert gage
Old greengage early Sept dessert gag
Heritage fruit tree links:
fairacres allotments 