Farlands
Fruit, Nut & Orchard Tour
· Thinking of planting some fruit
trees, or even starting an orchard?
· Did you know that every Bramley
apple originates from the same apple tree in Nottinghamshire?
· Did you know that pears can be
grown on hawthorn hedges?
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Fruit
cage with black / white / red currants, gooseberry, strawberry, tayberry,
raspberry, blueberry
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Plum,
cherry, loganberry and several varieties of blackberry
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Walnut,
hazelnuts (cob and filbert), sweet chestnuts
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Many
varieties of apples & pears; grown as bush, cordon and step-overs
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Examples
of T-bud and whip-and-tongue grafting
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Tree
nurseries with current grafting and root stools (for the cloning of rootstocks)
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100+
tree foraging hedge (hazel, elder, common pear, medlar, crab apple, dog rose,
blackthorn)
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Pears
growing on hawthorn hedges
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