About

The orchard started in 2019 with twenty bare-root whips and a great deal of optimism. Today there are thirty-one trees: mostly heritage apples, a few pears, two plums and the quince that gets more attention than everything else combined.

The ground is light and sandy and the wind comes straight off the water, so most of the work here is about shelter and soil. A mixed hedge of hawthorn, blackthorn and sea buckthorn now breaks the worst of it. Seaweed and wood chip do the rest.

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Varieties, for the curious: 'Discovery', 'Ellison's Orange', 'Bramley', 'Ashmead's Kernel', 'Egremont Russet', 'Concorde' and 'Beth' pears, 'Victoria' and 'Czar' plums, and a 'Vranja' quince.