Here Are my Apple Harvest Highlights – 2024 Edition: orchardnotes.com/2024/11/29/my-… Starring 'Ellison's Orange', 'Pitmaston Pine Apple', 'Herefordshire Russet', 'Winter Gem', Tydeman's Early Worcester' and many more... #apples #orchard #NTQBfruit #allotment

'Barnack Beauty', a delicious dessert apple, local to me, illustrated in 1921 by Arthur Rackham for Eden Phillpotts's whimsical 'A Dish of Apples'. "Not until every leaf has flown Will he desert his summer throne."

Two Colonial-era Americans. One known to apple nerds; the other legendary. Turns out they are related. #apples adamapples.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-ap…

Not sure what to gift the orchard enthusiast in your life? 🎁 Darren from Orchard Notes has compiled a reading list that's sure to delight any fruit-tree lover. Maybe you'll even find something to add to your wishlist 😉 Check it out here: lght.ly/n07eobf

Classic apple for streudel. Named for...its shape! (Get it?) #apples adamapples.blogspot.com/2024/10/glocke…

The apple trees are sleeping now adamapples.blogspot.com/2024/12/hush.h…

I have decided to track this, make a record of my local fortnightly vibe shift. Starting on the winter solstice seems appropriate to me, so tomorrow then.

WASSAIL! 🔥🍎 🇺🇦🇬🇧📚Magical #wassail at #Herefordshire archives thanks to our Ukrainian community, Rotherwas Together history and JennyPipes Morris

Traditional orchards are now rare habitats in the UK – around two thirds of orchards have been lost since 1960. Fruit trees support a diverse range of wildlife, so planting an apple tree can help boost biodiversity. How to choose an apple tree: bit.ly/45AFzhZ #nature

At dusk they went, a-wassailing, carrying lanterns and spiced apple cake and dark polished bowls of lamb's-wool; a happy procession along the frozen lane to the orchards, which lay beyond Old Fox's cottage. Old Twelfth Night, a very old day, a day still held in the old places of

Good health to all!

As noted, I am mostly out of here, but here is my once-a-year rating of new apples I've had, plus some revisions. Consider bookmarking or subbing to my blog if you'd like to stay in touch. (Also bluesky etc.) Deets in profile. adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/02/measur…

Here's the sort of thing I'm writing this winter. Join me on my blog or Bluesky, details in my profile. adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/02/bloom.…

Doing some research for an article and found this great heirloom apple website. Adam's Apples outonalimbapples.com/varieties/blac…