My Garden

We recently had a visit form Pascal Garbe, Director of the Garden of Fruit at Laquenexy in France. He came over to see us after Kirsty Summerhayes from our Fruit Department had made an earlier trip to visit his garden to witness some of the more interesting fruit techniques used there. On this occasion... Read more..

This week the Fruit Department are painting…. with apples. For the last few years we've held a competition with schools to come up with a design that can be 'painted' using the restricted colour palette of apples. I'm always amazed by the imagination of children and the astonishing variety... Read more..

Have you ever wondered how a chef knows which cultivars of fruit or veg are best suited to his or her dishes? There are a handful of potatoes that are well known to be excellent for a particular use, be it baking, roasting, chipping, mashing, boiling etc, but when it comes to, say, apples, we tend to... Read more..

It’s harvest time, and with it we’ve been celebrating the wonderful world of produce at A Taste of Autumn. It was a phenomenal success this year, with Wisley’s busiest ever day on record on Saturday. As part of the celebrations we do an apple mosaic. Every year we invite school children to draw up a... Read more..

What a difference a week makes. This week Wisley has proved incredibly popular with happy half termers! I expect the mild weather has been something to do with it, along with the lure of the great outdoor space we have here. But I know that the Butterflies in the Glasshouse have also enticed many visitors... Read more..

Our Grow Your Own weekend proved exceptionally popular on the weekend of 7-8th March. As part of the event we celebrated the 200th birthday of the famous cooking apple ‘Bramley’s Seedling’ AGM. Jim Arbury and his team in the Fruit and Trials Department planted the tree at the edge of the Fruit Field... Read more..

We all had a great time at Rosemoor's Apple Day last Sunday (12 October). The weather couldn't have been better and around 1,400 visitors gathered to learn about apples, see cookery demonstrations, have mystery apples identified and take part in apple pressing and workshops. There was even a... Read more..