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  • Get your fruit identified this weekend!

    Blog post by Wisley Plant Centre on 02 Nov 2011

    Have you got a fruit tree in your garden, but don't know which variety? Jim Arbury, fruit guru at RHS Wisley, will be on hand at the Plant Centre to identify your unknown fruit, from 11am to 1pm and 2pm to 4pm, on both Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th November. Please bring several examples of each variety... Read more..

  • What do Aphrodite, Plato and Alexander the Great have in Common? Apples! - a blog by Rohanna Heyes

    Blog post by Sara Draycott on 24 Oct 2012

    Everyone knows the old saying about eating an apple a day , but this is just the tiniest tip of the mountain of apple facts and folklore . This wealth of information could perhaps be attributed to the fruit's long association with humans, so long that it might just be the oldest cultivated tree.... Read more..

  • Blog from the Orchard, by Jim Arbury, RHS Garden Wisley

    Blog post by Sara Draycott on 15 May 2013

    Hi I am Jim Arbury and this is my first blog. I am an RHS horticultural specialist with a particular interest and experience in fruit growing. I have worked at Wisley for 30 years and so have seen the orchard and fruit gardens through many contrasting seasons. I have been involved with all aspects of... Read more..

  • 20% off Soft Fruit and Tree Fruit

    Blog post by Harlow Carr Plant Centre on 09 Jul 2008

    We have a wide selection of plants to choose from: Strawberries, Raspberries, Blueberries, Cherries, Apples, Pears, Plums and many more, so why not pick up a tasty bargain while stocks last? This offer has now ended Read more..

  • bed of stringy webs

    Photo uploaded by Tutti Fruit on 09 Apr 2010

    Photo:SA Sharp 25/03/2010 Planting design for potager measured and marked out using bamboo canes and string lines. Sand also used to 'draw' part of the pattern on the soil. Useful to visualize the design before the seeds and plants go in. Read more..

  • Measuring the depth of snow

    Photo uploaded by Jim Gardiner on 04 Feb 2009

    Jim Arbury measuring the depth of snow at the Wisley Weather Station in the Fruit Field. He is using a broom because the standard rule is only 30cm long. The snow was 40cm deep! Photo: Ali Valsecchi Read more..

  • Heather Greig's bountiful crab apple Oct 2009

    Photo uploaded by The Garden on 14 Oct 2009

    un-named crab apple tree in Heather Greig's garden; all fruit withered in 2008, abundant fruit in 2009 Read more..

  • Rosy hues

    Photo uploaded by Tutti Fruit on 19 Jun 2010

    Photo: SA SHARP 7/6/2010 Background of lettuce 'Bijou' and broad bean 'Crimson Flowered'. Read more..

  • ..munch,munch

    Photo uploaded by Tutti Fruit on 10 May 2010

    Photo: SA SHARP 7/5/2010 Pictured here on a leaf on an apple stepover in the potager, winter moth larvae on the munch (ever so quietly). Read more..

  • Parasitic wasp?

    Photo uploaded by Tutti Fruit on 25 Apr 2010

    Photo: SA SHARP 22/04/2010 Not the best photographic angle for identification purposes, but the only chance I got! Read more..