Raymond & Sylvia Yarwood were aware of what needed to be done to regreen Cornwall way before many of us. Towans Forest Garden is situated on one of Cornwall’s largest sand dune systems in Hayle, in no small way a challenging place to grow fruiting trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals. The garden is tested toContinue reading “Orchard abundance amongst the sand dunes at Towans Forest Garden”
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Apple trees for the community
We’ve had a good first season of providing fruit trees for planting in public spaces. Some Cornish apple trees including ‘Cornish Gillyflower’ made there way to Tehidy Country Park as part of the Apple Tree event held on 25th February over Half Term and organised by Charlotte Evans, and rangers Gavin and Stuart all fromContinue reading “Apple trees for the community”
What a productive start to the year! March Update
We led 4 x grafting workshops this year with 37 participants grafting and going home with at least 1 apple tree to care for and if successful – fingers crossed – plant in the Autumn. That’s 37 new apple trees to be planted! Incredible Edible Helston invited us to their edible community garden to share the skills of grafting in an open communityContinue reading “What a productive start to the year! March Update”
True Service trees (Sorbus domestica)
I’m very excited to be growing True Service trees from seed this year – my first seedlings are growing well. True Service trees grow very large and I’m more familiar with them in London, at St Ann’s Hospital site in Tottenham where there are some amazing mature trees with huge amounts of fruit, usually leftContinue reading “True Service trees (Sorbus domestica)”