fruit walls

Interesting post about fruit walls

http://thinking-stoneman.blogspot.ie/2016/02/warm-walls.html

bark, moss and lichens

In my parents garden are several old apple and pear trees which are not in leaf yet, but absolutely covered with moss and lichens. Also a birch showing some maturing of the bark.

fruit tree root stocks

Absolutely brilliant post on Root Stocks for pretty much all fruit trees from the Oxford College of Garden Design blog.

All about Fruit Root Stocks...

orchard

I have planted up 4 plums and 4 apples in the orchard. The plums include a Damson, Green Gage and two Victoria plums. The apples are Discovery, James Grieve and two Bramley Seedling. I raised them up on planting mounds due to the high water table here. All were well fed with some rotted mushroom compost, chicken manure pellets and some calcified seaweed.