The new additions

Hopefully you can just make out the new additions to the orchard. The little sticks with white labels on are the five new fruit trees. we have great hopes for them. The eight apple trees we planted three years ago are now just starting to bear fruit. Not enough for an apple pie but just enough to taste how each variety is different from the other. We hope likewise that in another three years we will be picking the odd one or two peaches and apricots and that the apples are much bigger and cropping well. Next year we will plant some cherry trees to replace the ones we already have as they are really past their best. They must be getting on for 50+ years old and have been badly neglected as the house was empty for some 15 years before the mad english came along and bought it. It was still one of our best ideas and one we have never regreted.