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Orchards Live - saving orchards in North Devon |
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Orcharding ***NEW*** Natural England's guidance notes to traditional orchards. Search their publications catalogues for 'orchards' and see TIN012 to TIN021. The North Devon branch of the Devon Beekeepers Association is one of the oldest beekeeping branches within Devon and is certainly the largest. New members are always welcome and training can be given. A good pruning website from New England (where conditions may not be the same as Devon). Pruning video on youtube Brogdale Horticultural Trust, the home of the national fruit collection. The National Orchard Forum represents the 20-30 heritage orchard groups throughout the UK, assisting in the vital exchange of information. Apple information from Common Ground. Informative pome fruit site from NSW Good site from Washington State University ... and California at Greenmantle Nursery "The ubiquitous presence of the apple in the New World reflects the early dominance of British colonization. The apple tree thrives in Great Britain, and the British have long enjoyed a nearly obsessive love affair with the genus Malus. Ironically, most of the varieties they attempted to import into North America were not fully hardy here. It took the planting of tens of thousands of pips to create a new breed of American apple. England's devotion to the apple took root and grew to huge proportions in the American soil."
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