Ivydene Gardens Top Fruit Gallery: Introduction
 

"Grow Your Own Fruit" by Ken Muir,
(www.kenmuir.co.uk) Honeypot Farm, Weeley Heath, Clacton-On-Sea, Essex. CO16 9BJ Tel: 01255 830181 provides the information on cultural practices in a clear and concise manner. It is strongly recommended that this booklet is read before growing Top Fruit or Soft Fruit, so that correct plants for your soil can be purchased and give a good yield.

The Site Map for Individual Apples GIVES YOU DIRECT ACCESS TO the plant description with its photos for ALL THE 8 APPLES detailed in this Top Fruit Gallery IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.

There are further details concerning Soil, Sun Aspect and Soil Moisture levels in the Top Fruit Page of the Plants Section, together with the apple rootstock details of M.9, M.25, M.26, M.27 and MM.106 that determine the potential natural height of the apple tree.

This plant gallery has thumbnail pictures of apple tree blossoms in the following colours:-

This plant gallery has thumbnail pictures of apple tree foliage in the following colours:-

This plant gallery has thumbnail pictures of apple shapes available in container grown form for the following uses:-

This plant gallery has thumbnail pictures of apple shapes available in bare root form for the following uses:-

This plant gallery has thumbnail pictures of apple tree fruit with its colour:-

 

If you click on a thumbnail another window opens with up to 9 larger images (Blossom, Foliage and Fruit - for Blossom, Foliage and Fruit pages) and the following plant description:-

1. Apple Name
2. Apple Type:

3. Tree Forms Available in Container Grown:

4. Tree Forms Available in Bare Root:

5. Foliage
6. Blossom Colour
7. Top Fruit Colour, Month of Picking and Keep till Month
8. Comments. These include the Apple taste Acid/Sweet, which is described in The New Book of Apples The definitive guide to apples, including over 2000 varieties by Joan Morgan and Alison Richards (ISBN 0-09-188398-9).

 

Please close that window before clicking on another thumbnail.

The Site Map for Top Fruit Description Pages and Comparison Pages with photo content(o) gives you access to the above 9 larger images and plant description for all the plants detailed in the Top Fruit Gallery in alphabetical order.

This plant gallery has pictures of flower beds with Apple Trees with description.

Together with the Plants, Companion Planting and Offbeat Glossary sections of this website, these photographs should aid your choice of plant for your garden.

These gallery photographs of Apples were provided by Brian Lovelidge of Frank P Matthews Ltd.

 

I and Ivydene Horticultural Services are requesting the donation of the following colour photographs of plants for display in this section:-

  • Flower - to show the shape and colour of the whole flower.
  • Foliage - to show the shape of the leaf and its colour. If its colour changes in the year, then a picture of each changed colour.
  • Form - to show the natural shape/growth habit of the whole plant. If the plant is deciduous, then one with foliage and one without.
  • Fruit - to show the shape and colour of the whole fruit/nut/seed produced after it has flowered.
  • Flower Bed - to show the overall effect of a group of plants together, preferably with the names of each of the plants displayed.

Each main photograph will be displayed in a 150 x 150 pixels graphic item. Each thumbnail photograph will be displayed in 50 x 50 pixels graphic item. Freeway allocates 72 pixels per inch. The photographs require to be in :-

  • JPEG Format and can be sent via email (depress the email Chris Garnons-Williams item at the top of this page)
  • 35mm slide or normal photograpgh to be scanned in (send to Chris Garnons-Williams at 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages, Moor Street, Rainham, Kent, ME8 8QE England)

Please give the Latin name of the plant and your contact details (It would be preferable that it is either your website or email address rather than your phone number). These will then appear with the relevant photograph with Anti-Spam software round the website or email contact details.

If you happen to be a Nursery, then this link could provide a means for people getting that plant; that they require.

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Why do so few apple tree nurseries who supply directly to garden owners in the UK and so few garden owners in the UK donate the use of their apple tree photos of the flower, foliage, form or fruit/seed to this website? Where else can you compare plants by flower colour, foliage colour, form or fruit/seed shape/colour with their soil type, soil moisture, sun aspect and height?

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