Your chance to name a new apple variety

This autumn the London Orchard Project are launching a new variety of apple, specially developed for London.

What's more they're going to be planting 100 of the new trees in orchards in public spaces, parks and schools across London - including one in our orchard on the Jack Dunning Estate!

Working closely Trees for Life the new variety was carefully nurtured from a single seed and has taken ten years to develop.  It looks like this:

Feeling inspired?  Can you think of a name for this new London apple variety?  Tweet your suggestions to @LondonOrchard and then follow them on Twitter, for the announcement of the winning name.

Not on Twitter? You can email your suggestion to orchard@thelondonorchardproject.org – a chance to make your mark on Britain’s apple history!

Our Trees

People have been asking about the trees ...

We shall be planting eight trees, five alongside Augustine's Court and three on the raised ground at the end of Halidon Close.
Our trees have been selected to maximise success and provide a long harvest season, many of them traditional English varieties that have worked well on similar sites.

 

	Apple: Discovery, Fiesta & Howgate Wonder - three traditional English varieties, the Discovery apple crops early, the Fiesta is later and the Howgate Wonder is a large cooking apple
Pear: Conference & Louise Bonne of Jersey - an English variety and an old French one, with attractive blossom
	Plum: Blue Tit & Victoria - two typical english varieties, both good for eating and cooking
Apricot: Tomcot - Very good crop of attractive crimson-flushed fruit ready for picking mid-July

Prepare for planting

Just over a week to go until our planting date - Saturday 18 February.  Lots to be done before then...

Leaflets have been delivered to half the estate and we've put some posters up on the estate noticeboards.  More leafleting tomorrow!

After that, full-on bun-baking - using this recipe - yum!

Welcome to our pear-shaped blog!

  

Roots to Fruit

A new community orchard on the Jack Dunning Estate, Hackney, E9

Roots to Fruit is a new community orchard.
Thanks to the London Orchard Project, the Jack Dunning Estate in Hackney is getting a community orchard, allowing us to grow our own apples, pears, plums and apricots and rediscover the pleasures of eating locally-grown fruit. 
The trees (8 in total) will be planted on the grass verges outside Augustine's Court on Tresham Walk.

Get Involved

  Come to our planting day

 Saturday 18^th February 1pm-4:30pm

Outside Augustine’s Ct. on Tresham Walk

Help plant our fruit trees and enjoy apple cakes & mulled apple juice!

Everyone welcome