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The Tanat Reviver tells a story of resilience: of one veteran apple tree, discovered in the gardens of a Tanat valley resident back in 2006, now in the National Welsh...

The winter planting season is nearly here. I have a few hundred trees left!! Get in touch if you want me to send a stock list before they run out.

We’re nearing the end of the planting season and I have very limited stock left. If you want to order trees it’s best to get in touch. . The field...

The nursery is now officially in conversion to organic status. Here’s something I’ve written about plans for the new site. It’s unfinished but nearly there.. I run a one acre...

I was struggling to take good photos that encapsulated the range of different trees, plants and wildlife in the nursery so I made this short film with my friend Vera...

Take a look at our collection of rare borderland apple varieties.

I’ve just removed the grafting tape off grafts I did in June. Here’s a nicely taken chip bud with the bud looking healthy…

Even a barrow full of rotten apples looks good…

Just pruned this ‘Meridian ‘ espalier

DCIM100MEDIADJI_0004.JPG We have now bought 6.5 acres of south facing pasture land on which we will move the nursery to over the next few years. These photos were taken this...

The Orchard Project have been running a certified course in community orcharding over the last two years. I’ve been teaching the summer pruning and grafting part. Saturday’s session at Audley...

We’re using willow wood chip as a mulch for the nursery and orchard. The willow is growing in a corner of the nursery, split into two sections and coppiced on...

We’ve begun chip budding apples in the nursery

Just made the first batch of bio fertiliser for spraying the trees in the nursery and orchard.

These sweet hedgerow plums were found growing near Oswestry and are known locally as sugar plums. I will be grafting them onto plum rootstocks next week and trees will be...

Spraying the nursery trees with garlic oil and seaweed extract to help boost the trees immune system, increase photosynthesis levels and as a pest deterrent

I made this pergola for the wedding venue at Bromwich Park recently using Douglas fir from cynynion timber

Here’s an article I wrote for Permaculture Magazine

Spring flowers showing so much promise. Apple, pear, chives,poached egg plant, elaegnus…

This tree has been damaged by hungry rabbits in the winter. In order to rescue it I’ve planted two rootstocks next to it and grafted into the trunk above the...

Welsh Perry variety Gwehelog just starting to grow from bud grafted onto the Pyrus communis rootstock last August. The new growth has a few aphids taking some of that fresh...

We recently had a go at making Biochar at the nursery. Here’s what Biochar International have to say about Biochar Home Sustainable biochar is a powerfully simple tool to fight...

It’s very nearly the end of the planting season and I have a limited selection of trees left. Here’s the list. Please get in touch if you’d like to order...

All the rootstocks we plant in the nursery are inoculated with mycorrhizal fungi. This kick starts a relationship between the roots and the fungal sphere in the soil. The fungus...