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Apple Day – at South Abingdon Children’s Centre

Nicola Blackwood, MP for Abingdon, and Mike Badcock, Mayor of Abingdon, were there at the Apple Day run by Abingdon Carbon Cutters, and the South Abingdon Children’s Centre.

Nicola planted a representative tree as a symbolic start for a future orchard and forest at Caldecott School.

There were a number of stalls at the event… Ruth Ward was there with her book ‘A Harvest of Apples’ and a display of lots of different sorts of apples. As well as apple folklore, and history, her book contains lots of apple recipes.
Apple Day
There was Grow Your Own Allotment advice, from a lady who runs some training allotments on Peachcroft farm. Email on the board in the picture (gyoveg at hotmail.com). And there was a representative from Drayton Road Allotments.

There was Abingdon honey for sale from Virginia Arnott, beekeeper of Abingdon (v.arnott at ntlworld.com.) You can also get Abingdon honey from Radley Road bees – on sale at Added Ingredients, for they were there too.
Apple Day
But the main business of the day was apples…

juicing them

and drinking the juice. TV cameras, for BBC Local News, were there too and here is the link to the video story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-15327064 saying how the people of Abingdon wanted to reintroduce more Heritage apples with a community orchard .

Sunlight streaming through the trees

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Hot October 1st
The news said that yesterday was the hottest September 30th in 100 years, and went on to predict that today could be the hottest October Day on record. It began with sun light streaming through the trees of the Ock Valley Walk.

A young tree needs protection – part 5

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Only somebody who has been following this Abingdon Blog for a very long time might remember Parts 1 – 4.

In 2006 I started to photograph 3 young trees on my regular dog walks to watch their progress
from winter 2006
through Spring 2006
through Summer 2006
and back to winter of the same year.

It is time for an update…
A young tree needs protection
Tree 1 is flourishing on the Ock Valley Walk and can be seen in the centre of this picture. Its tree guard has been redeployed to another younger tree.

The second tree looks to be doing OK …

but from another angle can be seen that its mate is developing into one of those interesting – not quite upright – trees.
A young tree needs protection
The final tree from Part 1 – 4 did not survive but has been replaced by another tree, with much better protection.

The Spindle Tree will be missed