{"id":131674,"date":"2022-11-18T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/terrace-lawn-or-courtyard-theres-an-apple-tree-to-fit-every-plot-so-plant-one-now-alys-fowler\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T18:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T11:22:27","slug":"terrace-lawn-or-courtyard-theres-an-apple-tree-to-fit-every-plot-so-plant-one-now-alys-fowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/terrace-lawn-or-courtyard-theres-an-apple-tree-to-fit-every-plot-so-plant-one-now-alys-fowler\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrace, lawn or courtyard, there\u2019s an apple tree to fit every plot. So plant one now | Alys Fowler"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOrdering a bare-root tree is an investment that will bear flavourful fruitI get such a thrill when I see a heavily laden tree ripe with rosy apples. I think of the apples given away, bottled into sauce or made into pies. I think of the blackbirds that so love a rotten fallen apple. I think of the worms, wasps, maggots and microbes that take the rotting flesh back into the soil. I think of the ladybirds that will shelter over winter in the craggy edges of the tree\u2019s bark, and the mistle thrush that will wipe the sticky mistletoe berries off its beak and thus deposit them into hollows where long-gone branches grew. I think of the mason bees and hoverflies that will pollinate the blossom in spring, and of the many moulds, rusts and strange fungi that will inhabit worlds I cannot see over the surface of the tree, both above and below.A whole world then, growing, being with, resting on and coming to the tree; the tree as a home; the trees as part of your home. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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