NEW APPLE VARIETY MAKES THE NEWS

I can’t really see what all the fuss is about. You drive along any motorway in Britain and you can see random apple trees, the result of thrown away apple cores, growing, flowering and fruiting.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/nov/28/new-variety-of-apple-discovered-by-wiltshire-runner
There used to be a nice tall one growing by the Monsal Trail here is Derbyshire, but Peak Park chopped it down for no particular reason other than it wasn’t a native species. ☹️
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/nov/28/new-variety-of-apple-discovered-by-wiltshire-runner
There used to be a nice tall one growing by the Monsal Trail here is Derbyshire, but Peak Park chopped it down for no particular reason other than it wasn’t a native species. ☹️
Apophthegm - a big word for a small thought.
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In similar news, did you see the rare plant find reported by the BBC? Interesting, not least because I was surprised to read how many of these abandoned ponds exist. It does make you wonder how many billions of dormant seeds are just waiting for the right conditions to germinate.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55104153
Peak Park have some very peculiar ideas, steephill. Not only about plants. I sometimes think that they’ll make the residents all wear smocks and straw hats one day, just to be “authentic”. I’ll leave it at that. 🙄
National Parks used to be about conserving the area - I think they are gradually losing the plot.
Peak Park said they could.
BUT they couldn’t possibly insert a window into a wall that is invisible to anyone except the owners.
Told them the only windows they could have were “arrow slits”.
I kid you not.
Endless proclamations from the council re how keen they are on green - joined up thinking is a concept well beyond their imagination.
I can understand them yanking out something invasive, such as the dreaded rhododendron ponticum, but they seem to have it in for all sorts of escaped and self sown things that originated in gardens. I can’t see what’s wrong with an upstart apple tree.
That said, they leave the pheasant berry/snow berry thing, which is along roadsides everywhere, I think because it was introduced by the landed gentry to keep game birds alive until the toffs could shoot them. There’s a lot of ingrained cap doffing and forelock tugging still.