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On a cool, damp afternoon in December a new orchard underwent fruition on Roman Farm Open Space with 6 stone-fruit trees planted, including Hauszwetsche Plum; Dittisham Ploughman; Hauszwetsche Plums; Dulling Golden Gage; Victoria Plum; and a Dennistons Superb. Trees were supplied by Surrey County Council Trees Team, planted by Surrey University Accommodation Team, orchestrated by Ben Carter from Guildford Borough Council’s, The Hive and supported by Christa Emmett from Surrey Wildlife Trust's Wilder Communities. Specials to Surrey County Council for funding the project through their Surrey Community Nature Recovery Grant and Guildford tree officer James-Pieter Berry for the green lights!
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This year we had our final planting at Eashing Cemetery, with 14 fruit-trees completing this 60 tree planting project, as part of Eashing Cemetery Orchard Trail, with the trees planted at about 20m-spacing, over a 5-year period. This year St. Marks Primary School brought over 20 pupils and teachers to assist with the planting and Roots for the Future gave an educational curriculum-based talk on tree planting and their life-cycle.
Thank you to Jenna, Andy, Alistair, Francesca and the School team. And, of course special thanks to Kate for supporting us and Adam’s Parks Team for preparing the planting spaces.  COPSE has had issues with stone-fruit tree survivorship on some sites, which talking with growers, is not uncommon and can arise from within nurseries as a result of rootstock incompatibility. As most of our sites have free-draining suitable soils for stone-fruit, rootstock incompatibility could be an issue with some of our stone-fruit trees. Even on the light soils of Jubilee Field and Hog’s-Back Puttenham Parish Orchards, with 38 fruit trees planted since 2019, an Opel plum tree sadly died after planting it in January 2025. We were able to replace this plum in November with a lovely Cherry Cox apple.
COPSE rounded off the 'Juicing Season' with two events with the fantastic residents of Queensway in Cranleigh and Parsons Green in Haslemere. We had good numbers, with 10 to 15 residents from around the area, helping at the Queensway juicing on 25th October and then at Parson's Green on 26th October, with lots of lovely unpasteurised apple juice pressed with the residents. We also forgot to mention last month’s Collards Lane Allotment juicing (family Bayliss pictured below) on 21st September attended by 16 plot-holders, which we fitted-in as part of our YCCF grant, at the Haslemere Food Festival was cancelled! |
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CategoriesAuthorsGareth is an ecologist interested in conserving traditional orchards and heritage fruit, for people and wildlife. 
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