Puttenham's Newly Planted Cherry Cox

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.