• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Apple Blossom

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When we moved into our house eighteen years ago there were three huge cypress trees in the middle of the garden. They were well past their prime so I had them cut down, which revealed a scrawny little apple tree in the corner of the garden which had been stuck in the shade. Since then it has enjoyed the best spot for sunshine and has slowly been gaining strength.

This year it has gone bonkers - I've never seen so much blossom. I'm praying we don't get a late frost because it looks like I'm in for a bumper harvest of eaters.

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There's a giant cooker apple tree in the other corner which isn't doing too badly either, and I had a bumper crop of bluebells this year too (click on the pic for a better view):

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I've had barrow fulls of cooking apples off the big tree every year - hundreds of great big green apples. I had a mate who used to make cider and he used to give me a few bottles of rocket fuel every year, but unfortunately he doesn't make cider any more. And the old Austrian lady who used to live next door made the most delicious apple strudel. My late wife was a dab hand with apples too. Sadly they just go to waste now.

The eater apple tree usually only produces a few apples, very tasty ones. I'm hoping for a good crop this year!
 
Sadly the Beast from the East must have clobbered my Apple tree - no blossom :(

Killed my hydrangeas and some other plants too.

Rod
 
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