After a long layoff it is back to some fruit plantings. Last year we planted approx 12-13 fruit tree’s this year not as many. The plan for this year is mainly for plum & cherry (and a few others). So what has arrived so far, and what we have named them (remembering we name all the fruit trees).

• Presidents Plum (Obama)
• Angelina Burdett Plum (Angie)
• Nottingham Medlar (Un-named)

Now as the medlar is unnamed, any suggestions out there. The medlar is a fruit you only eat when rotten, also it has been referred to as a dogs arse amongst other names due to the look of it.

From wikipedia

“In the 16th and 17th centuries, medlars were also bawdily called “open-arses” because of the shape of the fruits, inspiring the presence of boisterously or humorously indecent puns in many Elizabethan and Jacobean plays.”

From Romeo and Juliet

I am still planning another apple, a sloe plum and a few more nut trees, but more on those when they arrive.

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