Two heritage apple enthusiasts, Barbara and Catherine arrived today with their bundles of scions collected from the roadsides and abandoned farmhouses of the Catlins and together we spent the afternoon grafting those onto rootstock and setting them out to grow in our purpose built beds.
The 'Catlins Collection' will stay in Riverton until we can find a custodian from over that way, then back they go!
In the meantime, it's going to be very interesting to see what treasures Barbara and Catherine have re-discovered!
Two years to wait til they fruit!
2 comments:
Would your climate be different from the Catlins?
Not significantly, though they missed out on the snow this time around.
Of all the apple regions, our two match best so these tress should be very happy indeed. They've given their roadside trees some lovely names. I'll post them sometime.
This morning C&B are going to West Plains to plant some of their ready-grafted favourites into the orchard we have established there.
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