A few more trees ordered for the field...
From Cool Temperate Nursery:
Wellington - "a black x red hybrid mulberry, long cylindrical fruit, dark red, good flavour, long cropping season".
X Sorbopyrus auricularis Bolwyller Pear - a pear x whitebeam hybrid, (intergeneric pome fruit info...)
Walnut, Excelsior of Taynton - Rare old English variety from Somerset
From Burncoose Nurseries:
Black Walnut, Juglans nigra
Sweet Chestnut, Castanea sativa
Wild service-tree, Sorbus terminalis (the Bristol variation would be interesting)
The above are a few 'curiosities' (apart from the chestnut).
I should already have a few Black Walnut young trees, but small mammals 'liberated' the seedlings I had at home from the pots before they developed properly.
A couple of recent Twitter posts by The Grasslands Trust highlight the importance and scarcity of 'unimproved' grassland as a valuable habitat. I'm mindful that with two planned wooded field margins and the mixed orchard, that the plot has some compromises.
Hopefully the spacing of the nut and fruit trees with a 6 metre grid will allow enough light and space. (I'm leaving a reasonable sized open area of grass / meadowsweet and wild flowers).
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