Fruit
PLUM TREES
We have 9 varieties of plums and this year we are going to get cherry plum varieties. Why?
”Altogether 1420 in the Shire was a marvellous year. Not only was there wonderful sunshine and delicious rain, in due times and perfect measure, but there seemed something more: an air of richness and growth … The fruit was so plentiful that young hobbits very nearly bathed in strawberries and cream; and later they sat on the lawns under the plum-trees and ate, until they had made piles of stones like small pyramids or the heaped skulls of a conqueror, and then they moved on.” (The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien)
That’s why.
CHERRY TREES
In our logo the Tallbacka Teddy bites into a cherry and this was not chosen for just aesthetic reasons. There is something wild, beautiful and fascinating about a cherry. We have four varieties of sour cherry and so far only one of sweet cherry. This summer we are looking for a companion for Arthur, probably Leningrad black. They all grow beside the old gardens diagonal path. When I planted them I had in mind an arched canopy of cherry blossom. We have realised that the trees came a little too close to the path itself and that it’s not worth sowing vegetables by their roots. I’ll be wiser next summer by leaving a large enough circle of flowers around the tree trunk. I think they will be Nasturtiums.
