Comments on: In The Orchards Of Kent https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/04/08/in-the-orchards-of-kent/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 14 Apr 2019 11:11:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Diana Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/04/08/in-the-orchards-of-kent/#comment-1280660 Sun, 14 Apr 2019 11:11:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173537#comment-1280660 Dear GA,

Thank you for the blog and lovely pictures of the blossom trees. My mother grew up in Gillingham, Kent during the 1920’s and often spoke of her love of the blossom and how much, as a child, she had enjoyed playing in the orchards nearby to where she lived. Her love of springtime and all that it encompasses stayed with her all her life, though sadly she passed away just before spring in February 2017. Spring also happens to be my favourite time of year and the lovely photos you have provided allow one to continue to ‘dip’ into spring at anytime, which is greatly appreciated. Thank you for caring and for your marvellous blogs, keeping the beauty of the seasons of life and lives ‘alive’.

]]> By: Leana Pooley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/04/08/in-the-orchards-of-kent/#comment-1278910 Mon, 08 Apr 2019 17:55:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173537#comment-1278910 How joyful and wonderful! A lovely treat for our eyes.

]]> By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/04/08/in-the-orchards-of-kent/#comment-1278812 Mon, 08 Apr 2019 10:35:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173537#comment-1278812 Thank you GA, there is very little that surpasses the beauty of cherry blossom except perhaps the taste of the fruit. cherries are my favourite fruit of all time which made it very difficult when,as a student, I went cherry picking, well clipping actually as we had to climb ladders to ‘clip’ bunches of the fruit with big clippers. Happy days.

]]> By: Amanda Root https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/04/08/in-the-orchards-of-kent/#comment-1278807 Mon, 08 Apr 2019 10:02:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173537#comment-1278807 Brogdale is also a great place to go to in the Autumn, as you can eat the apples as you walk round.

]]> By: Mark Byfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/04/08/in-the-orchards-of-kent/#comment-1278802 Mon, 08 Apr 2019 09:29:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173537#comment-1278802 Well done!
Great photos and a lovely read.

I have very much enjoyed your tree blogs of late. I am a London tree Officer and have found them very informative.

I do pop into Brogdales now and then and at one time took a group of Tree friends there on Apple day. Well worth a visit.

Great Blog… I read it every day.

Mark

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/04/08/in-the-orchards-of-kent/#comment-1278788 Mon, 08 Apr 2019 08:34:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173537#comment-1278788 Greetings from Boston,

GA, thank you for that delightful spring excursion to view the cherry trees of Kent. They look so well tended and loved…

]]> By: Greg Tingey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/04/08/in-the-orchards-of-kent/#comment-1278766 Mon, 08 Apr 2019 06:57:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173537#comment-1278766 Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/04/08/in-the-orchards-of-kent/#comment-1278762 Mon, 08 Apr 2019 06:32:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173537#comment-1278762 Lovely stuff!

And I hope you will have time next month to come to Surrey to marvel at the bluebell woods…

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