Comments on: In The Orchards Of Kent

By: Jennifer Newbold

Jennifer Newbold — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:43:20 +0000

Beautiful! Why does fruit never look so tempting on the market shelves? I could spend an hour just looking at these photos. What a glorious bounty! I may never get to Kent to see them for myself, so thank you for sharing them, G.A.

By: gkbowood

gkbowood — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:30:16 +0000

Oh My Word! Even this little bit left me “wowing” over and over. They are all so perfect and so much fruit on each tree! What were those long skinny pears? I have never seen pears like that…
so envious of such bounty available for guided viewing! Unheard of where I live in Central Texas.
Thank you!

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 13:53:30 +0000

What a glorious place! After seeing the amazing array of well-tended flourishing fruit trees, my mind whip-lashed to a favorite apple tree right here on our nine acres in Columbia County. This land, alas, was 100% pasture when we bought it as a home site. A local farmer had used this beautiful place with a remarkable view as pasture land for his dairy cattle. And so it was for many, many years. Once we built our home, we noticed how quickly the land was “reclaiming” itself from its rolling-pasture status. Bushes, shrubs, volunteer trees — everything that was not mowed started sprouting to the amazement and surprise of the two City kids who bought the land. Happily, one of those volunteer trees is a wild apple tree, and it is awash in small apples that seem to bring pure delight to a family of deer who live here. They arrive each evening around cocktail time, taking graceful steps from the deep woods onto the lawn…………making their customary way toward the lower edge of the property, always snaking past the apple tree and pausing to enjoy a munch. Beneath the tree is a carpet of fallen apples, and the heavy boughs drape low, literally full of the small pale red fruit. What luck to have an apple tree!

By: Claire D

Claire D — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 13:11:59 +0000

Coincidentally, I went out this morning ‘gathering’ (as opposed to ‘hunting’), I visited a local orchard where I bought 2lbs each of Grenadier cooking apples and Discovery eating apples, then from a stall at the side of the road in deep country I bought another 2lbs each of a dark red cooking Pippin and another cooker I can’t remember the name of, striped green and scarlet.
Very much sympathise with your view how sad it is most people don’t get to eat such delicious apples, it is a pity.

By: Bailey Jones

Bailey Jones — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 12:30:49 +0000

Wonderful. And in such a lovely neck of the woods. Nearby Faversham is a peach of a town, one of the most beautiful in England.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 11:51:12 +0000

Pic no1. is very fruity (good).
Did an harvest myself in Denham, Suffolk 40 + years ago alongside the Red folk (followers of that bonkers Bagwan), nice, gentle deluded hippies. Good fruit pickers mind.

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:35:06 +0000

Lovely delicious fruit! Remember scrumping as kids and being chased by the owner! Never told our parents though x