Do you have an orchard? Ooh I'd love an orchard....

[Northerner]

Atm I live in a beautiful detached 14 bedroomed Georgian mansion with 10978 acres but I don't have an Orchard. I'm even considering moving to a 13 bedoomed mansion with an orchard!! (can you beleive it?)

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norty northerner

you don't have an orchard? Do you also not have a gardening staff of 4 and a paddock for the ponies? How do you cope?

Do you know where I can get giraffes from?I have a herd of Highland cattle out the front but I really want giraffes too.

I have a huge orchard,nbut don't go there much as the gardener picks the fruit with his team and gives it to cook.Besides,that's where we keep the rare breed pigs.

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I live in a 4 bed 1930s semi and I have an orchard. It has 1 eating apple tree, 1 plum tree, 1 pear tree and a cooking apple tree. That counts as an orchard doesn't it?

with a stream babbling beyond and a wildflower meadow

I have an orchard, On My Allotment

well, 5 plum trees and two apple

well, we do have 4 apple trees, 2 plum trees, a crab apple and a greengage tree in our garden, sort of running down the both sides, does that count???

WTF is quince?

quince passe you need medlar

1 apple, 1 pear, 1 plum.

Eh?

We have a few bruised apples, some pears, and a few black bananas in the kitchen-am I just embarrassing myself by asking if that counts as an orchard?

no love, what you want is an arboretum, none of this half-hearted orchard nonsense. Oh and a mountain of course.

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and a graden temple..I've always wanted one of those

Nigella does quince recipes.
I always skip that page.

quince is sort of a cross between an apple and something else, lovely roasted, not nice raw imo. Medlar is something else of the fruity appley variety I think.

(ooooh hark at me and my knowledge of fruits

I have a bog standard 4 bed detached with 72 acres of natural woodland and a stream.

No quinche though

I have a greengage tree. No bloody clue what to do with the little green bastards, but at least I have it.

Also 3 apple trees, two of which have gone biannual and one sterile cherry (or maybe none of my neighbours have an appropriate tree for fertilising it).

I would love a medlar tree. You can't buy medlars commercially, so I could make a killing selling them at the bottom of my drive, with an honesty box .

medlar is so esoteric that you have to wait until it rots to eat it