Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Woolsery

YoungBlueEyes said:

Think you have a crabapple addiction/bias Woolsery, they’re only tiny wee berries ha haa! 

Like a lot of my 'conspiracy theories,' I suppose.....

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/98350/malus-golden-hornet/details

YoungBlueEyes

Ooh now I’m wondering…. Looking at those RHS pics you could be right. How small do crabapples go? My tree’s berries were only marginally bigger than my hawthorn berries…. 

greenbee

Could it have been a yellow pyracantha? 

greenbee

crabapple (or apple) challenge. I can't remember what variety it is, and it was bought as a maiden about 5 years ago - purple leaves, dark pink (almost magenta) blossom and finally this year dark red apples with pink flesh. Only they're not crab apple size (and the other crab apples are normal this year), they are HUGE - decent eating apple size. Nice (slightly unusual) flavour, slightly spongy texture rather than crisp. 

As I'm moving, I'd quite like to put it on the list for the next place!

ETA - I think it might be Harry Baker, but the fruits are HUGE for crab apples!

Woolsery

greenbee said:

crabapple (or apple) challenge. I can't remember what variety it is, and it was bought as a maiden about 5 years ago - purple leaves, dark pink (almost magenta) blossom and finally this year dark red apples with pink flesh. Only they're not crab apple size (and the other crab apples are normal this year), they are HUGE - decent eating apple size. Nice (slightly unusual) flavour, slightly spongy texture rather than crisp. 

As I'm moving, I'd quite like to put it on the list for the next place!

ETA - I think it might be Harry Baker, but the fruits are HUGE for crab apples!

Try here: https://www.pippintrees.co.uk/search.aspx?ps=25

I didn't think YBE's photo was of a pyracantha because the leaves by the lower trunk looked rather too large, but I may be wrong.

RAS

Couple of possibilities greenbee. Check out Wisley Crab, or Tickled Pink, the latter is small (supermarket) eating apple size. Flavour is definitely not stand apple but is OK. 

twopenny

So, torrential downpours, one with hail, one without.

It's made any thoughts of gardening a non starter.

Roses like a lot of plants seem to think it's their second blooming time ( if the rain hasn't shattered them) and the mild temperatures see the tomatoes still coming. I guess by tomorrow they will have split again.

So with the early dark and heavy rain no photos today.

It's a weird world.

greenbee

Thanks all! I will take some photos when I’m back home. I have managed to track down that I bought it from Walcot Organic Nurseries in 2017 as I can find the emails about the delivery but not the order. It was definitely meant to be a crab apple, but does look very like Tickled Pink.

mind you,  I need to find a new garden (and house!) before I can do anymore planting!

Farway

Awful weather overnight, woke me up about 0330 it was so bad with wind & rain, a couple of casualties I can see from my front window, the dahlia pot has toppled half into next door and the castor oil plant is yet again lop sided and waiting to snare the Postle.

If weather improves, I'll pop out & fix those pair, apart from that no intention of gardening today

I did mooch down the garden yesterday, camera in hand, but nothing worth photographing at present. While there, I picked one of the Pinova apples that had a brown spot where something has had a go at it, they are not ripe enough to come easily off the tree, but this one was done for anyway. I sampled it this morning, and it would pass as OK ripe in a supermarket, but a few more weeks will improve them I think

2P my Sunburst toms are still coming along outside and splitting like mad. But now it's November I'm hoping to get a photo of a non popped one just to show

twopenny

Dentist first thing then drizzle and torrential rain with strong winds.
Finally gave in and put the heating on. Feeling 'under the weather' from doing too much and getting cold and wet. 

The only remote reference to gardening was stewing some hard eating apples I collect from roadside baskets that kind people share, and cutting some kale. 

So reaping more than sowing 

Good luck with the moving Greenbee. Are you taking lots of potted stuff with you?