Fruit

Elms Farm Organic Fruit

When we moved into Elms Farm in 2002, the orchard had only a few trees remaining. In the last five years we have replanted the 2 acres with 28 varieties of top fruit totalling over 650 trees - pear, plum apple, mulberry, quince & cherry

We selected varieties that would grow well organically as well as some traditional Worcestershire ones that will keep us in fruit from August to October.

APPLES:

- There are 12 varieties of apples, detailed below.

Worcester Pearmain: Dessert apple almost completely flushed brilliant red.
Picked early Sept.

Discovery: Popular dessert apple. Bright yellow base otherwise crimson.
Picking time August.

Greensleeves: Golden Delicious type apple. Skin pale green with some russeting. Fruits crunchy and sweet when eaten fresh.
Picked mid Sept.

Lord Lambourne: Regular heavy cropping apple. Flushed and striped red over green/yellow base. Sweet, juicy and aromatic.
Picked in Sept.

Charles Ross: Good-looking large dual-purpose apple. Yellow green flushed orange red Sweet-flavoured eater that bakes well.
Picking time mid Sept.

Ashmead Kernel: A yellowish-green apple with brown russet. Yellow flesh with crisp acid flavour.
Picking time is October.

Cevaal: Cox type of apple yellow skin flushed red very tasty.
Picked late Sept.

Egremont Russet: Most popular russet, golden skin with large areas of brown russet. Crisp flavour, nutty and sweet.
Picked late Sept.

Adams Pearmain: Well-flavoured apple - nutty, aromatic and keeps well. Golden yellow skin largely covered crimson red.
Picked in October.

Bramley: The most well-known cooker. Large fruits with yellow green skin colour

Winston: A late apple with green yellow skin flushed red

Rajka: Medium sized attractive bright smooth red apples. Yellowish firm but juicy of excellent flavour

Pears : 7 varieties

Conference: Medium sized and elegantly tapered. Yellow green skin with areas of brown russet. Flesh yellow, juicy and sweet.

Concorde: Compact and heavy fruiting. Medium sized yellow pears with russetting. Sweet, juicy, melting pale yellow flesh.

Buerre Hardy: Medium to large fruits coloured russet brown with faint red. Very juicy with a good flavour.

Louise Borne Of Jersey: Medium sized Yellow green fruits flushed red. Juicy sweet white flesh

Beth Quince: Small, smooth fruits that turn pale yellow. Flesh creamy white, juicy of good flavour.

Onward Quince: Smooth fruits yellow green fruits flushed red. Flesh creamy white, juicy of excellent flavour

Vranja (Quince): Large pale green yellow fruits

Plums: 4 varieties

Victoria: Well-known plum. Pale red skin, yellowish green flesh. Self-fertile

Marjories Seedling: Latest cropping plum with large deep purple fruits with a blue bloom. Can be cooked or eaten.

Early Prolific: Small dark purple plum. Good quality early plum. When ripe good as a dessert plum. Makes good jam.

Farleigh Damsen: Dessert /culinary plum producing small oval blue black fruit 5

Cherries 4 varieties

Sunburst: A sweet, self fertile cherry producing black fruits of excellent flavour in late July.

Lapin Gisela: Heart shaped, deep purple sweet cherries

Summer Sun: Produces dark red cherries of excellent flavour

Merton Glory Gisela

Mulberry: 1 variety, 3 trees

Mulberry: A rare tree in the UK beautiful red fruit with exceptional taste