A winter's afternoon in the linear orchard. Dormant apple trees back-lit by the setting sun. Walled garden, National Trust Quarry Bank, 13/01/26 #apples #orchard #NTQBfruit 📷: DT

You think you know Granny? Let me tell you about Granny. adamapples.blogspot.com/2026/01/blus...

Might actually try printing this one. Shot on my Fuji GFX 50SII with an old projection lens #fujigfx

My new years post, which will not make sense to everyone, is that it is better to be on social media with a blog than without. Blog space is a place for me to stand outside the algos and vicissitudes of corporate social. Sure bsky is pretty chill and I love you all but this place isn't mine.

There is a long tradition of using apples as Xmas decorations stemming from medieval Paradise Plays where they symbolised the forbidden fruit Paradise trees often fir morphed Xmas trees in UK when Prince Albert introduced German Christmas traditions. The apples morphed into Christmas decorations.

Have had

What do we have here? Guesses? Sound off in Awais’s replies

Harequin-Romance-character-named apple and unrelated story of queasy dyspepsia mashup (parse that!) is not what I expected from @chuckwendig.bsky.social today

pennock apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1912

Not yet calendar winter, astro winter, but definitely pomological winter, orchard winter already.

so is this apple either of these things?

Most Abstract Old Fruit Pictures evah

Are there any Sunrise magic apples left in December? Also: Good eating, but what a dumb name adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/12/sunr...

ramsdell sweet apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1904

Appl Sommelier strikes again:

Google sez Lucy Glo was my most-read apple review this past month. Go figure. #apples adamapples.blogspot.com/2019/11/lucy...

I hope Chuck forgives me for doing this but I can't resist, since I made this exact comparison, Rose v Glo

"Grandparent of Bramley": Tour de force story of science and apple sleuthing #apples

Yeah, I'd agree that those are not 'Ashmead's Kernel'. Here's a few of ours this year, all much rounder, all at least partially russeted.

The plot is really thick over these #apples, sold as Ashmead's Kernel despite no russet and other differences. (Read the comments.) adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/12/ashm...

Mine are prettier

Anyone for 'apple ginger'? Gertrude Mackay's 1913 recipe should result in a thick apple butter, flavoured with ginger and lemon. Ideal for serving with your Christmas goose. Or if you don't have four hours to stand and stir, you could try my quick method instead. orchardnotes.com/2025/12/04/g...

Welcome to Pomological Winter #apples adamapples.blogspot.com/2024/12/appl...

Porter’s Perfection set heavy clusters of fruit and in the early weeks after bloom the stems and base of the hypanthium of fruitlets that are close together can physically fuse The resulting mature apple is therefore a compound apple with a lobulated shape due to unequal growth of the fused parts

I like apples but this thing where the apples are the size of a baby head is too much.

Italian apple detective.

Worth clicking past the pop-ups and invoking Google Translate to read about this Dutch apple sleuth #apples

Still a few scruffy apples around - Pitmaston Pineapple I think? - which at this time of year, and after a couple of hard frosts, taste more of pear than anything else.

Great story about my state's premier annual apple and cider event! cider-review.com/2025/11/22/f...

cox orange apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1905

Chuck finally tells us how he feels. Video worth watching on this one for use.

Somewhere, it is spring.

Plums or apples? These are red-fleshed Robert’s Crab apples!

Yesterday's 50mph+ wind gusts: "Right you lot, let's be having you on the ground!" Apple 'Delbard Jubile', this afternoon: "Nope."

One of the very best russet apples I've ever had! And I can't tell for sure what it should be called. Even the UK's National Fruit Collection seems muddled about that. adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/11/roya...

Given the choice… Crow picks a patch of sun for snacking on apples😄

Two late season #apples adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/11/blon...

Tarte Tatin, meet...

It's that time of year again. Gather ye #apples wile ye may, for winter is coming. adamapples.blogspot.com/2021/11/hunt...

*Probably* the last apples of this year's harvest. *Probably*

Wow what a great photo. I greatly admire. Read the post, full of finest woolgathering matter.

There are, like 50 Limbertwig apples. all originating from southern Appalachia. Every Limbertwig I have tried has been a winner. adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/11/smok...

This is INSANE #apples

oh wow, if you think this is a lot of apples... may I recommend @adapples.bsky.social

A few days in the life of some of our apples. These will come back to Le Manoir as apple brandy in 5 years time. A big shout out to Capreolus distillery who we have worked with for a few years now. I love seeing the outcome of so much work over the growing year.

A great season for #apples is winding down: adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/11/nove...

So once again the mighty Howgate Wonder from the Orchard Notes orchard wins this year’s crown at 1lb 13oz (822g) 🏆 My own Bramley entry taking the Wooden Spoon at a puny 1lb 2oz (495g). Congratulations to all who entered. 🌱 @orchardnotes.com @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social @morningoak.bsky.social

I look for these old, great #apples every fall.

I'm trying to track down confidently identified trees of Monmouth Pippin (different than Monmouth Beauty) sometimes also called Red Cheek.

I don't know anyone who grows this where I live. Pedigree a bit of a surprise. adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/11/robi...