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     Top Working Apple Trees
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    By Alan Down
    In Fruit, Gardening, Gardening tips, Grafting, Grow your own, Plant Propagation
    Posted July 10, 2026

    Top Working Apple Trees

    Top working apple trees is something I hadn’t practised for over fifty years! So when we found two large and rather nondescript cider apple trees in our garden I was faced with a dilemma! [...]

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     The Benefit of Grafted Plants
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    By Alan Down
    In Fruit, Ornamental trees, Plant Propagation, Vegetables
    Posted June 2, 2020

    The Benefit of Grafted Plants

    In this blog I’ll reveal the benefit of grafted plants to the gardener. Because nurserymen put in the hard graft so that gardeners benefit from better plants to grow! Let me explain. A [...]

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    About Alan

    Flora and fauna have always fascinated me but it was a lifelong career in horticulture that filled most days.

    Having grown up on a farm where boyhood days were filled with discoveries of the natural world I soon found that my passion for plants – wildflowers at that time – would direct my career…

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