15-1-2018
A new year – a new project! Aphrodite’s Gardens is back in action and would like to introduce project “Braeburn Apple Tree”. The idea is to follow a young apple tree from the day of planting onward and to watch how it develops during the seasons and years.
Braeburn is my favourite apple variety, and I recently acquired a Braeburn tree from Future Forests.
It’s a 1 year old tree, grafted on an M26 root stock. More about grafts and root stocks will follow in another post.
1 year old means it’s a very young tree and there’s not much to see so far. And yet, it’s a tree with all the potential to grow leaves, side shoots, branches – and apples – in the years to come.

Photos: Tree before planting; the area on the stem were the tree was grafted; planted tree.