NT Killerton, Devon – October 2014

National Trust Killerton, Devon is one of their flagship properties. There are some very ancient Sweet Chestnuts (Castenea), producing a bumper crop of nuts this year.

One of the Sweet Chestnuts is huge, with some branches being propped up.

We were 1 day after the ‘Apple Day’ therefore the remnants of the cider pressings were lying about. also one of the trees was dressed up.

Yet again very few trees were labeled. Some had a label saying ‘Old Cider Tree’ others had ‘Modern Cider Tree’ The only varieties names were 3 trees with Egremont Russet.