After a few days of glorious late, summer weather we’re back to autumn and the poet John Keats’ ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’.
The Katya or Katy apples are one of the first varieties to ripen. It’s tricky to free one fruit from a tight packed cluster without sending the whole lot tumbling to the ground.
Two photos taken yesterday under an umbrella as the mist turned to drizzle.
Beyond the Window Box 
September 10, 2021 at 7:54 am
You’re going to have to stop posting glorious pictures from your garden, as I have serious apple envy, and something’s happened in the shops and markets. Few English apples are coming on stream (I know it’s still quite early, but not impossibly so), and none of them the traditional varieties I remember from my youth. Oops, sorry. Rant over.
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September 10, 2021 at 8:08 am
As slight reassurance, our Discovery crop failed this year – just two apples on two trees – so it may have been a bad year for that variety elsewhere. It’s usually the first English apple in the market. There may yet be English apples to come! That said I do agree that many traditional varieties are impossible to find commercially now and southern hemisphere imports compete with UK produce on the shelves even in autumn.
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September 10, 2021 at 8:46 am
Yup, I only bought one lot of Discoveries this year, and they were late, and not good. I gathered the crop had largely failed. No James Grieve yet. There rarely are …
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