I only ever seem to have small quantities of fruit available to me as most is out of reach, would be lovely to have buckets of them one year to do all kinds of drink and pudding experiments! Good luck with seed, I always failed but a farmer told me he had success by cleaning the seeds before sowing.

The only thing I can compare the taste to is some kind of delicious fruit crumble, I love them! Not usually many hanging low enough for me to reach though :-(

Oops!

That's right, everyone else seems to know about them already it seems :-)

Super shot!

Going to try both, also grafting onto one of @ruckingemoths.bsky.social orchard trees as insurance against disasters!

Yep, presumably seedlings from discarded cores or the many orchards which used to be in the area. Curiously there are quite a lot of thorny young Pear Trees (so suggestive of pyraster) dotted along the East Stour Valley. Quite variable in form so I wonder if they originate from ornamental varieties.

No that's a fab tree but it's Pyrus communis rather than pyraster, I mean the one by the roadside on Birchett Lane which has been declared as a real deal pyraster. Used to have a 'V' shape but one of the sides collapsed a couple of years ago, now suckering vigorously. Easiest to find when in flower!

This thread has reminded me that I need to check to see if any fruit has fallen from the Orlestone Wild Pear, I want to grow some

It's a random seedling (wilding) rather than a named variety so it was just my description :-) I'm sure if it was taken into cultivation the sellers would come up with some fancier name! I really like hunting for decent tasting wild growing apples at this time of year.

I thought I recognised the view! If you picked up any other interesting records I know the warden would be interested to have them :-)

My local river (East Stour) is dreadfully low, possibly the worst I've ever seen.

I always get a gloomy feeling that Summer's more or less over when these start appearing!

I've often wondered what species the bait fish are when I encounter this, any idea?

Previously known as the Kent Tubic I think although I lose track of all these new names people are giving micros :-)

Thanks so much for coming, glad procerella turned up although somewhat annoyed I left before it appeared given that I haven't seen one yet this year!