National Fruit Collection

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National Fruit Collection
Orchards at Brogdale Farm (geograph 2588645).jpg
Orchards at Brogdale Farm
National Fruit Collection is located in Kent
National Fruit Collection
Location in Kent
LocationBrogdale, Kent, England
Coordinates51°18′01″N 0°52′45″E / 51.300323°N 0.879160°E / 51.300323; 0.879160Coordinates: 51°18′01″N 0°52′45″E / 51.300323°N 0.879160°E / 51.300323; 0.879160
Area150 acres (61 ha)
Owned byDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Managed byUniversity of Reading
Plants> 3,500 varieties
Websitewww.nationalfruitcollection.org.uk Edit this at Wikidata

The United Kingdom's National Fruit Collection is one of the largest collections of fruit trees and plants in the world. Over 2,040 varieties of apple, 502 of pear, 350 of plum, 322 of cherry and smaller collections of bush fruits, nuts and grapes are grown, in 150 acres (61 ha) of orchards.[1]

It has been curated and maintained at Brogdale Farm, Brogdale, Kent since 1952 and is owned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).[2] The University of Reading took over day-to-day maintenance of the collection in 2008.[3]

The collection includes two trees or bushes of each variety, in case one is lost.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ British Broadcasting Corporation : 17 August 2006 : A Tour Around Kent's Garden of Eden Retrieved 26 June 2010
  2. ^ "National Fruit Collection". www.nationalfruitcollection.org.uk. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
  3. ^ a b Campbell, Sophie (2008). "National Fruit Collection in tug of love". Retrieved 25 September 2017.

External links[]

Official website Edit this at Wikidata

"Orchard Archives: The National Fruit Collection" by Dr Joan Morgan in Studies in the History of British Fruit, part 2 in Occasional Papers from the RHS Lindley Library, volume 7, March 2021

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