The Orchard

The orchard at Forest Farm has over 60 fruit trees — mostly apples (eating, cooking and cider), but also pear, plum, gage, cherry and a medlar. Many of the trees have been ‘adopted’, several in memory of family members. (If you’d like to adopt a tree, please get in touch.)

The orchard at Forest Farm
The orchard at hay-raking time

The table below shows where specific trees are planted in the orchard, looking from the Wardens Centre end, with the Taff Trail on the left, and Forest Farm Road on the right.

Trees are eating apples, unless otherwise stated.

Morgan Sweet (Cider)     Brith Mawr
(Cooking,
Cider)
  Machen
Lord Lambourne Saint Cecilia Saint Cecilia Pitmasten Pineapple Brownlees Russet Lord Lambourne
Brownlees Russet Gravenstein
(Cooking)
Kenneth Pig Aderyn
(Dessert,
Cider)
Prenglas
(Dessert,
Cooking)
Cissy
Winter Nelis (Pear) Concorde (Pear) Enlli (Eng:Bardsey) Rosemary Russet Bakers Delicious Marged Nicholas
Louise Bonne (Pear) Conference (Pear) Ashmead’s Kernel Gwŷr (Eng:Channel Beauty) Glansevin Mother
Sunset Claygate Pearmain Beth (Pear) Pen Caled (Cider) Pig Yr Wydd (Cooker) Tin Yr Gwydd (Cooker)
Royal Jubilee (Cooker) Conference (Pear) Victoria (Plum) Beauty of Bath Brith Mawr (Cooking, Cider) Sweetheart (Cherry)
Cummy Norman (Cider) Perthyre (Cider) Twyn Y Sherrif (Cider) Broom Sweet (Cider) Frederick (Cider) Early Transparent (Gage)
Merryweather (Gage) Bramley’s Seedling (Cooker) Damson Merryweather (Plum) Duke of Devonshire Stella
(Cherry)
Opal
(Plum)
Laxton’s Superb Stella (Cherry) Jonagold Discovery Jonagored Supra James Grieve
Perthyre
(Cider)
Monmouth Green Gelli Aur
(Cooker)
Talgarth Medlar  
Malus sp. Prunus domestica (Hauszwersche) Malus sp.