Growing fruit in the garden here is done primarily to provide food for ourselves, but there is the added bonus of feeding our local wildlife. At the moment we have apples, plums, damsons and pears to pick (and store in some way) but those that are not good enough to keep or have already started to break down are being visited by butterflies – red admirals and speckled woods, birds – blackbirds and chaffinches especially, and small mammals especially bank voles. As the weather gets colder this free source of natural food will be much in demand as will the berries on hawthorn, dogwood and holly. This means in years when I am overwhelmed by our fruit crop (as I am this autumn) and feel less guilty about leaving some fruit untouched.
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