The Nuttery ORGD03 Original Seed Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder, Ocean Green

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Broadview’ and ‘Franquette’ are reliable, early yielding, delicious cultivars. ‘Rita’ is smaller than most Belle Epine’, ‘Bouche de Bétizac’, ‘Marigoule’, ‘Marlhac’. ‘Marigoule’ is the most reliable partially self-fertile variety A simple definition would be to call it an orchard where nuts are grown instead of, or as well as, fruit trees.

There are many different nuts, some easier to grow in the UK than others. Here, we’ll have a little look at the four which are going to be the easiest to grow outside in your garden. Although which ones you choose will depend upon where you live, the size of your garden and whether you have , for example, a heated greenhouse. Although the most tender of these four nut trees, Almond, Prunus dulcis, should still provide you with a crop even in an ‘average’ summer. Give them a sunny sheltered spot and frost protection. Their pretty pale pink blossom flowers on bare stems, and a late frost can be highly detrimental! Encourage insect pollinators with plenty of winter and early spring flowering shrubs. Also known as white walnut. Hardiest of the walnut family. Partially self-fertile and can be pollinated by walnuts and especially heartnutsBut there is, or can be, a lot more to a nutteries than that short description. Which is a good thing, as not that many gardeners have sufficient garden space for a separate nuttery and orchard with full size trees. And nut trees are, for the most part, large trees when full grown. Many excellent choices within hazels, filberts, cobnuts, including white filbert and ‘Webb’s Prize Cob’ Located in the centre of the beautiful Cotswold village of Notgrove is a popular cafe for cycling groups of all sizes, serving up delicious home cooked breakfasts, lunches, daily specials, cakes and coffee. With a huge number of tables both inside and out it’s ideal for cycling groups of all sizes as you can see by our photos, on a Sunday morning you can be sure of good company, coffee and cake. Advanced bookings are most welcome and encouraged for larger cycling clubs. Most walnuts can take up to 10 years to produce, but try these cultivars for a crop at a younger age –

Opting for a specially-made squirrel proof seed , peanut or suet bird feeder can help to resolve this issue. These are built using cages, to stop squirrels from being able to get to feeder ports. If using a ground feeding station to feed birds, you can also use a removable cage that is placed over the feeder. Finally, squirrels can frighten birds -- especially smaller birds . If you are putting out food so that you can spot smaller, rarer UK garden birds , this can cause an issue. If close to water, try varieties such as ‘Broadview’ that are resistant to leaf blotch and walnut blight It can be difficult to stop squirrels from getting into your bird feeding station or feeder. They are very agile creatures and can easily climb feeder poles .If you’re planting more than a few nut trees, make a scaled plan on graph paper; consider planting in alternate rows, offset so that the pattern of trees is in triangles rather than squares, allowing rows to be closer, but also maintaining the distance between trees

if you have room, grow one of the larger nut trees as a specimen tree – and of course it will provide shade, food for wildlife as well as a harvest for youCommercial nut growing has also been part of the food production for a few hundred years, especially in Kent, Nottingham, Gloucestershire, Sussex and Suffolk. Although we think of these as nutteries, the term plat or nut plat is more commonly used in southern England. Beatrix bought Hill Top with the proceeds of her first book (Picture: National Trust) (Image: National Trust)