Marlborough pre-schoolers have helped to plant an apple tree that started life around the same time as they did, as part of the town’s Community Orchard initiative.
Children at St Mary’s Under Fives helped to plant a Christmas Pippin in the grounds of the school. The sapling had grown from a pip planted in 2007 by Leader Janet Hobson and her husband Neville, to celebrate National Apple Day’s eighteenth birthday and the publishing of The Apple Source book.
The planting of the sapling brought the number of new apple trees in the town to 34. Other recent editions include a Grenadier in the grounds of Highfield residential home and a Charles Ross, a classic late Victorian variety, which was planted in St Peter’s churchyard on Good Friday.
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