Poor James Grieve..

..He's a very old variety of apple (raised by the pollination of a Pott's seedling or a Cox's Orange Pippin apple sometime before 1893).

At the Macclesfield Treacle Market we met a lovely man who made apple juice from many old varieties of apple, including this one. We knew we had a tree in the garden and it is a variety considered to be pretty disease resistant - so I'm not sure why it is suffering. (This garden we inherited from previous owners still holds many surprises).

It's (another) backblip.

I'm having a plodding patch (and visitors).