This week’s photo has a story behind it!
About 12 years ago A decided to put the pip from an apple he had eaten into some compost – just to see! As he tended and nurtured it, I, of course, told him that it would never bear fruit – you need to graft it etc…
look at it now! 🙂
A Year In Redwood 
Were you lucky in that it’s a low growing tree or has it been kept in check by pruning? I did the same, expected crabapples and got so many cookers every year a branch or two breaks off – it’s too big.
Hi Joy, we’ve not pruned it. This is how it has grown over the past 10 years. I am stunned that it has produced fruit, I always thought you had to graft apple trees! and the apples are really gorgeous from it! Divine intervention maybe!
I’ve never had any luck grafting apples but it was what I should have done to keep my tree within bounds.