Apple tree blooming in October!

This apple tree is an Egremont Russet on an M25 rootstock.  Grass clippings are piled up around it to suppress weeds organically -- except the self-sown beetroot and rocket.  Birds and the foxes dig up the composting clippings for worms.  It's all very synergistic.

The poor apple tree is confused by the weather.  It thinks that it is Spring already and has started to bloom!  What this will mean for next year's apple crop remains to be seen.