This compact tree, a variety of Malus pumila called ‘Flower of Kent, was sadly blown down by Storm Eunice in February 2022.
You can read more about this in our news story after the storm.
Malus pumila
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It was a scion of the original apple tree grown in the garden of Woolsthorpe Manor, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, which, it is said, inspired Sir Isaac Newton to formulate his theory of gravity by watching the fall of an apple from the tree. The theory (without apples) was published in Newton’s Principia in 1687.
The white blossom in spring
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In spring, the tree was covered in pink-flushed, white blossom, and sometimes produced a crop of not particularly tasty, disease-prone eating apples.
Grafted clones of this tree are currently in the Garden’s nursery and will be planted out when they are mature enough, so there will still be a Newton’s Apple tree in the Garden.
