Peter Dowdall: Planting memories, not just apples

As well as producing food, apple trees are rooted in our culture

In Irish folklore, the apple tree is one of the three sacred trees.

Last year I took myself and my daughter off to the garden centre, and for the first time she chose some fruit trees to plant.

We came home with two apple trees, a Cox’s orange pippin and a Discovery, along with a plum tree and a few blueberry bushes. It was her first foray into gardening, and I think she humoured me at the time more than anything else.