no better thing to do than be coming l out here on a lovely day like today, i helping the community, i helping the environment can t do better than that, really. this has got an absolute amazing amount of different apples. i don t know any of their names. the boom in community orchards is bringing back hundreds of forgotten varieties of british apple. here at wisley gardens in surrey, apple detectivejim arbury s on a mission to identify them. by sight, touch and taste alone, he quickly recognised two mystery varieties from swan barn farm. i think this is court pendu plat, which is an old french apple, certainly from the middle ages or possibly even roman. this summer s heatwave and drought has caused problems for crops, but apples have fared relatively well and should be particularly sweet due to the sunshine. well, it s going to be a bumper year, so there s going to be a lot. but also, importantly, it s going to be really