Apple, Malus domestica, trees were wassailed in Morden Hall Park, a National Trust property in the London Borough of Merton, on Saturday 25 January 2025, a bright and sunny afternoon.

Each tree had a piece of toast placed on it, and cider poured at the base of its trunk.  Then people were encouraged to join in the Wassail Blessing:

No fire touch thee                                                No water drown thee                                          No blight affect thee                                            No beast best thee                                                                                                        Good apple tree

Old Apple tree                                    We Wassail thee                                  And hoping thou bear hatfuls, capfuls                                                Three bushel sack fulls                      And little heaps under the stairs.

Hoooooraaaah!

When each of the trees had received attention people were asked to make a big noise, before they moved off to another part of the Park for refreshments, and the event concluded with a lively performance by the Carshalton-based Black Swan Border Morris.  This side dresses in black and purple costumes, the black relating to the black swans which local landowner and MP, Sam Gurney, imported from Australia in 1851, and purple commemorating the lavender, Lavandula angustifolia, for which the area was at one time famous.