An exquisite colour, a rave for flower arrangers, soft apricot pink with a touch of white. With excellent vigour and free flowering over a very long season, the tall plants also mix well in perennial borders. Lovely for cutting. Grow in full sun. Flowers summer. Height 12m (3-4ft)
For a reliable and beautiful display of summer annuals in planter and garden borders, Geranium 'Horizon F1 Appleblossom' is a great choice.
The most stunning of Crab Apple trees maybe? Malus 'Prairifire' boasts reddish-magenta blossom in spring, accompanied by purple foliage which later turns green.
The Pineapple Plant (Ananas Comosus) makes an interesting and on-trend feature in your home with a decorative pineapple growing from the top! Long sword-like spiny green leaves give way to a sturdy stalk with the fruit held in the centre. The dwarf pineapples produced are an ornamental rather than an edible fruit. The Pineapple Plant is a sun lover so pop it on a sunny windowsill to be appreciated.
Apple 'Discovery' is a well known dessert variety with a fine, sweet flavour that brings to mind a hint of strawberries. Although often found in supermarkets, it has a short storage potential of just a couple of weeks, so it is best eaten when picked fresh from the tree.
Braeburn is a first class dessert apple - crisp without being hard, and very juicy. This variety can be harvested in October and stores very well.
A superb RHS AGM variety that makes a fantastic cooking apple and a delicious dessert apple too! Harvest the fruits in early September for refreshingly sharp apples that hold their shape well during cooking. A few weeks later the fruits mature, taking on a sweet flavour and soft texture that makes the perfect dessert fruit.
A mid-season dessert apple producing a heavy crop of distinctive russet-bronze fruits, with firm, crisp flesh and a rich, nutty flavour which makes it perfect for juicing and tarts and also an excellent apple for the cheese board!
A juicy, refreshingly sweet apple that is instantly recognisable by its deep maroon colour. Apple 'Spartan' is also an excellent pollinator for other apple trees and so is extremely useful in any collection.