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Articles with the tag "fruit"

Fruit trees

Fruit trees in your garden
by Colour Your Life
Fruit trees have to be one of the most rewarding things to have in your garden. Our forefathers lived off their produce and still today the fruit they bear plays a big part in our daily diets - one of the tastiest ways to get your ‘5 a day’! Apples, pears, apricots and cherries to mention but a few of the fantastic fruit bearing trees that can be suitable for gardens big or small. Fruit trees are beautiful when in blossom and bountiful when laden with fruit. What could be more satisfying than using your own fruit for your pies and jams with the surplus providing an excellent source of food and shelter for our wildlife.
Fantastic fruit (the easy way to five a day), with Malus and Pyrus

by CYL
I have never come across a Sugar Plum Tree but I have heard an equally magical and exciting idea that is being developed as we speak in the Beacon Hill area of Seattle, USA. The Food Forest is an innovative concept being rolled out in a public park which covers an area of about seven acres. Apparently this urban food oasis will be the first of its kind and will be planted with hundreds of different types of edibles from your common garden apples and pears to the more exotic guava and persimmons. And it doesn’t just stop at fruit trees – herbs, chestnuts, walnuts… who knows? It is like an Enid Blyton dream forest or a Eugene Field creation!