This year’s unusual weather has nurtured exceptional fruit crops, reports Ian Hodgson

THE apple crops up in many world religions, mythologies and traditions. It is a supermarket best-seller and this year, we are relishing a bumper crop boasting a fine skin finish and a tasty, sweet fla

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Dundee is famous for being the birthplace of the commercial development of marmalade in Scotland. The widely accepted story claims that in the 18th century, a Scottish grocer named James Keiller bough

Vibrant fruits and berries are now starting to keep our gardens bursting with colour – but many come with myths and secrets!

If you want to plant a light woodland–perhaps underplanted with wild primroses and bluebells–or are looking for a luminous specimen tree for the garden, consider a birch, advises Charles Quest-Ritson