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

These fab plants deserve to be in every garden

Pears included in Elizabethan recipes are typically ‘wardens’ – hardy varieties that must be cooked before eating, their flesh blushing with a red hue and softening into buttery deliciousness. Tudor d

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

Long linked with Britain’s monarchs, gooseberries are surprisingly simple fruit to nurture at home