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Grow

unusual

edibles!

Enjoy tasty treats from
unconventional sources

WordsKaren Murphy
e it border shrubs and bedding blooms, or more
recognisable fruiting bushes, there are lots of tasty
B treats you can grow this year. Fear not if you
haven’t got a fruit patch, simply pack your beds with
edible plants! We’ve also chosen a few old fruiting
favourites, revamped for new taste, colour and form.

New ways with old favourites:

Try these unusual selections

Alamy

Raspberry ‘Autumn Amber’ Greencurrant ‘Greenlife’

A perennial fruiter, this gorgeous golden raspberry is A delicious, sweet currant that lacks the usual red-black pigment,
practically thornless and is high-yielding. This has been this is an a ractive, leafy currant with unusual berries. A fabulous
well-bred at the famous fruit research institute at East addition to the fruit bowl, which has the added bonus of being
Malling in Kent to be highly resistant to disease and to fruit una ractive to the spo ed wing drosophila (fruit flies) because of
every year. A delicious, eye-catching, apricot-coloured its colour. It has been detected in our gardens recently and prefers
treat for autumn! Plant now for this year’s fruit. to a ack unripe black or red fruit. Plant now po ed or bare-root.
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22 Garden News /January 27 2018