The Dornfelder wine grape will probably not succeed in this country, Alan Rowe writes in a piece on your main web site, but this is not my experience. Dornfelder grows very happily in many English vineyards – including ours at Plumpton College in Sussex – and (with care and no over-extraction) it makes a delightfully [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Dornfelder Grape – does it thrive in England?
Posted in Fruit Questions on March 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
St Anns Allotments, Nottingham: any fruit memories?
Posted in Fruit Questions, News on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A new survey is about to take place on the St Anns Allotments in Nottingham to explore its orchard history and to find out the diversity and numbers of varieties still existing.
The grade 2* listed St Anns Allotments is the oldest and largest area of detached town gardens in Britain. Many old features still exist [...]
‘Prunus mume’ – the first fruit blossom of the year
Posted in Articles, Fruit Questions on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This notice board in the Beijing Botanic Garden stands at the entrance to their collection of Prunus mume or ‘Mei’, which is known in the west as the ornamental Japanese apricot and sometimes Chinese plum. Prunus mume is the ‘plum’ blossom of Chinese paintings and one of the ‘Four Gentlemen of Flowers’ in Chinese art, [...]
