What's at the core of Britain's homegrown apple crisis?
A shortage of workers, increased production costs and the desire for ‘perfect’ fruit has seen our heritage varieties elbowed out of the way
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A shortage of workers, increased production costs and the desire for ‘perfect’ fruit has seen our heritage varieties elbowed out of the way
The ‘Souvenir du Docteur Jamain’ rose was rescued from a derelict nursery Credit: Gap Gardens Shopping for plants is one of my core horticultural skills. I have been putting this retail expertise into practice recently by ordering bare-root roses for a revamp of my tired, geranium-fixated London front garden. Given the fact I have just published a book about Sissinghurst, perhaps it was only natural that I should be drawn to the “old” shrub roses that Vita Sackville-West championed. She ventured that the petals “recall the brocades of ecclesiastical vestments, the glow of mosaics, t...