Sharon Hockenhull created this gorgeous hot plot for famous chef Antonio Carluccio. She tells F&F readers all about this stylish kitchen garden.

‘Medlar’ and ‘bletting’ are the sort of words you pull out to impress your friends in the pub. But how much more impressive to grow one of these funny-looking forgotten fruits and eat the fabulous honey-flavoured flesh. Meet the odd-looking medlar.

Normally, our Collector’s Item feature focuses on rare and unusual plants. But this month, we’ve got a special edition looking at apples. These unusual cultivars are held by the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale.

Sarah Bird gets excited about local food growing, and makes some rather fabulous containers in her latest Fresh Gardener post.

Not all of us are blessed with sun-kissed gardens, but a slightly shady patch doesn’t mean you still can’t grow a beautiful, bountiful crop of fruit. Although nothing will crop in full shade, there are still plenty of fruit and veg that thrive in the less shiny parts of your garden. Here’s our list.

Growing grapes isn’t as tricky as you might think. If you’ve got a sunny, sheltered garden, then it’s actually rather easy to establish a vine which will happily produce a big enough crop to make your own wine (and who wouldn’t want that?). Here’s our guide.

The ever-talented Vegalicious team crated this superb apricot almond tart with blackcurrants and lavender syrup. Here’s how to make a delicious seasonal dessert.

Fancy some sea buckthorn jelly? In fact, have you even heard of sea buckthorn? If you haven’t, you’re missing out on a beautiful shrub with gorgeous foliage and a spectacular autumn display of berries. Find out how to grow it here.

Black mulberries are a fabulous fruit shrouded in folklore and romance. Here’s F&F’s guide to growing Morus nigra, as well as some stunning recipe ideas.

‘Polka’ raspberries may be relatively new, but they’re the best cultivar we’ve ever grown, with big fat juicy fruits. Find out why they’ll make you go weak at the knees.

This year, the cherry tree in our garden gave us a mythical-sized crop. The fat waddling wood pigeon who normally scoffs every single fruit on the branches has disappeared to some great orchard elsewhere, and so in the evenings after work, I clambered onto chairs and picked huge bowlfuls. The tree is full sized, which [...]

{Ryan’s Rare Plants} Image courtesy of Solana Seeds This is a plant for superfood and gourmet veg fans. Jaltomata procumbens (jaltomato) is a relatively rare fruit with the potential for great things. This South American fruit, with a sweet, spicy taste similar to grapes or tomatoes, is could make for an exciting new addition to [...]