"sweet, lightly acidic taste with a slight strawberry flavour. They generally have good keeping qualities. Discovery (apple) 'Discovery' is an early season dessert apple cultivar. One of its parents was the 'Worcester Pearmain', with the pollinator thought to possibly be 'Beauty of Bath'. 'Discovery' was first introduced to the market by the Suffolk nurseryman Jack Matthews. In around 1949, George Dummer, a fruit farm worker from Blacksmiths Corner, Langham, Essex, raised several apple seedlings from an open-pollinated 'Worcester Pearmain'. He decided to transplant the best of the apples into his front garden, although the young tree was left unplanted and"
"grass in the most exposed regions, with a succession of plants following on as the marsh becomes more established: first sea aster, then mainly sea lavender, with sea purslane in the creeks, and smaller areas of sea plantain and other common marsh plants. Six previously unknown diatom species were found in the waters around the point in 1952, along with six others not previously recorded in Britain. European glasswort is picked between May and September and sold locally as ""samphire"". It is a fleshy plant which when blanched or steamed has a taste which leads to its alternative name of"
"The tree survived and later came to the attention of Matthews, who took grafts and developed it (initially under the names 'Dummer's Pippin' and 'Thurston August') before releasing it to commerce under the name 'Discovery' in 1962. By the 1980s it had become the main early variety in the UK, though became rarer in later years as imports supplanted early apples in the market. The fruits are typically similar in appearance to its parent 'Worcester Pearmain', being small-medium in size, with small patches of yellow and largely flushed with crimson, sometimes completely covering the fruit, but tend to be slightly"
"Kingdom for hedging, especially in coastal districts. Its red berries are attractive to a wide variety of British birds. The plant continues to grow wild in UK hedgerows. On 15 January 2003, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs launched a project to improve the regulations protecting traditional countryside hedgerows, and specifically mentioned Duke of Argyll's Tea Tree as one of the species to be found growing in hedges located in Suffolk Sandlings, Hadleigh, Bawdsey, near Ipswich, and Walberswick. Importation of mature ""Licium barbarum"" plants into the United Kingdom from most countries outside Europe is illegal, due to the"
"and export potential. Ningxia goji is the variety used by practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine. Wolfberries are celebrated each August in Ningxia with an annual festival coinciding with the berry harvest. Originally held in Ningxia's capital, Yinchuan, the festival has been based since 2000 in Zhongning County. Besides Ningxia, commercial volumes of wolfberries grow in the Chinese regions of Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Hebei. ""Lycium barbarum"" had been introduced in the United Kingdom in the 1730s by The Duke of Argyll, but the plant was mostly used for hedges and decorative gardening. The UK Food Standards Agency"
"in Britain, founded by William Roscoe in 1802. Amongst the tropical plants is the National Collection of ""Dracaena"" (dragon trees); there are orchids and the National Collection of ""Codiaeum""; pelargoniums and the National Collection of ""Solenostemon"" (coleus) as well as a rich collection of bromeliads. Liverpool was once world-famous for its orchids as the collection is composed mainly of wild collected species rather than the more usual garden hybrids. In March 2013, it was announced that a £400,000 programme would be undertaken to restore the damaged Queen Anne wing which was gutted by fire in 1952. Liverpool City Council announced"
"gardening. Glenn was born in the United Kingdom to a family with a history of gardening. He emigrated to Australia in the 1960s. David and his still-life painter wife, Criss Canning, established Lambley in 1987. Prior to this time Glenn conducted a wholesale plant nursery at Olinda in Melbourne's, Dandenong Ranges. The name of the garden refers to Glenn's childhood home, Lambley Village in Nottinghamshire in the east midlands region of England in the United Kingdom. Plants selected by Glenn are grown throughout the world. The patented Euphorbia x martini 'Ascot Rainbow' is to be found in gardens throughout Europe"
"ye leave some for the next comer?'"" (""A Summer Visit to the West of Ireland in 1846."" p. 99). The ""true"" London pride is a hybrid between ""Saxifraga umbrosa"", native to the Spanish Pyrenees, and ""Saxifraga spathularis"" (which is the plant to which the name St Patrick's Cabbage more correctly belongs, coming from western Ireland). The hybrid has been known at least since the 17th century. The name is sometimes applied to any of several closely related plants of the saxifrage genus. The section ""Gymnopera"" of the genus ""Saxifraga"" are collectively referred to as ""London Pride saxifrages"", and others of"
"for having the sin of pride. When told the flower had the name because Londoners were proud of it he wrote another poem apologising to it. Saxifraga × urbium London pride, Saxifraga ""×"" urbium, is a perennial garden flowering plant. Alternative names for it include St. Patrick's cabbage, whimsey, prattling Parnell, and look up and kiss me. Before 1700 the “London pride” appellation was given to the Sweet William. In 1846, Theresa Cornwallis West made a journey to Ireland. Near Dunloe in County Kerry ""heareabouts grew quantities of our London Pride, and upon my expressing a wish for some roots"
"reported by Peter Collinson as having flowered first in England in Dr John Fothergill's extensive botanical garden and greenhouses at Upton House, Essex (now West Ham Park), in 1765. ""On leaving Bursa ... There was on the road a small tree bearing a fruit somewhat bigger than our largest cherries, and of the shape and taste of strawberries, but a little acid. It is pleasant to eat; but, if a great quantity be eaten, it mounts to the head, and intoxicates. It is ripe in November and December."" Editor's footnote: ""From the description, it seems to be the arbutus Andrachne."""
"ground flora includes Dog's Mercury (""Mercurialis perennis""), Bluebell (""Hyacinthoides non-scripta""), Stinking Iris (""Iris foetidissima""), Traveller's Joy (""Clematis vitalba"") and Slender False Brome (""Brachypodium sylvaticum""). Cleeve Wood, Hanham Cleeve Wood, Hanham is a () is an 8.9 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in South Gloucestershire, notified in 1966. Cleeve Wood is situated on the steep south facing slopes of the River Avon valley near to the City of Bristol. The primary scientific interest of the wood is the particularly large population of Bath Asparagus (""Ornithogalum pyrenaicum"") which it supports. The Bath Asparagus in Cleeve Wood represents what is"
"it is not closely related to the true bluebells), and the southern European ""Campanula medium"", commonly known as Canterbury bells (a popular garden plant in the United Kingdom). As well as several species occurring naturally in the wild in northern Europe, there are many cultivated garden species. The cultivars 'Misty Dawn' and 'Kent Belle' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. The species ""Campanula rapunculus"", commonly known as rampion bellflower, rampion, or rover bellflower, is a biennial vegetable which was once widely grown in Europe for its spinach-like leaves and radish-like roots. The Brothers Grimm's tale Rapunzel"
"by Margery Fish who developed the garden at East Lambrook Manor. 'Lambrook Mist' was selected about 30 years later by Andrew Norton, a subsequent owner of the garden. Both gained their AGMs (Award of Garden Merit) during the RHS Artemisia Trial 1991–3. Cultivar 'Silver Ghost' is a taller silver plant which flowers much later (August – September) than typical absinthium (June – July) in UK and therefore holds its silver appearance for longer. This and a more feathery leaved cultivar 'Persian Lace' were selected by National Collection Holder John Twibell in the 1990s. It is an ingredient in the spirit"
"can be found near rivers, irrigation canals and road ditches. In Aragon mirabelle plums are called ""cascasbeles"". In England, mirabelles grow both wild and cultivated in Essex, and there are yellow, orange and red varieties in Maylandsea and at Alresford in Hampshire. The Metz variety grows wild in Suffolk at Leathes' Ham, near Oulton Broad. One tree can also be found growing wild in North West England in Liverpool, and several may be found in the Buckinghamshire town of Milton Keynes. Red and yellow varieties have also been found recently in an ancient hedge row just outside Northampton. A lone"
"Wood and Meadow opened in 2017. There are plans to open more new areas, including Heather Hill and Cae Poeth Meadow. Bodnant Garden is visited by around 190,000 people every year and is famous for its Laburnum arch, the longest in the UK, which flowers in May and June. The garden is also celebrated for its link to the plant hunters of the early 1900s whose expeditions formed the base of the garden's four National Collections of plants – ""Magnolia"", ""Embothrium"", ""Eucryphia"" and ""Rhododendron forrestii"". The garden’s founder, Henry Davis Pochin, was a Leicestershire-born Victorian industrial chemist who acquired fame"
"slightly higher moisture content. When young it is springy and mild but as it matures subtle sweet flavours develop and the texture becomes firmer. Its claim to fame is that the first creamery in the UK was set up by a group of farmers in the village of Longford, Derbyshire – the farmers having agreed to pool their milk and have the cheese made on a larger scale using techniques that had been developed in the US. The most common variety available is Sage Derby, a herb-flavoured Derby that has the traditional light ivory/yellow colour with blended light green areas"
"(white, yellow, brown, crimson and every intermediate shade) and clays with layers of lignite and ferruginous sandstone. Similar beds are visible at Bournemouth and in the neighborhood of Poole, Wareham, Corfe Castle and Studland. The leaf-bearing clays of Alum Bay and Bournemouth are well known and have yielded a large and interesting series of plant remains, including ""Eucalyptus"", ""Caesalpinia"", ""Populus"", ""Platanus"", ""Sequoia"", ""Aralia"", ""Polypodium"", ""Osmunda"", ""Nipadites"" and many others. The clays of this formation are of great value for pottery manufacture; they are extensively mined near Wareham and Corfe, whence they are shipped from Poole and are consequently known as"
"a continuous floristic variation is seen. A widespread type on the plain is characterised by an abundance of red fescue (""Festuca rubra""), crested hair-grass (""Koeleria macrantha""), salad burnet (""Sanguisorba minor""), lady's bedstraw (""Galium verum""), rough hawkbit (""Leontodon hispidus""), common rock-rose (""Helianthemum nummularium"") and dropwort (""Filipendula vulgaris""). The high constancy of this last species is a distinctive feature of the upright brome grasslands on Salisbury Plain and is otherwise only known from one other site in Hampshire. Where upright brome is less dominating, plants such as small scabiosa (""Scabiosa columbaria""), clustered bellflower (""Campanula glomerata""), dyer's greenweed (""Genista tinctoria""), kidney vetch (""Anthyllis"
"Flower of Kent The Flower of Kent is a green cultivar of cooking apple. According to the story, this is the apple Isaac Newton saw falling to ground from its tree, inspiring his laws of universal gravitation. It is pear-shaped, mealy, and sub-acid, and of generally poor quality by today's standards. As its name suggests, this cultivar likely originated from Kent, England. Though now largely gone from commercial cultivation, a handful of Flower of Kent trees remain. Most, if not all, are said to descend from trees at Newton's Woolsthorpe Manor, and nearly all currently in existence descend from a"
"(Akocanthera oppositifolia: S. Africa), native sweet pittosporum (P.undulatum), sweet bay/bay laurel (Laurus nobilis: Mediterranean) and Cook's pine (Araucaria columnaris: New Caledonia: a specimen on the lawn). North of the house and flanking the western side of the shrubbery to the creek are a large number of tall mature palms and emergent trees, including Lord Howe Island palms (Kentia fosteriana), bangalow/piccabeen palms (Archontophoenix cunninghamiana), cabbage tree palms (Livistona australis), Californian desert/fan palms (Washingtonia robusta), native frangipani (Hymenosporum flavum), soft tree ferns (Cyathea sp.), Bunya pine (Araucaria bidwillii), hoop pine (A.cunninghamii). The pleasure garden with its expansive lawns and shrubbery of exotic"
"has not been previously recorded in the United Kingdom. Another site was then discovered in Denbighshire. The plant grows in mountainous regions in central and southern Europe, and its alternative name is alpine woundwort. When the reserve was purchased only a few limestone woundwort plants remained. Dr M Martin (Bristol University) grew some from local seed. These were transplanted into the site. In a good season, a number of flowering spikes can be seen beneath the hedgerow on the site. The hedgerow supports a diverse woodland flora which includes wood anemone, bluebell, ramsons (wood garlic), nettle-leaved bellflower and wood millet."
"botanical specimens from the Pacific. These he transported to the West Indies, specimens being given to the Royal Botanic Gardens in St. Vincent. This expedition was a success, returning to the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew with 1,283 plants including varieties of apple, pear, oranges and mangoes. In addition to these specimens, the expedition accomplished many observations and cartographic surveys in the South Seas. A mission to the South Seas and Pacific Northwest coast of America. In 1791, left England with . Both ships anchored at Cape Town before exploring the south coast of Australia. In King George Sound, the Discovery's"
"in England and Wales. Other lichens rarities include ""Bombyliospora pachycarpa"", ""Graphina ruiziana"", ""Lecidea carollii"", ""Melaspilea ochrothalmia"" and ""Pannaria rubiginosa"". The ground flora consists of a base rich plant community with ramsons (""Allium ursinum""), lords and ladies (""Arum maculatum"") and meadowsweet (""Filipendula ulmaria"") in the wetter areas. Otherwise the ground flora is heath-like with ling (""Calluna vulgaris"") and bilberry (""Vaccinium myrtillus"") as the dominate species, and cow wheat (""Melampyrum pratense"") and hay-scented buckler-fern (""Dryopteris aemula"") also occurring. Management by the National Trust includes the removal of invasive sycamore (""Acer pseudoplatanus"") and maintenance of the coastal footpath from where the wood can"
"Pam's Delight Pam's Delight is an English cultivar of domesticated apple. It is a dessert apple, medium-sized with a red flush. Sweet in flavour with a crisp and juicy flesh. Harvests mid-October and available in England in October through November. Alfred Hull, a retired clerk planted some apple pips in pots which he placed on his bathroom windowsill. He planted the most vigorous in his garden. His daughter, Pam, teased her father by telling him that he should dig the tree up as it did not look as if it was capable of producing fruit. Pam developed Hodgkin's Disease, and"
"that year it was included in the National Register. Pam's Delight Pam's Delight is an English cultivar of domesticated apple. It is a dessert apple, medium-sized with a red flush. Sweet in flavour with a crisp and juicy flesh. Harvests mid-October and available in England in October through November. Alfred Hull, a retired clerk planted some apple pips in pots which he placed on his bathroom windowsill. He planted the most vigorous in his garden. His daughter, Pam, teased her father by telling him that he should dig the tree up as it did not look as if it was"
"strawberries in the streets. The ballad, is a satire that recounts the tale of a country person visiting London to seek legal remedies after having been defrauded. However, he finds that he cannot afford justice, and is soon relieved of any money he has through his dealings with street sellers, retailers, tavern-keepers and others. A ""lyckpeny"" (or ""lickpenny"") is an archaic term for anything that soaks up money. Lydgate's ballad prompted generations of composers to write songs about the distinctive cries of street vendors. By the 18th and 19th-centuries, ballads extolling the beauty of the women selling lavender, pretty flowers"
"currently one of the most popular elms on sale in Europe owing to its colourful foliage and modest size. For the 'Golden Elm' at Great Dixter Gardens, Northiam, East Sussex, apparently miscalled 'Dampieri Aurea' by the horticulturalist Christopher Lloyd, see ""U. minor"" 'Dicksonii'. In the UK, the TROBI Champion is at Blaker's Park, Brighton, measuring 17 m high and 57 cm d.b.h. in 2009, when the leaf colour was reverting to green. The tree is named for Joseph Wrede (1831–1912), Royal Horticultural Inspector at the Royal State Nursery, Alt-Geltow, Potsdam, and curator of the Alt-Geltow Arboretum. Widely available. Ulmus ×"
"extremely diverse, with one of the world's seven floral kingdoms almost exclusively endemic to the province, namely the Cape Floral Kingdom, most of which is covered by Fynbos (from the Afrikaans meaning ""Fine Bush"" (Dutch: Fijnbosch), though precisely how it came to be referred to as such, is uncertain.). These evergreen heathlands are extremely rich in species diversity, with at least as many plant species occurring on Table Mountain as in the entire United Kingdom. It is characterised by various types of shrubs, thousands of flowering plant species and some grasses. With the exception of the Silver tree, ""Leucadendron argenteum"","
"is also found on Bird Cherry (""Prunus padus""), Almond (""Prunus amygdalus""), Peach and Nectarine (""Prunus persica""). The Mirabelle or Greengage varieties of ""Prunus domestica"" may be more resistant. The gall is widely distributed, under recorded in the United Kingdom, but found throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The gall is usually known as 'pocket plum', however alternatives are 'starved plum'; 'bladder bullace; and 'mock plum'. The gall appears on the developing fruit, rendering it inedible and resulting in an elongated, flattened, hollow, stone-less gall of any colour from light green, through grey to light orange. The surface of the gall becomes"
"their county. The aim was to spread awareness of the heritage of native species and about the need for conservation, as some of these species are endangered. For example, Somerset has adopted the Cheddar Pink (""Dianthus gratianopolitanus""), London the Rosebay Willowherb (""Chamerion angustifolium"") and Denbighshire/Sir Ddinbych in Wales the rare Limestone Woundwort (""Stachys alpina""). Wildflower A wildflower (or wild flower) is a flower that grows in the wild, meaning it was not intentionally seeded or planted. Yet ""wildflower"" meadows of a few mixed species are sold in seed packets. The term implies that the plant probably is neither a hybrid"
"Kingdom, the Koralle Group has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. The berries collected in the wild are a popular fruit in northern, central and eastern Europe, notably in Nordic countries, the Baltic states, central and northern Europe. In some areas, they can legally be picked on both public and private lands in accordance with the freedom to roam. The berries are quite tart, so they are often cooked and sweetened before eating in the form of lingonberry jam, compote, juice, smoothie or syrup. The raw fruits are also frequently simply mashed with sugar, which preserves most"
"was never definitely identified but generally known as the Armagh damson; its fruit were particularly well regarded for canning. Local types of English prune such as the Gloucestershire 'Old Pruin', are sometimes described as damson varieties. Although the majority of damson varieties are blue-black or purple in colour, there are at least two now-rare forms of ""white damson"", both having green or yellow-green skin. The National Fruit Collection has accessions of the ""White Damson (Sergeant)"" and the larger ""White Damson (Taylor)"", both of which may first have been mentioned in the 1620s. To confuse matters, the White Bullace was in"
"more exacting plant species. The moss and lichen flora of Blakeney Point differs markedly from that of lime-rich dunes on the western coasts of the UK. Non-native tree lupins have become established near the Lifeboat House, where they now grow wild. The shingle ridge attracts biting stonecrop, sea campion, yellow horned poppy, sea thrift, bird's foot trefoil and sea beet. In the damper areas, where the shingle adjoins salt marsh, rock sea lavender, matted sea lavender and scrubby sea-blite also thrive, although they are scarce in Britain away from the Norfolk coast. The saltmarsh contains European glasswort and common cord"