A beautiful tree is a joy for decades, its bark and foliage a source of textural delight, its leaves adding movement and sound, while the flowers and fruit captivate in different seasons. Come sun or rain, a tree adds greatly to a garden, its living canopy casting dappled pools of light and shade. And, whether cloaked in mists, sprinkled with frost or unfurling new foliage, both purely ornamental and fruit trees provide structure throughout the year, slender or spreading, lofty or tiny, rounded, weeping or even clipped to shape.
Over time, countless gardeners have planted trees, not only for themselves, but also for the people that follow. So, it is heartening that a government report, Building, Better Building Beautiful, recommends developers should plant a fruit tree for every new house…
