Pear 'Williams'

Pear 'Williams'This compact pear tree is ideal for smaller gardens. It produces a crop of deliciously sweet and juicy pears ready to harvest from August. Youll know the pears are ripe when the skin colour changes from green to golden yellow. Williams pears are popular for their sweet flavour and can be enjoyed fresh from the tree or cooked in desserts. In spring, before the fruit begins to form, the tree is covered with small white five petalled flowers. The

petals are lavender-blue to purplish blues with a deeper coloured stripe in the middle of the petals

plant somewhere sheltered

The Eucalyptus gunnii ‘Silverana’ more commonly known as Cider Gum

a canvas of sorts against which the flowers can come to the fore

or growing up an obelisk placed at the heart of a flower bed

pure-white beauty that accentuates wherever it is grown in a garden

Alongside the flavourful fruits

fluffy petals

and salads

yielding apples with a flavour not dissimilar to ‘Cox’s OP’ – which is to say

‘Greensleeves’ boasts large

Lance shaped leaves with a stout stem help hold the blooms upright in stormy weather