| Re: medlar tree
Hello,
This tree seems to be a rare one in gardens. I wonder if it is because it was a tree popular in the past and now not thought about so much, or maybe it was never really popular. I am a gardener by trade, and a young one at that. I can certainly say these unique trees are not dying out or fading away as I occasionally come across one in a garden.
In fact I have just taken on a new garden in London and the lady has a medlar growing right over from next door. She told me how she made jam or jelly with it but it did not taste very nice. Maybe she made it wrong. How should it taste? does it resemble any other fruit flavour?
I have nice memories of this tree when I was a very young lad of 17 and my brother teaching me about pruning while he was standing in the canopy of a medlar. I remember clearing the bruswood up and thinking what weird fruit and interesting bark with the characteristic vertical grooves in it. |