Tropical paradise in Wales

On a whim we bought an apricot tree online, I think it was about ten pounds including delivery. It duly arrived - think bundle of unimpressive twigs wrapped in cardboard to look like a two metre cotton bud. Frankly we didn't have high hopes of growing produce especially as the courier produced it from under what appeared to be a large boxed television and it was boomerang shaped.

Still we stuck it in what was then one of our relatively unused greenhouses and forgot about it apart from the occasional guilt fuelled watering.

It flourished and this year guess what!

 

We've harvested close to twenty ripe and flavoursome fruit. It has however now outgrown our little greenhouse and this week we relocated it to our huge planter by the front door. Not sure how well it will fruit there but we'll see, in the meantime it looks pretty.