A wonderful Gift to the children of Halesworth!

Jane Stewart of East Gate Preserves presenting to Gillian Coulson Leader Halesworth in Bloom Children's Gardening Club a wonderful young healthy medlar Tree.

The MEDLAR TREE  Mespilus germanica  has been cultivated at least since the Romans but probably for around 3000 years  Its a small slightly crooked growing tree with a divine flower loved by bees but with a strange looking fruit likened to a cat's bottom and smelling like rancid wine?
​Why would such a strange fruit be of interest to children?
Jane gave us lots of reasons not least learning about grafting, planting trees, watching them shoot, pruning. drawing the flowers and trying out jelly making to have with chicken of pork or more exotics like the wild boars of suffolk or game birds.. Jane's passion for Medlars has led her into a highly successful business venture and if you can make it selling medlar jelly and cheeses then you can make it with anything!