Discover guides on growing, foraging, and cooking with berries across the UK.
Yes, cranberries can be grown in the UK. They thrive in acidic, peaty soil with steady moisture — conditions that are easy to replicate in a pot of ericaceous...
Growing guide →Most people know goji berries only as those shrivelled orange things from the health food shop — pricey, chewy, tasting faintly of sweet tomato. The fresh...
Exotic berry guide →Walk across any British moorland in late summer and there's a fair chance you'll tread on bilberries without even noticing. These tiny dark berries grow on low...
Foraging guide →The strawberry shelf at a garden centre paints a comforting but rather misleading picture: rows of near-identical plants that go on to produce rows of...
Read article →A white strawberry with red seeds that's supposed to taste of pineapple. The first time I heard the claim I assumed it had been dreamed up in a marketing...
Read article →Alpine strawberries taste intensely sweet and deeply aromatic, with notes of rose, pineapple, and something oddly close to bubblegum — the opposite of anything...
Read article →Raspberries come in gold, amber, pale yellow, deep purple and true jet black, and each colour brings a noticeably different flavour. Most British gardens only...
Read article →Pink Lemonade is a real blueberry variety whose fully ripe berries stay pink rather than turning blue. It is a rabbiteye hybrid (Vaccinium ashei) developed by...
Read article →Every autumn the hedgerows of Britain hang heavy with small, dark-purple plums that most people stroll straight past without a second glance. Wild damsons...
Foraging guide →A berry patch that hums with bees, fends off the usual pests without a single spray, and hands you heavier harvests into the bargain — that's not wishful...
Growing guide →Picture a kiwi fruit shrunk down to the size of a large grape, with smooth skin you can pop straight into your mouth, no peeling, no fuss. That little thing is...
Growing guide →The olallieberry is a blackberry hybrid bred in Oregon in the 1940s — a cross between a youngberry and a Chehalem blackberry — that produces large, jet-black...
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