{"id":13794,"date":"2023-11-04T00:32:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T23:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=13794"},"modified":"2023-11-04T00:32:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T23:32:45","slug":"looking-for-medlars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=13794","title":{"rendered":"Looking For Medlars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There was a post recently on Facebook, not local, where someone mentioned they had been looking for Medlars for 6 years. They should have come to Wenvoe where we have 6 trees all covered with fruit in 4 of our Community Orchards! Once very popular in Britain, they are now unfamiliar to most but are staging a bit of a revival.<\/p>\n

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Medlars are related to apples and are very easy to grow. All of those planted by the Wildlife Group have taken and are growing well with fruit appearing after a couple of years. They are self-pollinating with large white flowers in late Spring. The fruit are small and hard and ideally should be left until the first frosts have ‘bletted’ or softened them. They can be used to make a fragrant amber jelly, as an accompaniment to cheese or cold meats or in a sweet dessert. Look online for different recipes.<\/p>\n

Common names for the Medlar are a bit too vulgar to be quoted here but the French call it ‘cul de chien’. It appears often in literature with the suggestion it is ‘beautiful, bawdy and rotten’. Chaucer, Shakespeare and Dekker all referred to it but one of the earliest mentions is by Theophrastus, a Greek naturalist and philosopher in 300BC.<\/p>\n

As the RHS say – Steeped in history, easy to grow, and with stunning foliage, medlars are superb trees to grow, offering you a supply of vitamin-rich fruit to see you through the winter months.<\/p>\n

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