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John Hancox on fruit growing

It’s autumn and one of the joys of this season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is, well, fruit – the apples, pears and plums that thrive so well in Scotland.

Of course Keats was thinking of English orchards in his poem – To Autumn – but over the past few years there has been a resurgence in Scottish fruit growing.