And, for eye-catching plants to cover a garden wall, Sarah Raven suggests Chaenomeles x superba 'Crimson and Gold' – a Japanese quince. She says it's 'one of the loveliest wall shrubs to cheer us all ...
This aphid (Eriosoma lanigerum) arrived in Britain in the 18th century and is now very common. Woolly aphids feed on apples and ornamentals that are closely related, such as crab apples, chaenomeles, ...