Rhys O'Neill's son was able to pick a peach from the tree his father bought for his mum on their first date "The first time I visited my girlfriend at college I bought a peach tree from a local ...

The reason, he thinks, is because peaches need lower temperatures. Around him, tiny peach trees the size of pencils stand above the browning grass underneath their parent tree. Brown harvested ...

Then a high-school biology teacher with a background in forestry, he joined an expedition of scientists to periodically ... but while he’d been busy wrestling with those temperamental raspberries, a ...