Monty Don explains how he planted four crab apple trees in his paradise garden ... I also grow ‘Golden Hornet’, a fairly upright tree smothered in golden bobbles and with pink blossom in spring.

At the start of the year, crab apple tree boughs are heavy with frothy, ... 'John Downie' with white flowers and a heavy crop of bright orange flushed red fruits; and 'Golden Hornet', ...

A famous crab apple feature is at Highgrove, where a circle of standard 'Golden Hornet’ with linked branches was planted.This creates – in the spring – “a circle of blossom and in the ...