PETER Seabrook was a legend across the horticultural world. Not only was he Sun Gardening Editor for more than 30 years - and a Gardeners' World presenter - he championed growers all over the UK. 2 Peter Seabrook died in January 2022, aged 86 Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd 2 Friend Nick Dunn who grew Peter's Apple and bought it to market Credit: Supplied Now, to honour his legacy, a new apple - called Peter’s Gold - has been propagated by his industry pals.
And astonishingly, it can be traced back to Peter’s own Essex garden, after he handed over what he thought was a ‘decent’ apple he’d found to friend Nick Dunn from tree nursery Frank P Matthews a decade ago. Nick told me: “He was a very special man. He always valued commercial horticulturalists and was a wonderful ambassador and extraordinarily generous with his time.
“About ten years ago Peter phoned me up and said he’d raised his own apple in the garden from a pip from an apple he’d found on the roadside! “So he sent me samples of it and there were a lot of good criteria for introducing it to the public. “It was disease resistant, a good cropper every year, and the lemony flavour was excellent. “It keeps a long time - which is very unusual for a domestically grown apple.
It picks late in early to mid October, and you can keep it and store it quite easily up until Christmas or even March in a fridge and it’s very crisp. “So before he died we agreed we were going to bring it to market. “We .