Portmeirion Apple Harvest

Apple Harvest

Portmeirion Apple Harvest Collection is a small stand alone range of Tableware, Serving Pieces and Cookware. Including the famous Pomona leaf border, the range is ideal as a mouth watering addition to the Pomona Range

Designed on Portmeirion's classic Romantic shape, Apple Harvest is drawn to the antique style illustration of the fresh green English apple, budding leaf and pretty pink blossom, complemented by a new signature green leaf border. Apple Harvest is elegant and fresh, easily adapting from formal to casual dining. Whether a tempting pork roast on a Sunday or a sweet Apple Charlotte on a summer's evening, it will also adapt to every season, and features on a range of items that will fit effortlessly into any home. Apple Harvest is both a practical and compact collection that will suit all.

The company have chosen the Lane's Prince Albert Apple as their motif for the collection.
The Apple, thought to have originated in Berkhampstead, Herts, raised by Mr Thomas Squire, as a cross between Russet Nonpareil and Dumelow's Seedling and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who reputedly visited Berkhampstead on the very day that Mr Squire planted his seedling in his garden. He initially named the apple tree Victoria and Albert. However it was renamed some time later by Mr John Lane as Lane's Prince Albert, when he grew it commercially. The apples are large in size, round and conical in shape. The skin is bright green ripening to yellow, and flushed with an earthy red, and displays broken red stripes. The flesh is white with a hint of green, crisp and juicy. The flavour is acidic, and cooks well, staying rather intact.