Add a dash of the exotic to your snacks by whipping up a vibrant tropical dragon fruit salsa. Simply mix diced dragon fruit ...

Top with whatever delicious fruits you have to hand. Always check exotic fruit carefully before buying: look out for softened patches that can develop into a bruise with ripening. Where possible ...

and a variety of other exotic fruits and vegetables that used to be solely imported. This time, however, the locally grown varieties sit side by side with their imported counterparts, competing ...

While earlier, exotic vegetables like baby rucola, wild arugula, butternut squash, malabar spinach, chia, kale and baby kale needed to be imported, things are better with local farms growing the same.

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) predicts that wetter winters and warmer, drier summers with greater variability in rainfall will produce conditions favourable to some more exotic plants.