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winter fruit for Auckland garden
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Posted by kiwiblossom Japan (My Page) on Mon, Jul 4, 05 at 1:11
| I'm thinking of planting one or two minimum-care fruit trees that will ripen (or still be on the tree) in August. The garden I have in mind gets minimum frost, is small, and has some sizeable trees in the neighbor' garden, so sun is adequate but not amazingly good.
So what do you recommend? Good mandarins for Auckland? August too early for oranges - any smaller orange cultivars you can recommend? Late-cropping tamarillos or feijoas???
I know I want to plant a lemon - I was thinking of a Meyer, as the others are a bit too early, but what is Yen Ben like? I'm not familiar with it.
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RE: winter fruit for Auckland garden
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| I'm further south than Auckland and there are clearly citrus still on the trees here - grapefruit, lemons, mandarins and hybrids. You might find the following useful for mulling over edible fruit trees/shrubs: www.edible.co.nz. When I asked them about goji berries - they replied! And promptly. (They're based near Tauranga.) Is it damp enough at your present garden for a few Hostas and Saxifraga?? |
RE: winter fruit for Auckland garden
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| Thanks! Hostas, yes, I think I planted some. I thought citrus should still be OK in August, but couldn't remember exactly. Now I can start planning... |
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