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Friday 7th September, 2018
Hi
Spicey Pears, Sour Lemons and Cracking Nuts, sounds like a great time!
If your nightly G&T isn't keeping up with your lemon production then you need to consider making this lemon Curd cake... It's just delicious... from a Chelsea sugar recipe. Anthony's sister Yvonne made it the other day and, OMG, it is just my kind of dessert especially with whipped cream. Now I haven't made it yet but sure am going to give it a go as it looks pretty easy to do which is my favourite kind of thing to make. I guess once you have the base sorted you could actually innovate and add all kinds of fillings. Blueberries spring to mind, sweetened and gently cooked to a conserve consistency, or imagine stewed rhubarb thickened, I'll leave other choices to your imagination!
My understanding of lemons is that our faithful Meyer is a hybrid fruit between a lemon and some sort of Mandarin. Hence Meyer is sweeter than, what I call, the true lemons which are those others like Villa Franca, Lisbon and Genoa. Meyers also tend to carry their fruit for a much longer period whereas true lemon types tend to crop at their time and this is why lemons get preserved to be able to have that flavour at other times of the year. Meyers have great flavour but I just adore that lemon fragrance of the true lemons.
My first attempt will be with lemons and I am going to use Yen Bens from the garden. Yen Ben is a type of Lisbon and you just need to scrape the skin to smell that delicious lemon fragrance. Just for the record there are a couple of Meyers there too. I always suggest that everyone needs one of each type in their home orchard so then you almost have lemons all year.
Grow some Nuts of the Cracking kind
Its not often that we have Walnuts available for sale as we usually just cant get the numbers that we would like but this year we have. They must be up there on the more difficult to graft status as I guess this is why they are usually in short supply. We only stock grafted or named clones as seedlings will produce nuts of unknown quality and of course take much longer to produce our prized nuts. Grafted plants in my experience are capable of fruit immediately but it will take 3 to 5 years for the tree to grow to a size that will start to produce enough to call a harvest.
We even have a few Wilson's Wonder still available and plenty of Meyric and Rex so get in and get yours planted. Our friends have a very magnificent walnut on their section (must be 90 to 100) and its such a handsome shade tree and many a party and event has been held underneath its leaves. Probably could tell a story or two if it could speak!!!!!
If you are hankering for a shade tree then consider a walnut because you will get nuts too!!!
Meyric and Rex are New Zealand clones, that as I understand it, are rated as good clones by the NZ tree crops group.
There are Clematis, then there are - CLEMATIS !!!
I know that Angela has a selection of the Montana clematis arriving here next week and these are the hardy ones that are quite vigorous and look absolutely stunning in full flower. The Montanas have smaller flowers and range from white through to pink and deeper and are usually pretty easy to grow. Freda, Jenny, Mayleen, Rubens, Snowflake and Tetrarose are the ones that you need to check out.
But.. if you're after the show stopping hybrid cultivars then you need to head to Cathie's Online Only page and order these fancy hybrids and we will get them in just for you. We may get a handful more for the shop but will be guided by what you the clients indicate. These ones are a tad more tricky than Montanas but take a packet of the Bio fungicide to prevent wilt fungus and you should be away laughing.... These beauties are just fab grown through your favourite rose or take a leaf out of the English books and let them climb their way up a fancy obelisk or bamboo tripod. Different types have different pruning requirements depending on what wood they flower on so check out the info about this on the How To page.
CLEMATIS
This week is about Tree Focus
There's more to pears than pears and I'm the first that just loves a fat juicy pear, fresh from the tree of course, and we have all your favourites still waiting for you to plant... you can even get two or three varieties on the one plant if you are short of space, we call them doubles and triples. Train pears like you would apples as a vase shape or even espalier them along that blank garage wall or fill a spot on the fence line. Packhams Triumph was the variety that Mum always used to bottle but there are so many other good varieties out there Beurre Bosc, William Bon Chretian (WBC), Taylors Gold, Doyenne du Comice (DDC) to name a few.
Then there are the ornamental pears and I was really wanting to share about Pyrus Calleryana Autumn Leaves because when I was out there reblocking the trees with Guillermo I spied that we had the most amazing batch of these.
I have one in the garden too and it has the most delight, graceful, weeping form. Of course typical small white blossom flowers in the spring followed by a cascade of grey green leaves.... then you get the scarlet Autumn colour to boot. If you have a spot and want a weeping tree then this really is awesome. You can crown lift these high enough to be a grand shade tree. The plants that we have available are grafted high at 1.7 metres and have really well developed heads which would be a tad difficult to package for mail order so will need to be collected.
Pyrus Callerayana Candelabra are one of the latest to be had in the scheme of ornamental pears and as its name suggests is of a beautiful upright form like a candelabra... we have these around our drive entrance and they have just been stunning in full flower and are now about to pop with spring foliage of that pretty lime green shade. Anthony from Garden Graphix shared with me a pic of these trees in full flower the other week and I found a close up that I had of them in flower... check them out on facebook.
Sorbus aurea lutecens or Silver Whitebeam. I was impressed with these when spying them out in the trees as well this week ...A beautiful deciduous tree with the most amazing silver leaves that emerge in spring... unlike any other tree that you will see... the leaves are spectacular... I have to find a home in my garden for one of these as I just love that foliage.
Just wanted to add here on this blurb that we have good numbers of a cherry that will cope with a warmer climate.
Cherries - Lapins -Sweet Cherry. This heritage variety of Cherry is one of the largest and juciest with firm dark red fruit that are sweet and delicious. Good resistance to skin splitting and a reliable producer. Fruits in warmer areas of New Zealand, ripening Mid-late season (January). Self fertile.
Compact stella is another more compact form according to one of our suppliers that will also fruit in most areas of NZ. Good dark red fruit... I do have this philosophy in gardening and Horticulture but nothing ventured nothing gained and all the reading I have done says that these are two great varieties .
A deal to be had
Corylopsis Spicata -I have a nice grade of these beautiful spring flowering shrubs... I just love the limey yellow hop like flowers and once flowered they make for a great evergreen shrub of around 2.5 metres... Just great to fill a gap.. The plants that I have here are bushy and approx 1.2 metres high and in flower but I need them to move... I Can offer them at half price so check them out !!!
Cathie has been busy indenting stock for this spring, we have to do this these days to be able to grab the latest and greatest, so to that end she has indented the latest new Fairy Wing Lavender collection including Radiance, Spellbound and Whimsical. if you want to be on the list for theses new lavenders then pre-order now so you don't miss out as these will be very limited stock. Fairy wings in the garden, who wouldn't want these. They have been bred to be compact with flowers sitting just above the foliage, so they will be great as container or border plants with a long flowering season.
I just don't get where the weeks go....Here is hoping that you have fed all you roses and orchard trees not to mention all those hedges and other plants that you want to give a quick sugar fix to... Its not to late to do so... Lawns can be fed as well but choose a rainy day to apply so that the fert washes straight in otherwise it can burn your lawn.
I could resist taking a pic of the first rose to appear in the nursery... we always get a few randoms before the main flush which is still some weeks away but the promise of all the roses to flower will have Virginia just frothing at all that beauty. While I was spraying those said roses I spied a couple of the Guinea fowl ungainly flying up to roost ..5.30 pm must be nearly their bed time ... They weren't that fussed that I was trying to get pics of them, and were quite rowdy about telling me so, but what a cool bedroom I thought and grabbed my pic anyways.
Whatever is on the drawing board for you this weekend, whether it be gardening, hanging with friends, doing family stuff, have a fun filled fabulous couple of days.
Have a fabulous weekend.
Lloyd, Harry and the Wairere Team
Make it a Wairere weekend where even GNOMES know that gardening's not a drag.
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