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aka Avocado (Group B)
A popular Avocado with fruit that ripens summer-autumn. It is a beautiful evergreen tree that loves a warm sheltered position with excellent drainage. Delicious nutty flavour. Protect from frost when young. Most cold hardy variety, down to -5c. Group B Evergreen.
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Avocado Bacon ZU
Current Stock Height: 60/80 cm ?
Container: pb10 ?
$94.99
aka Avocado (Group B)
This will be a popular Avocado due to heavy flowering on a beautiful compact evergreen tree. Medium sized, smooth black skinned fruit with yellow creamy flesh. Harvest Jul to Dec. Prefers a warm sheltered position with excellent drainage. Protect from frost when young. Group B Evergreen.
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Avocado Cleopatra TM
Current Stock Height: 55/70 cm ?
Container: pb5 ?
$89.99
aka Avocado (Group B)
Pear shaped fruit, small to medium in size with slightly rough, thin green skin. The flesh is of a buttery texture with excellent flavour. The tree has a vigorous spreading habit that shows alternate bearing characteristics. Plant in warm sunny position with excellent drainage. Group B Evergreen.
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Avocado Fuerte ZU
Current Stock Height: 60/80 cm ?
Container: pb10 ?
$94.99
aka Avocado (Group A)
A popular Avocado with fruit that ripens summer-autumn. It is a beautiful evergreen tree that loves a warm sheltered position with excellent drainage. The fruit is rich in mono-unsaturated oils, proteins and vitamins. Delicious nutty flavour. Protect from frost when young. Group A Evergreen.
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Avocado Hass
Current Stock Height: 60//80 cm ?
Container: pb10 ?
$94.99
aka Banana
Beautiful green foliage and is highly disease resistant. Flowers in autumn and harvest in spring. Tight bunches of delicious lady finger bananas, short and fat and very sweet. Easy to grow but frost tender depending on your location. Fast growing.
Banana Misi Luki
Current Stock Height: 15/20 cm ?
Container: 3.3l ?
$32.99
Northern Highbush. Likes rich acid soil that doesn't completely dry out in summer. Self-fertile but will set fruit better with a companion - 'Dixi' or 'Blue Crop'. deciduous.
Northern Highbush Blueberries are suitable for cooler climates
Blueberry Reka NH
Current Stock Height: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 1.9l ?
$29.99
aka Pineapple Guava
Vigorous growing variety which ripens in autumn around April-May. Rough skinned fruit which are large, aromatic and very sweet. Partially self-fertile but cross pollination is essential for large fruit so plant with a companion for best results. Evergreen.
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Feijoa Waingaro
Current Stock Height: 60/80 cm ?
Container: 3.3l ?
$49.99
aka Inga Bean
Something different. More suitable for warmer climates but may tolerate light frosts. Can be an attractive tree with rich dark green and bronze foliage. Pods up to 1m long contain sweet, juicy, white pulp with a soft candy-floss-like flesh that tastes of vanilla ice-cream. Self-fertile.
Tree will start producing pods in 3 years.
Suitable for warmer areas including Auckland/Northland
Ice Cream Bean
Current Stock Height: 20/40 cm ?
Container: 3l ?
$29.99
aka Lemon Meyer Standard
Citrus. NZ's most popular lemon and deservedly so. Very juicy and a really good cropper. Once established the tree will seldom be without a lemon. More tolerant of cold than many other lemons. Can you feel and Gin and Tonic coming on? Happiest in a sunny well drained position.
To keep your Lemon Standard looking good feed and water regularly. Trim new shoots below the main branches. Remember always cut off ripe fruit rather than pulling.
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Lemon Meyer Std 90cm
Current Stock Height: STD-90/HGT-120 cm ?
Container: 8.5l ?
$169.99
aka Finger Lime
Citrus. Australian Finger limes. Known as the caviar of citrus with deliciously aromatic, smooth pebbled skin, with a crisp lemon lime flavour combination. Needs a sheltered frost free site to crop really well. Can be grown in a container. Evergreen
This is a versatile fruit for the kitchen whether used for marmalade, flavouring spice, eaten fresh or used to garnish other foods. Trifoloate root stock / fruit in approx 3 - 4 years
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Lime Australasica
Current Stock Height: 20/30 cm ?
Container: 2 ?
$34.99
Lime Australasica
Current Stock Height: 15/20 cm ?
Container: 1.9l ?
$39.99
aka Limequat
Citrus. Not only is this a great decorative plant the fruit which are produced in good quantities can be used for culinary purposes. Glossy green foliage, fragrant white blossom and small yellow fruit with edible skin that are a cross between a Lime and a Kumquat. Evergreen.
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Limequat Eustis
Current Stock Height: 60/80 cm ?
Container: 3.5l ?
$49.99
A good choice for the home garden as the nuts drop when they are ripe, making harvesting the yummy nuts easier. With a high oil content they are an early season variety but does better with another variety to pollinate. With pink flowers Spring and Summer the nuts are ready Autumn through Winter. Evergreen.
Stake young plants to help root development in well drained, fertile, sheltered position.
Macadamia GT207
Expected Stock Height: 40/50 cm ?
Currently sold out. Add to your waitlist to be advised when next in stock.
aka Chilean Guava Syn Ugni Molinae
AKA as Chilean Guava or NZ Cranberry. A reliable little shrub with tight small leaves in an attractive bronze green shade. Little white flowers in spring are followed by fragrant edible berries. Easy to grow, clips well so can be used for topiary or hedging. Evergreen.
Myrtus Ugni
Current Stock Height: 5/10 cm ?
Container: 0.5l ?
$6.99
aka Guava
A delicious fruiting shrub that hails from Brazil. That tells you it will like a nice warm sheltered spot in the garden. White flowers in spring followed by sweet and tangy red fruit that ripen from about April. Glossy green foliage. Likes good drainage and protection from harsh frost. Evergreen.
Your Guava will need frost protection when young but will eventually harden to light frosts. The fruit are ready when they are fully coloured and slightly soft to the touch. Do not prune in spring as you will cut off the fruiting flowers that appear on the current seasons branches (wood).
Psidium Guava Red Cherry
Current Stock Height: 10/20 cm ?
Container: 3l ?
$24.99
Produces light red juicy berries with excellent raspberry flavour. A dwarf raspberry that is self fertile, round compact habit that is thornless and ideal for containers on the deck or patio. When ripe eat straight from the bush or throw in the kids lunchboxes or baking.
Raspberry Mini Me
Current Stock Height: 15/20 cm ?
Container: 1.9l ?
$32.99
aka Rhubarb
A vigorous Heritage Rhubarb with healthy, strong upright growth. The stems are broad with quite a bit of green shading on the red stalks. Good flavour and produces well. Plant in humus rich soil that does not completely dry out in summer and feed regularly with organic matter. Perennial.
Wairere Top Tip. Try cooking Rhubarb with 1 sliced apple - it balances out the acid flavour nicely.
Rhubarb Victoria
Current Stock Height: 5/10 cm ?
Container: tube ?
$6.99
Stock of this item is very low.
aka Tree Tomato
Sumptuous large golden fruit that are lovely and sweet (not as tart as the red ones) Small Harvest any time from April to September, dependant on regular picking and when you prune. Prefers well drained, sheltered site in full sun. Semi-evergreen.
Your Tamarillo will appreciate a nice layer of mulch around the drip line - take care not to place against the trunk. Tamarillo's are not particularly long-lived so probably best to replace your tree every 3-4 years.
Tamarillo Bold Gold
Current Stock Height: 20/30 cm ?
Container: 1.9l ?
$16.99
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