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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 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 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 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: 10/15 cm ?
Container: 2.5l ?
$24.99
This plant will soon be in stock and can be pre-purchased now.
Myrtus Ugni
Current Stock Height: 5/10 cm ?
Container: 0.5l ?
$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.
Wairere Nursery
826 Gordonton Road, R D 1, Hamilton 3281 Ph: (07) 824 3430 Email: