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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
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 Posted - 21/02/2009 : 17:57:42
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| Thats amasing that you have all thoese growing wild,i do like those loquats |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 22/02/2009 : 05:25:56
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I love loquats, we had them growing when I was a kid... ate them straight off the tree. Had cherry guavas then too but I wasn't as keen on them. We have the yellow guava coming up here but it is a pest... it's on the weed list as a garden escapee. It is a nice shaped tree but seedlings come up everywhere even quite a distance from the tree. We don't like the fruit but the fruit bats go wild over them as do the rainbow lories.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 22/02/2009 : 06:24:01
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My 4 fig trees (one is a baby planted only last winter) are all full of fruit. Black ones with pink flesh and green ones with yellow flesh. Might make jam but grilling a lot with brown sugar on them. Might make some pies also and I am sharing much of them. Lots and lots of fruit this year. Trouble is when there is a glut you get sick of the taste ... maybe I will try poaching them and then freezing.
"The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." |
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 22/02/2009 : 10:20:47
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Fresh figs are so yum
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 22/02/2009 : 14:30:15
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Just went up for today's pick and was beaten by Sammie my puppy to the low growing ones (I bet she has a tummy ache tonight) and the birds to the top ones - but there's still a lot on the trees not ripe yet and several bowls full on the sink from yesterday.
"The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." |
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paradisi
dirt-poker
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Posted - 23/02/2009 : 08:34:29
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Originally posted by Mary-Anne
Humm terrible to have so many garden escapes up your way Tony
Then again maybe we can blame the birds.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts
all there before I was Mary-Anne
in fact I've been reverse gardening - LOL - - my monsteria and loquat come from wild plants
The universe is my eyes and ears. All else is hearsay.
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 23/02/2009 : 13:46:44
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| Loquat are quite a remarkable tree,they can from the tropics to climates much colder than mine |
Edited by - medburygardens on 23/02/2009 13:47:37 |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 23/02/2009 : 14:12:05
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Of course Tony I remember you were a newcomer to Qld, I blame the birds for everything here I am amazed at the amount of strange seeds I see on the driveway.
That is good that your trees are coming from the wild..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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paradisi
dirt-poker
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Posted - 24/02/2009 : 06:32:12
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LOL newcomer to queensland - - only been living here since 03, been visiting since 83, had parents here since before then
I'll be a newcomer wherever I live - - went back to the town I was born and was called a newcomer because of the accent (town is in england, accent is very australian)
The universe is my eyes and ears. All else is hearsay.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 24/02/2009 : 08:51:15
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I thought you had been here longer than that. 
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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feral fruit trees