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| CARDOMOM -False cardomom (Alpinia nutans) PB3 50cm
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| Also known as poor man's cardomom, this plant has highly aromatic leaves that smell just like the cardomom spice, and can be used instead. Like ginger, it will form large clumps up to 2 metres high, and is an excellent addition if you wish to create that tropical ambience in your garden.It gives off a wonderful spicy aroma if you brush the leaves. An easy care plant for a pot or in the conservatory. |
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| CAROB (Ceratonia siliqua) PB 10 60cm
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| This is a very useful and handsome tree that will grow to about 10m. It is quite hardy, but will not tolerate extreme frost. The leaves are round and bronze, and the tree bears long sweet pods that can be eaten raw, or dried and ground to provide carob powder, which is used as a chocolate substitute. Make sure you take the [very hard] seeds out first! it will grow in most soils and can withstand severe drought once established. The pods also make excellent high-calorie stock fodder. Occasionally the trees are hermaphrodite, but usually you will need both male and female for pollination. |
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| CASANA (Cyphomandra Cajanumensis) PB5 60cm
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| Lots of sweet passionfruit-like fruit, ripe May-September. The tree looks similar to tamarillo with the large soft leaves and requires similar growing conditions. They grow well when planted near the drip lines of larger trees with well established root systems that keep the water pumping up. This keeps the roots of the casana from becoming waterlogged, bananas do that as well. |
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| CASIMIROA (Casimiroa edulis, White Sapote) PB10 80cm
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| A native of the Mexican Highlands. Wonderful fruit the size of an apple with a thin green skin. The pulp is delicious, creamy and smooth, the flavour is sweet and rich. I don't know why this isn't as well known as the cherimoya, it is easily as delicious. Fruit ripens in May/June. Generally fruit is mature if it comes easily from the tree with a gentle twist, changes to a lighter colour and is slightly soft to touch. Handle gently as they bruise easily. Store in a cool spot and eat within a few days of ripening (hard to resist anyway!). The trees are prolific fruiters, hardy to some frost, long lived, large and spreading in habit. Best for being pruned. You need two varieties for pollination. |
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| CASIMIROA - LNP PB10 80cm
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| A good choice for the home gardener, this has a semi-weeping habit and fine-flavoured fruit. Heavy cropper. |
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| CASIMIROA - Pike PB10 60cm
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| Small (2 -3m), well balanced tree with weeping habit. Excellent for small sections. Dark green skin, white flesh. Ripens late April-May. Skin turns a lighter shade of green to indicate ripeness. |
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| CHERIMOYA (Annona cherimola, Custard Apple) PB10 80cm
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| Native to the Andean Valleys of Peru & Ecuador. Large aromatic fruit weighing up to 1 kg or more with white creamy flesh and a wonderful flavour. Pick when skin changes colour to a lighter green and is still quite firm. Handle carefully to prevent bruising. Eat in a few days when soft to touch - it is delicious. Eat fresh or you can make a firm creamy sauce mixing the flesh with mashed bananas and cream. This is a great filling for layer cakes or base for trifles, add to fruit salads, milkshakes, yoghurt or chill and serve wedges - very moreish. First time tasters of this fruit usually rave about it. Plant in free draining soil and protect from wind and frost. Mulch well to keep moist all year round. Cherimoyas are self fertile, but will bear even better if hand pollinated. Once established they will tolerate an occasional mild frost. |
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| CHERIMOYA Perla PB10 80cm
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| Perla –Just as its name says, this is a little pearler. Very white, very sweet flesh. Few seeds. Matures July-August. |
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| CHERIMOYA Wooky PB10 80cm
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| A new variety developed in Northland, this has very large white-fleshed fruit and fruits over a long season. The trees are strong and vigorous. |
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| CHERIMOYA Burton’s Favourite PB10 90cm
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| Good sized sweet juicy fruit. Heavy cropper, vigorous tree. Matures Aug-Oct. |
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| CHERIMOYA Spanish PB10 80cm
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| Heavy cropper, sweet fruit. Matures Jul-Aug. |
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| CHERIMOYA White PB10 80cm
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| Very heavy cropper of large fruit. Juicy flesh with a hint of pineapple flavour. Matures Jul-Sept. |
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| CHILEAN GUAVA (Myrtus ugni) PB3 30cm
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| This wonderful shrub is an aromatic evergreen bush that grows to about 1.5m. It can be grown as a border plant or hedge, and should be planted where you can appreciate the aroma. In summer it is covered in fluffy white flowers followed by pea-sized berries which are tangy little flavour bombs. Best eaten alone to really appreciate the flavour, or made into a unique jam. Will grow in shade and tolerate frost. Keep moist and shelter from wind. Prune hard for first two years. |
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| CHOCOLATE GARDENIA (Atractocarpus Fitzalani) PB5 20cm
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| Also known as yellow mangosteen, this Australian native has small, highly scented flowers followed by medium-sized sweet orange fruit, that I am told tastes like Nutella. It comes from the more tropical north, but will grow in a warm sheltered situation here. If the conditions are not warm enough, it won't fruit but will still produce flowers. Not frost tolerant. |
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| CITRUS PB5
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| We have a number of unusual varieties of citrus, as well as some of the old favourites.
Citrus should be planted in a sunny spot with free-draining soil. Fertilise with plenty of compost, blood and bone, and dolomite in spring summer and autumn. Keep watered, especially limes. |
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| CITRUS Buddha's Hand Citron - dwarf 5 lt pot 1m
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| The fruit is named for its resemblance to a many-fingered hand, and is truly weird looking. A great talking point in the garden. The tree is medium-sized and highly aromatic and the fruit can be used for candied peel. |
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| CITRUS Cipo Pineapple Orange 5 litre 90cm
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| An attractive weeping tree that produces large fruit with a slight pineapple tang ready from July till November, after most other citrus have finished fruiting. Ideal for planting along a fence or retaining wall. Grafted variety. |
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| CITRUS Kaffir Lime 5litre pot 90cm
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| This is the lime whose leaves are used in Thai cooking. Wonderfully aromatic, they will give an authentic flavour to Asian meals, or use them in place of lemon peel in casseroles and stews. Grafted trees.
These are grafted stock, so will be better able to withstand the NZ climate, but all the same they will need a warm environment.
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| CITRUS Kaipara Lemon PB5 50cm
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| This heirloom variety [also known as Maori lemon] has juicy, knobbly lemons that can be eaten skin and all. They are cutting - grown plants and will bear fruit after 2 - 3 years. |
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| CITRUS Meyer Lemon PB8 60cm
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| These are cutting grown plants of this popular lemon which means they will be a little smaller and bushier in habit than grafted plants, but will still produce masses of fruit. They are suitable for either growing in a pot indoors or planting out in the orchard. Probably the most popular lemon variety, the meyer produces loads of sweet juicy lemons almost all year round. |
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