BerniceC:I'm in Hamilton, and yesterday picked our first peach. Just hope the birds leave some for us. LOL

skipinnz: You got a peach tree fruiting ? Nothing like going out and picking fresh fruit from your own trees.Anything else growing?

Foxy Lady:We're just about at the end of our season, just put in brassicas for winter and picking the last of the summer vegies, but lots of fruit still to ripen, peaches, grapes, tamarillos,feijoas and persimmons.

skipinnz: Oh i'm jealous we got about 3 ft of Snow,and it's cold out.

Foxy Lady:I only like to look at snow and then from a distance, I'm shivering just thinking about it. Thank goodness we don't get it here.

skipinnz: I wait and go crazy for my Lilac trees to bud,than we know it's Spring.

Foxy Lady:We've got a Lilac but it's pretty small. I suppose it's not old enough to have to many flowers.

skipinnz: You have to cut the flowers off and feed it.Once they open i cut them for the house.We feed ours every fall.

Foxy Lady:Is that just a general fertilizer?

skipinnz: We use compost mostly sometimes Miracle Grow.

Foxy Lady: My mam has some beautiful Lilac trees! I have some photos in a cardboard box of them. But there are lots of other photos in the cardboard box too lol! I threw loads of photos away when I was moving, I had bags and bags and I just spent a day going through them all that were not in albums and deciding if I would ever want to look at them again and if not I scrapped them. A shame but I just had too many. And I scrapped all that I though were bad photos too, either out of focus or something wrong with them.
Maybe I will look up me mam,s garden ones sometime and post them.

Mousetrap: Love to see them post the pics if ya find them.

skipinnz: Feijoas.....now that is a yummy LOLOL....actually I found a small nursery here that propogates and growns foreighn tropical fruit....I bought a Feijoa tree last year and am waiting for it to do something special LOL....cost me nearly $40 for a tree/plant about 12 inches high, but if it works here it will be a bonus :)

BerniceC:I've got mine planted as a windbreak for the orchard, so with 29 trees we get plenty of fruit. Friend has a reciepe for feijoa chutney, we supply the fruit she rewards us with chutney

skipinnz: never even heard of chutney, but do adore the jam....gosh I miss feijoa's, and banana passionfruit...would kill for a banana passionfruit......would love someone to send me some seeds but I worry about the customs lOLOL

BerniceC:Banana Passionfruit are a no-no over here noxious weed.

skipinnz: really....OMG they are the best tasting I actually did a search (google) aussie and you can buy the plants....there are none in stock at the moment but have left a message to contact me when they have some....love them narnie pasho's LOLOL