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Fruit Tree Catalogue 2020
Our Mission
'A Tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees
is a 'wood wide web' of soil fungi that connects vegetation in an The vision of the Koanga Institute was born out of 30 years of collecting heritage
fruit trees, vegetables and flowers by Kay Baxter and others, in association with
intimate network that allows the sharing of an enormous amount the Koanga Institute. This nationally important collection is in turn built on the
of information and goods.' foundation of hundreds of generations of gardeners and farmers who have nurtured
Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees the biodiversity and cultural heritage upon which civilisation has developed (we
have co-evolved with our food plants).
'There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are
people on the planet. A mere teaspoonful contains many miles of M uch of Koanga Institute’s work was in response to the fact that in the last 100 years much of
the genetic biodiversity in food plants, all over the world, has disappeared as a result of the
industrialisation of our food production.
fungal filaments. All these work the soil, transform it, and make it
In the process of “saving the seeds”, all those involved have come to the wider realisation that not
so valuable for the trees.' just the ecology of our “food evolution” has been compromised by industrialisation, but many
Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees other aspects of our “human ecology” have likewise been compromised, and we can’t address the
one issue (e.g. seed saving) in isolation. Seed saving is one aspect of the broader need to address
our “human ecology”. Thus, while an immediate priority for the Institute is seed protection and
Contents conservation, it is also committed to contributing practical holistic solutions in the wider field of
sustainable living:
Our Mission 3 Medlar 23 • Protection, conservation
Solstice Tree Day 4 Nectarines 23 and development of NZ’s
Membership 5 Nuts 24 genetic and cultural heritage
food plants.
Editorial - Gail Aiken 6 Peaches 25
• Understanding the
Kay's Forest Garden 8 Peacherines 27
connections between soil
Autumn Gardening - Gail Aiken 9 Pears 28 health, plant and animal
Perennials Collection 10 Plums 29 health and human health.
Education 11 Pomegranate 30 • Research into the practical
Internships - Michele Griffiths 14 Quince 30 strategies and techniques
ReGeneration Productions 15 Cuttings 31 required for communities and
individuals to be self reliant,
Fruit Tree Catalogue 16 Hedgerow 31 with a focus on regenerative
Apples 17 Forest Garden Support Trees 32 land use, nutrient dense food
Berries 20 Getting Fungi - Ben Callander 34 production and processing,
appropriate technology and
Cherries 21 Trees in the Landscape - Gail & John Aiken 36
community development.
Feijoa 21 Life Members 38
Figs 21 Seed Collections 39
Grapes 22 Koanga Publications 42
Loquat 23 Bequests 43
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Solstice Tree Day Membership
Sunday June 21st - Online Registration ESSENTIAL.
Join us, help save New Zealand's Heritage Food Plants,
and receive new members benefits!
http://www.koanga.org.nz/gardens/product/solstice-tree-day/
Over the past 30 years Koanga Institute has We have listened to feedback from members
Koha on the day. collected and saved over 700 heritage vegetable and are pleased to announce our new
seed lines and over 300 Northern heritage fruit Membership Benefits:
tree lines and we could not have done it without • Exclusive new 'members only' newsletters,
We will be open from 11am – 4pm on Sunday June 23rd 2019 to our members! packed with top tips, practical advice and
celebrate trees and forest gardens here at Koanga and Kotare Village. Heirloom collections member-only offers.
Our nationally important collections are built • Two FREE seed packets of your choice from a
specially selected range.
11:00 Introduction to forest gardening on the foundation of hundreds of generations
• Gardening questions answered with access to
of growers who have nurtured biodiversity and
Koanga’s special knowledge.
11:30 Tour of Koanga's forest garden cultural heritage. We not only collected the plant
• Grow sought-after plants with preferential
material and the seeds, but also the stories and
access to rare seeds and plants in short supply.
12:30 Lunch of hearty broth-based soup & sourdough bread whakapapa of our food plants and the old people
There will be a minimum of 2 weeks member
who carried them to today. Growing out these
food plants makes them available to both our only access to fruit trees and to perennials
1:00 Tour of Kay and Bob’s forest garden in short supply. Members only access to
members and the general public. The beautiful
diversity that we see in our heritage collection – preservation packs.
2:00 Pruning demonstration of young trees • FREE on-line 'Growing Great Seedlings'
in the flavours, shapes and colours, is a glimpse of
the past varieties of all the vegetables. Workshop for memberships purchased or
You can pick up your trees any time between 11am – 3pm. Keeping the whole collection of these incredibly
renewed before 1st January 2021.
• Know what to plant and when to plant it, with
important New Zealand heirlooms alive and
exclusive members access to a beautiful high-
Everyone is welcome, you don’t have to be buying trees! available for the people of New Zealand is a
resolution, print ready copy of the Koanga
complicated and expensive process and we
Moon Calendar.
receive no government funding. We are one
This will also be an opportunity to stock up on seeds for spring etc. See you here, of the only organisations in New Zealand who If you agree with us that saving New Zealand’s
but don’t forget to order your trees beforehand, as numbers are very limited. grow out our seeds locally (mostly in the sunny heritage food plants is an essential part of
Hawke’s Bay), so they are adapted to NZ soils building a better, regenerative future and if you
and climates. These seeds are then selected value the wealth of experience and knowledge
for the qualities home gardeners are looking that Koanga holds and makes available through
for, like a long cropping season, great taste, it’s website, publications and courses then the
nutrient density and many other qualities that best way that you can support us is by becoming
commercial seeds are not selected for. In order a member, by encouraging other people to join,
to be able to maintain a garden crew capable of and, if you can afford it, by supporting someone
continuing to save this collection of organic, less financially secure to join.
heritage seeds and trees so you can enjoy them Join us today!
now and in the future we need to significantly
https://www.koanga.org.nz/gardens/koanga-
increase our membership base.
memberships/
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importance for the fund. The other focus is on New Booklets
Editorial February 2020 − Gail Aiken timber production, which seems to be largely
monoculture pine and presumably at least some
Kay will be publishing two new booklets soon.
One of these is a history of food plants in
of which would have been planted anyway.
Welcome to our 2020 Fruit Tree Catalogue! Koanga has been Northland and Logan was very involved in the
The gaps from my perspective are that the content of this booklet.
collecting heritage fruit trees from around Aotearoa for over 30 years focus seems to be only on taking land out
The booklet contains many historical stories
and our collection continues to grow and develop. Our enthusiasm for of agricultural production, that there are
about the settlement of Northland and it's
minimum area restrictions which mean
these wonderful old trees hasn’t diminished and we love our evolving that the scheme is not available for smaller
relationship with food plants arriving here.
connections with them in our own orchards and are always excited to The stories that Kay has been told and along
areas of land, and that other uses of trees in
with others has observed do not always align
share new trees with you through our catalogue. farmland such as shade trees, fodder blocks,
with the accepted stories about our history.
silvopasture, wood pasture and agro forestry
We are pleased to have several varieties of fruit chop and drop and to make ramial wood chip are pretty much ignored by the fund. It seems Kay’s other new booklet is Egg Production in
trees that are ‘new’ in this catalogue, some old as much as possible in the first years especially. particularly important in a pastoral nation a Regenerative Future. Here Kay looks at how
favourites and some trees that haven’t been It is the carbon going back to ground that feeds such as New Zealand that we support and we can feed chickens without industrial food
available to buy from us for a while. All of our the fungi and builds the soil, and promotes encourage the use of trees in pasture as this even in small areas and which breeds are the
trees are heritage trees that are proven to do strong tree health. This booklet teams perfectly provides multiple benefits for the stock, for most efficient converters of this food into meat
well in Aotearoa New Zealand and are suitable with her book “Design Your Own Orchard” the soil life, for carbon sequestration and for or eggs.
to be grown in an organic and regenerative to provide in-depth information to allow you the environment in general. We clearly can’t
way by home gardeners. to design to get the best out of your orchard or take all of our farm land out of production Enjoy the catalogue and may your
forest garden. so need to manage that farmland in the best orchards be fruitful!
As our Forest Gardens have developed so has
way possible and using trees on farms is an
our knowledge about the best support species Don’t forget we also have a number of fruit tree Gail
essential part of that. See the article on “Trees
to use here in New Zealand and again we have related workshops to provide in depth, hands
in the Landscape” for some of our thoughts on
some new support trees available this year. on learning and that there are many resources
broader uses for trees.
Our approach to creating healthy ecologies to to support you on our website.
support our fruit trees also continues to evolve Logan Forrest
Other tree uses
and we have heaps to share with you in this
We were saddened recently to hear of the death
catalogue and via our website about how to Although our main focus here is on fruit trees
of Logan Forrest from Pouto at the north head
support the fungal networks in our soils that and how to grow them in a regenerative way,
of the Kaipara. Many of you will recognise his
are so important to tree health. our interest in trees goes beyond this and in this
name as Logan was a great friend to Koanga
catalogue we will share with you some thoughts
Membership and gifted several important trees in our
about other trees and their importance.
collection. Kay spent a lot of time around the
Membership support remains crucial to
Tree planting is very topical at present Pouto area with Logan collecting trees and,
the work that we do and we have listened
with the Billion Trees Project under way very importantly, hearing the stories of these
to feedback from our members and have
providing support to landowners to plant very special plants including Olives, Peaches,
introduced new members benefits. Find out
trees for a variety of positive environmental Pouto Sugar Fig, and Pouto Gold Nectarine. We
more on page 5.
outcomes including helping New Zealand are grateful for Logan’s generosity in sharing
Resources and workshops meet its international climate change his stories and knowledge with us and send
commitments. While I welcome initiatives condolences to his wife, Joyce, and his family.
To help support home growers Kay has just
that assist landowners to plant trees I confess
updated her Design Your Own Forest Garden
to being disappointed at some aspects of the
booklet to include new information which
scheme. Restoring native forests is clearly an
strongly emphasises the importance of using
important goal and quite rightly is an area of Logan being interviewed under the 200 year
your legumes and mineral accumulators for
old olive tree at Pouto.
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Kay's Forest Garden Autumn Gardening - Gail Aiken
I have learned over the past 12 months that THE MOST IMPORTANT It seems like a strange time to be thinking • Dalmatian cabbage for rich, dark greens.
THING if you want healthy trees and fruit and lots of chicken food about winter veges when it’s so hot outside but
• Beetroots particularly Bulls Blood and
it’s critical to get some crops in soon if you
from your forest garden is to feed the soil fungi. want them to be ready to harvest over winter.
Cylindrical for salads, cooked and for juicing
with apples and ginger or turmeric.
We can do soil tests and add appropriate grow, as well as alders (rubra and glutinosa So while you still need to keep liquid feeding,
fertilizer but that doesn’t do the best job of are great here). Willows are coppiced annually watering and harvesting your summer crops • Sutton’s Dwarf Broad Beans – because we
feeding the fungi. Fungi feed on carbon, in winter and alders less frequently. My new you also need to sow the following: cauliflower, love broad beans in the Spring and need to
especially ramial wood, the wood from version of the Forest Garden Booklet lists our cabbage, broccoli, kale, lettuce, onions, swedes, plant in April or they struggle to produce in
deciduous trees that have branches less than favourite trees for coppicing and which canopy turnips, parsley, welsh bunching onions, the hot spring/early summer weather.
7cm diameter to the tips of those branches. layer they fit into. silverbeet, chard, orach, celery, peas, miner’s
Our list of Autumn seeds that are available
lettuce, corn salad, leeks, carrots, beetroot
Everywhere in our gardens and forest gardens If you’re thinking of planting an orchard or forest plus lots of information can be found on our
and parsnips.
where we have put ramial wood chip we have garden I would strongly recommend you come website http://www.koanga.org.nz/gardens/
enormous amounts of white soil fungi. We have and check our forest gardens out here, they are My ‘wouldn’t be without’ list is: seeds-to-sow-in-autumn/
been doing this in Koanga forest gardens and in really beginning to look and feel amazing, and we • Henry Harrington’s Chinese Cabbage
my veggie garden and forest garden for nearly have learned lots of lessons. Maybe book in for a which is just delicious raw in salad, stir fried
one year now, and the results are tangible. Guided Tour, or a workshop. or added to soups and stews.
I’m constantly looking for solutions for • Asian Mesclun Mix or Deep Purple mustard
Arohanui Kay
maximising soil health and ecological health – small leaves for salads and larger leaves as
and what I learned this year is that applying bitter greens in stir fries or stews.
ramial wood chip creates positive change in a
tangible and relatively fast way. • Cabbage January King for all things
needing cabbage including sauerkraut.
Leaving a tagasaste tree (8 years old) in the
ground after it died has been a revelation too, • Scarlet Ohno Turnips – just delicious.
watching first the fungi that came up through • Endive Indiva Scarola for salads.
Surround every tree you
the earth all along the underground roots, and plant with trees that can • As many carrots as we can grow (my
then watching them colonize the tree trunk be coppiced or pollarded
favourite is Yellow Austrian Llobericher).
and branches, all the while imagining the fungi for ramial wood chip to
grow your soil and tree
embodying the minerals from the tree then as
health via the fungi.
• Guernsey parsnips because we love parsnips
the fungi grow and die making them available roasted or in soup and because if some are
via the soil food web to the citrus and pears left for next spring to go to seed they look
around it. I love that! magnificent and are great for the bees.
So if you are planning on planting fruit trees • Aomaru koshin radishes for lactic pickles,
this winter I would recommend that you first salads and cooked.
plant the trees you will later coppice to produce
• Leeks because they are great but also in case
your ramial wood chip to feed the fungi who
we have an onion gap.
feed your trees. My favourites at this point are
basket and other smaller willow (eg Egyptian) • Dalmatian parsley for garnishing as a herb
that we are trialling and which are available but also for using more as vegetable adding
as cuttings from Koanga and are very easy to big handfuls to soups, stews or stir fries.
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Perennials Collection Education
Perennial vegetables are a great addition to New ordering system for our Here at the Koanga Institute we are learning to live simply and in a regenerative way
a garden, bringing diversity and variety but in Aotearoa. We are very aware of how important food is to eco-systems, people,
also increasing resilience in the garden. Our
perennial collection
cultures, communities and ultimately our health. The education we provide is our way
perennials collection contains all kinds of Please order items from our perennial collection
treasures many of which were important via our website. Details of all perennial plant
of actively accumulating and sharing the knowledge and skills that we are sharing.
E
elements of old food gardens that have now material can be found here: http://www.koanga. mpower yourself with the practical skills We’re Committed To:
become rare. Some perennials such as potatoes, org.nz/gardens/perennial-collection/ to turn your dreams of self-resilience into
kumara, yams, shallots and garlic are usually • Inspiring and supporting regenerative living
When we are sure of stocking levels each year your reality. We use the Permaculture design in New Zealand through education
grown as annuals, however naturally they process to design and teach solutions for all
the relevant items will be made available to • Empowering home gardeners to develop
remain in the ground and grow as perennials. aspects of our lives and environment. Our guided
order. Orders can be placed in advance once efficient gardening skills, build top-soil and
Others such as strawberries, welsh bunching tours, workshops, permaculture design courses,
the item is listed as in stock but will only be improve their health through enjoying their
onions, multiplying leeks, sea kale, rhubarb and internships and apprenticeships are all great
sent out at the time indicated. They are dealt own quality, nutrient dense produce.
asparagus are left in the ground. We also sell ways to create your lifestyle or career path in a
with by date received so earlier orders will be All food served on our courses is:
some of our perennial vegetables in the form of regenerative way.
sent out first.
seed, details here: http://www.koanga.org.nz/ • Locally sourced
gardens/product-category/perennial-seeds/ To be informed when items become available • Organic
please make use of the ‘wait list’ function on • Unrefined
It is our aim to make these plants available in
our website – you will then be sent an e-mail to • Nutrient dense
the form of starter packs. All of these will be
inform you that the item has become available • Traditional
sent to you as live plant material, not seeds, and
to order. Items will be sent out around the • Prepared following Weston A. Price principles
are sent out at only one time of year according
time indicated for that category although
to their needs.
specific timing varies from season to season.
If you have special requirements (for example
For detailed information on all available workshops please see our website.
will be away during part of the send out
period) please let us know in advance as we are Short Workshops (One or Two Days) Koanga Seed Week
not able to contact customers to check before
sending the items out. We send out email We are excited to be offering the following March 1st – 6th 2020
notification that the item is on its way along short workshops this year:
Full price $920
with planting tips so please supply an email • Traditional Food Storage
address if you can. • Powerdown / Appropriate Technology Tutors: Kay Baxter & Michele Griffiths
• Grow Your Own Mushrooms Learn everything you need to know to set up
If you have a back order query which does not
• Ecological Hunting your own family, bioregional or national seed
relate to ordering or payment please e-mail
• Salami Making bank – Your future food security!
gail@koanga.org.nz
• Urban Garden Design
• Fruit Tree Propagation This seed week will give you the skills and
Perennials section of our knowledgebase understanding to grow and save your own
• Introduction To Pruning
We make a huge range of information available seeds and to ensure that the seeds you save
to gardeners through our knowledgebase will be high quality for longevity and with the
including details on many of the perennials potential for optimal nutrition.
in our collection and how to grow them.
http://www.koanga.org.nz/knowledgebase/
gardening/
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Whether you are planning to set up a seed The purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate Gardening Masterclass Forest Garden Intensive
bank for a larger community or would like respectful, effective and efficient ways to kill
to address food security for your immediate and process animals, with simple technology, in How to garden regeneratively to grow nutrient Designing, implementing and managing
family, here you will find the skills and preparation for inclusion in your family’s diet with dense food using the bio intensive method. forest gardens.
resources required. Processes taught are very a particular focus on using the whole animal. September 20th – 25th 2020 September 27th – October 2nd 2020.
low tech and could be adapted to suit any Early Bird $828, Full price $920 Tutors: Kay Baxter, Murray Neverman
Major Butchery Topics Covered:
situation, including rural villages without
• Outlining issues of hygiene, diseases, This Koanga Education Bundle provides Saving our heritage trees is a critical part of
electricity or technology.
and regulations students with the Biointensive Gardening and what we do here at Koanga, and just as critical
A critical part of this week is the experience Growing Nutrient Dense Food workshops is learning to design ways of planting our food
you will gain at planning seed gardens or • Understanding tools to use, maintenance delivered back to back. production systems so they are regenerative,
food and seed gardens and the practical and sharpening and build healthy soil, provide healthy high
Tutor: Kay Baxter
experience you will gain by working in our • General principles of killing Brix food, and create healthy ecological
Learn why BioIntensive Gardening is the most
processing facilities. • Killing, skinning and dressing sheep and goats systems. We have established forest gardens
efficient system we know of and how using this
Workshop Outline Includes: • Killing and dressing a pig and are building a lot of experience.
system you can grow high quality food in a
• Killing, plucking and dressing poultry super efficient way whilst also growing soil. Kay will give you an understanding of what
• History of Seeds forest gardens are, how to design them to work,
• Why save seeds • Maximising use of offal Kay will give you an understanding of what
to be productive and to have the potential for
• Cutting and preparing meat nutrient dense food is, and how to test your
• Which are the best seeds for us to be saving growing abundance for you. You will learn how
food, using a refractometer, to see how
• Where do we find them Meat Processing Topics Covered: to choose and integrate plants using guilds,
nutrient dense it is. You will learn how our
understand root-stocks, calculate nutrient
• Planning gardens for seed saving • Salting • Smoking food communicates with our bodies, and how
needs and how to provide for them, and how
• How to grow high quality seeds the strength and clarity of that communication
• Bacon • Sausages to find more information, learning about more
largely determines our health today and for
• Admin systems for small scale seed saving • Salami • Pate plants, their needs, uses and place in your forest
our children and grandchildren tomorrow.
• Equipment and storage garden. You will end up with a step by step
You will then learn some key principles behind process for putting this all together.
• Cleaning and processing seed growing nutrient dense food. How to use that
You will also learn the main strategies, skills
• Packing seed understanding and information to design
and techniques needed in order to maintain
your best way to grow nutrient dense food. We
Butchery and Meat Processing a forest garden as a regenerative ecological
will teach you a range methods from brought
system for production, and for soil, plant and
fertiliser to doing it all yourself via the compost
May 24th – 29th 2020 animal health.
heap, and the biochar burner and more…
Early Bird $828, Full price $920 Kay will bring you state of the art best practice
Tutors: Taiamai Corker for both Biointensive Gardening and Growing
Nutrient Dense Food.
Taiamai is a butcher and farmer who Kay is an internationally recognized teacher
specifically loves his Wiltshire Horn Sheep, in these fields and this week is an opportunity
Large Black Pigs, his poultry and his Dexter to get the theory and hands on practice so that
cows, and loves to share his passion and skill at you will return home with enough confidence
butchering and meat processing in a way that to begin your own journey of growing nutrient
makes it totally accessible for all. dense food effectively, efficiently, using state
This is a practical workshop to learn home of the art best practice methods. You will be
butchering skills for small animals: poultry, inspired to new heights with these teachers.
goats, pigs and sheep. This is a basic course to
support you in this.
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Internships - Michele Griffiths ReGeneration Productions
If you have a passion for growing nutrient dense food and seed saving or for food
forests and propagating trees, Koanga offers several free 3 month internships that are
designed to help you on your journey.
These internships are unique as you are Forest Garden and Tree Nursery Internship
not only learning in your desired area of On this internship you will be taught by our
focus but will also have the opportunity highly skilled managers the following:
to learn the principles of a traditional, • Heritage fruit tree varieties
nutrient dense diet, learn a range of • Grafting
techniques to process and store food and • Tree health
experience this healthy way of living. • Propagation
• Seed collection
Food Production and Seed Saving Internship • Forest garden design and maintenance
• Managing the tree nursery
As part of this internship you will work • Bio-intensive practices
alongside our gardeners learning skills such as: For each internship, Koanga provides a free
• Bio-intensive practices
• How to work efficiently with low impact on
week long course with all meals provided and ReGeneration Productions is the first platform for regenerative
a weekly mentoring session with Kay Baxter
your body who has over 30 years experience in heritage education based in Aotearoa NZ. We're here to help restore the
• Propagation
• Regenerative soil development techniques
fruit trees, gardening and seed saving. health of our people, our communities and the health of our
We are a very down to earth, highly motivated
• Growing nutrient dense food team with a vast range of expertise that love planet, and to inspire and support us all to be the change we
• Garden planning and management
• Plant health
to share our knowledge and give you the best
learning possible by always going that extra mile.
wish to see in the world!
• Compost making
• Harvesting and seed cleaning techniques To facilitate that we have partnered with the Koanga Institute and in collaboration
with them we are offering Internships and producing online courses including
Internship places are very limited, find more information here: videos, resource bases, and webinars. We’ve recently released the Koanga
https://www.koanga.org.nz/internships/ or e-mail, contact@koanga.org.nz Gardening Online Masterclass and in the next year we’ll release the Forest
Gardening Masterclass and a 12 month workshop on Herbal Health & Nutrition.
As Koanga Members you get access to a 20% discount voucher which you can use
in the ReGen online store! Learn more at www.regenerationproductions.org
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Fruit Tree Catalogue 2020
Please note: All Fruit Tree orders will be taken online or via phone if you do
not have internet access. www.koanga.org.nz/gardens/ or (06) 838 6269.
T his is a very special collection of NZ heritage plant material, gifted to us by the
gardeners of this land. We believe every tree in this catalogue to be worthy of a
Apples
special place in our lives today, for one reason or another. All trees in this catalogue have Rootstock Diameter Canopy Size Preferences Description
been organically grown by hand in a way that regenerates the land they were grown in. M9/M26 2m 3 sqm Irrigation, mulch, staking, Produces a dwarf tree. Can be
Dwarf free draining soils. espaliered, cordoned or grown as a
We’ll send the planting instructions with your trees, so you can also plant them well, staked tree.
ensuring strong healthy growth and maximum nutrient dense fruit production.
MM 106 4m 13 sqm Free draining soils. Developed for free draining lighter
These trees have been grown in Open Ground situation and marked with a white dot on soils. A semi dwarfing tree, if well
pruned can be kept to 2.5m high and
the North side of the trunk, so that you too can plant these trees in the same alignment. 3m wide. An excellent choice for home
Trees grow their main roots along the earth's magnetic field and they grow far better if gardens if you have the right soil
they are planted in that same alignment as they were in the nursery. The white dots allow 793 4-8m 30 sqm Free draining soils. Large tree. Has been bred from
you to do that. Northern Spy and does well on
heavy soils.
Many of the trees offered here are from our Northern Bioregional collection. These trees Northern 4-6m 30 sqm This is the old rootstock Tree Size: It is possible to keep trees on
have naturalised in the North where the winters are warm, and they have been through Spy that does best on heavy this rootstock to 3m if you are a very
clays. It can handle heavy skilled pruner. They can grow to 6m,
a 150 year process of natural and human selection in that climate. The significance of wet soils as well. but not too difficult to keep them to 4-5.
this is that they fruit well in warm winters. Cultivars with the same name grown south
of the Bombay Hills and taken north, do not. That is the reason Kay began saving these
old trees.
One of the good things about having this collection is that you can now buy trees that
will fruit well in Northland, but we also now know they do very well when taken south
again. Martin Crawford of Forest Garden fame in England is recommending that we
should all be planting our orchards these days with fruit trees that came from 2 climate
zones north of where we are, so that they will fruit in the future in warmer winters!
Apples Apples Apples
Bert’s on M9, MM106, 793, N Spy $36 Captain Kidd on 793 $36 Early Strawberry on M9, MM106 $36
I n the stone fruit section of our catalogue you will notice we now offer more and Medium size, round apple with Bright red, streaky, white flesh, Dessert, small flattish, very sweet,
yellowish russety skin with a red large, fine excellent flavour, sweet, crisp, early apple, ripening Christmas
more cultivars as seedlings. We are doing this because we believe them to be a blush. Dessert apple with excellent juicy, medium vigour, reliable to late February. Green yellow skin
superior way to grow our genetically stable heritage varieties. flavour and old fashioned firm flesh. cropper, healthy, disease resistant. with bright red streaks when ripe. NZ
From Bert Davies collection planted Bred in NZ, from Tom & Robyn Heirloom, gifted to our collection by
Modern peaches do not grow true in the same way, and so we trial all cultivars before in 1917 in his old pear orchard, one of Morrison Kenilworth Orchards, 1989, Isa Scott from her old tree in Birkdale,
offering them to you. 2 apples in the pear orchard (the other Warkworth. it came to Isa from Redhill Papakura
was Northern Spy). (Mr. Tom Shepherd) in 1896.
The trees are stronger and more disease resistant, but grow in size to be somewhere
in between the smaller Marianna rootstock and the larger peach rootstock.
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Apples Apples Apples Apples
Freyberg on M9, MM106, 793 $36 Giant Geniton on M9, 793 $36 Golden Delicious on M9, N Spy $36 Matakana Golden Russet on M9,
Large, pale green skin which turns Green skin, similar to Granny Smith, Large apple with golden skin and MM106, 793 $36
pale honey yellow when ripe, crisp, but reddish striping when ripe, sweet/ golden flesh. Conical shape with Golden russet skin with red blush
juicy and very sweet flesh, excellent tart crunchy dessert apple from sweet, crisp, rich aromatic flavour with on sunny side, round, flattish, yellow
texture and flavour, heavy cropper. April on and great cooking, reliable great depth, far better than modern flesh, very rich aromatic flavour,
Ripe late February to late March. heavy cropper. This is an outstanding selections. Came to us from Kaiwaka. sweet, soft, excellent with cheese.
Bred by JH Kidd, Greytown, Golden apple that came to this land with the Ripe February, March but store well
Delicious/Cox’s Orange cross, in Dalmatian Gumdiggers. From Phil and taste better with keeping. Golden
collection since 1986. Evans in Kohukohu, Hokianga, 1987; Russets were very common in all of Apples
also from Cloon Eavin, Pahi; one of the old orchards. They are precocious Mayflower on M9, MM106, N Spy $36
the very best apples in the North. bearers, reliable heavy croppers and Medium-large, flat, green skin, turning yellow when ripe, gold russet on top,
are very special apples. From the yellow flesh; excellent old-fashioned full flavour, crisp, heavy reliable bearer,
Matakana area and very probably from small tree. Selected from thousands of seedlings in the Hokianga by missionaries
the original Mathew Bros nursery in Knaggs/Fairburn 1840's, named after boat he arrived in; from Jim Cox,
the area. Tangiteroria, 1980's.
Apples Apples Apples Apples Apples Apples
Hayward Wright on M9, MM106, Jonathan on M9, 793, N Spy $36 Lord Nelson on M9, N Spy $36 Red Delicious on M9, MM106, 793 $36 Red Spy on M9, MM106, 793 $36 Willie Sharp on MM106 $36
793 $36 Old fashioned dessert apple, crisp with Golden russet skin with red blush. Original cultivar, almost black skin Large, round, very red; juicy sweet, Pale yellow skin when ripe, sub-acid,
Bright red/golden russety skin, red very juicy flesh, mostly red skin with A well known, old fashioned, early when ripe, wonderful sweet flesh, better dessert apple than Northern sweet, juicy, heavy cropper, excellent
coloured flesh, excellent texture and green patches when ripe, white flesh. cooking apple. Excellent disease excellent aromatic, rich flavour. Ex Spy but similar, old-fashioned winey for both desert and cooking, with
flavour, juicy, sweet, heavy reliable Keeps very well, ripe March April. resistance, heavy cropper in the Kaitaia, 2000. flavour. From Mrs.Chadwick (along a tang modern apples just don't
dessert apple. Ripe mid January- Originally from the settlement and North, it has the classic cooking with Cemetery rose), 1991, originally have. From Bert Davies, Wellsford,
February. From George McKinney, huge orchards planted at Port Albert apple flavour and bite, ripe in from Harold Hames Valley Rd. (sport 1989, bred by Mr. Sharp - an early
Auckland, 1997; one of Hayward (on the Kaipara Harbour) by the January well before other cooking off one of his Northern Spy trees). New Zealand nurseryman and
Wright's (of kiwi fruit fame) favourite Albertlanders from Germany. apples of any quality. Gifted to the fruit breeder.
early selections. Koanga Collection by Dave Webster
of Wharehine.
18 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2020 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2020 | 19Berries Cherries Feijoa
berries berries berries cherries cherries feijoa
Currant, Black $22 Currant, Giant Red Ruby $22 Marionberry OG $22 Mt Morency on Colt Rootstock $36 Tangshe on Colt Rootstock $36 Tony Firman $22
Classic black currants high in flavour From the Henry Harrington An outstanding trailing vine which Early, self fertile cherry, producing Large, bright red fruit, amber flesh A very special feijoa gifted to Koanga
and nutrition, fruiting in Hawkes Southland collection. Henry collected is a cross between blackberries and well in mild climates. It produces with tangy flavour, self fertile, perfect Institute by Tony Firman. Selected from a
Bay Allow 1m. From the Henry most of his berries along the railway raspberries. A large shiney, glossy large crops of firm, juicy fruits with for pie making. large field of seedling feijoas grown from
Harrington Southland collection, lines travelled by the early settlers black berry with a delicious complex great flavour and pinkish red skin. White Goose and Golden Goose, which
which Henry collated from plants and gold miners. This is the largest but sweet flavour. It is a vigorous vine are outstanding cultivars in their own
growing wild along railway lines of our red currants ripening in mid sending up a few canes each year right and patented as export cultivars.
along the tracks near Ohai, an old December. which can grow 5m long. They need Out of the field of seedlings this is his
coal mining area and a trail the old trellising each year and the old canes favorite. As yet unnamed so we’re calling
goldminers used. Ripe December. cut out. it Tony Firman at this point. He chose it
because of it’s very large size, excellent
flavour like the old ones used to be, it’s
ability to crop with no irrigation (i.e. it
has strong deep roots and its keeping
qualities.These trees are grown from
cuttings, and are 50+cm high.
Figs
berries berries berries
Worcesterberry, Henry’s $22 Raspberry, Black $12 Raspberry, Lake (Red) $12
This Worcesterberry came from Non suckering well known ancient Classic red raspberries that sucker
Henry Harrington’s grandparents cultivar sent to Koanga by a member strongly like the yellow one. Best in
(de Malmanche family), who were in the South Island, 10 years ago. The a largish Food Forest situation where
early French settlers near Akaroa. It fruit is darker than Lake, and is ripe they can form a raspberry patch. From figs figs figs
is a cross between a gooseberry and a a little later and longer. The vines Louise Shaw 2006, originally from the Adriatic $22 Black $22 Hyndemans $22
black currant, and grows like a vine, grow tall but can be tipped to keep central north Island lakes area. 1.5m,
so needs espaliering against a wall, a down to1m if tied to wires in loops. ripe December and again February. Large, round, green skin, dark red very Small dark skinned, pink-fleshed fig, Small figs with a purply skin and
south wall is great. If you espalier them Must have old wood taken out each sweet pulp, huge reliable crops, not creamy texture, very sweet skin. An silky pink centre, two crops if you
berries suitable for areas with short summers. early fig, best for marginal areas that don’t prune it the first around Xmas,
like an apple you can then hang bird winter and all new vines tipped. Black Raspberry, Yellow $12
netting over the vine when the black raspberries are reputed to be the The figs were eaten fresh but also dried may experience cooler summer, ripens the next in March/April. Very good
sweet berries are ripe, the berries sit for most nutritious. Outstanding raspberry, was well in a paste form and used as sweetening March. Allow 4-8m (depends on for drying. Allow 4-8m (Depends on
weeks once ripe if covered. Excellent known all over New Zealand 100 years for all baking by many. Allow 4-8m pruning). Ex Auckland, NZ Heirloom. pruning). Ex Kaipara, Hyndmans
flavour. Ripe February will hang on ago. Average size, pale yellow fruit, (depends on pruning). Ex Kaipara, original farm, Kaiwaka.
bush if shady until late March. one of the best eating raspberries, NZ Heirloom.
with a strong Autumn crop following
a Summer crop. 1.5m, ripe December.
Ex Canterbury/ Lower Hutt,
NZ Heirloom.
20 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2020 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2020 | 21Grapes Loquat Medlar
figs grapes grapes
Pouto Sugar $22 Black Dalmatian $22 Isabella $22
Very sweet fig, hence its name. Early, Came to us from an old Dalmatian Small black grape. Dry (not really
small, pear shaped, red brown colour orchard in Kohukohu. Outstanding juicy) and sweet with a good flavour.
on one end with pale flesh. Allow 4-8m disease resistance and delicious strong A very old Northland Grape that came
loquat medlar
(depends on pruning). This fig was flavour. Very dark skin, musky flavour in with the early settlers on the boats
Koanga $8 Medlar on Hawthorn rootstock $36
used in the north as a sweetener, i.e and lots of tannin. Good as a dessert via America. This is one of the oldest
was dried/ bottled and then added to and wine grape. Ripe in late March. grapes in New Zealand. Loquats are attractive evergreen trees with large leaves. It is Mespilus germanica, known as the medlar or common
other dishes. Was given to Koanga by Ex Kohukohu, very old Dalmatian one of the few sub-tropical fruit species within the Rosaceae medlar, is a large shrub or small tree, and the name of
Logan Forrest of Pouto. orchard, NZ Heirloom. family. Our loquat is a large thick walled sweet loquat, fully the fruit of this tree. The fruit has been cultivated since
ripe early December. Loquat fruits can be eaten fresh off the Roman times, and is unusual in being available in Winter,
tree or can be cooked. and in being eaten when bletted. The fruit is picked in
Autumn and laid on shelves not touching each other and
left until the flesh turns from white to brown and is no
longer astringent. Joe Polaischer talked a lot about his
grandmother often making medlar bread in Austria. The
flowers are stunning large and white.
Nectarines
grapes grapes grapes
White Dalmatian $22 Niagra $22 Wairarapa pink $22
Came to us from an old Dalmatian Excellent choice for the organic home Small oval pink skinned grape with
orchard in Kohukohu. Very sweet, gardener. Very early white dessert outstanding flavour. Found in an nectarines nectarines nectarines
excellent flavour, slightly later than grape, sweet with a lovely mild flavour. old vineyard, when pruning grapes. Goldmine Seedling $28 Nuhaka Goldmine on Marianna & Kōkōwai on Marianna & Peach $36
Niagra. Ex Kohukohu, came from Ripens early March. Easy to grow with Owner had kept these outstanding old Medium size, mid season, white Peach $36 Red leaf, red skin, golden buttery
the same old Dalmatian orchard as reliable heavy crops. NZ Heirloom, in dessert grapes because of their quality fleshed nectarine with red over Goldmine type but larger, and more very tasty flesh, free stone, medium
Black Dalmatian. our collection since 1985. amongst modern wine grapes. green skin, dessert quality with a intense flavour. Super sweet fruit with size fruit, excellent desert nectarine.
sweet flavour. Ripe in February. excellent flavour, strong red blush and Was selected from seedlings from a
An outstanding old variety from russeting on skin with a freestone, and heritage peach that produced multiple
the Kaipara. is ripe February. nectarine variations. This one was
selected because of the amazing
dark leaf colour which makes it
very ornamental.
22 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2020 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2020 | 23Nuts Peaches
Rootstock Diameter Canopy Size Preferences Description
Marianna | Plum 3-6m 12 sqm Heavier, wet soils, Smaller than on peach rootstock.
Root Stock essential.
Peach Root Stock 5-8m 15 sqm Light, dry, boney soils. Vigorous rootstocks.
Peach Seedlings 5-8m 15 sqm Drier, bony soils, Seedling grown trees, not grafted,
exposed. Form strong, healthy trees.
nuts
Hazelnut Mixed 2 year old Seedling $16
Mixed from Butler (a classic cultivar
known as being reliable and easy to
husk) and Alexandra (a very strong
cultivar with mixed nut quality, great
for a fruiting hedge). Excellent for
hedgerows shelter and nut groves.
Require moisture to grow well.
peaches peaches peaches
Arapohue Red Leaf Seedling $28 Batley Seedling $28 Christina Seedling $28
Red skin, golden flesh and freestone Medium, honey coloured skin with White flesh, red around stone, green
nuts with red streaks around the stone. red blush on top, very firm texture, skin, red blush when ripe, similar
Chestnut Seedling $22 Outstanding flavour, excellent texture excellent flavour, sweet. Ex seedling to River Peach but firmer, sweeter.
Seedlings from extensive research plantation of quality seedlings near Tiniroto, and is very juicy. Red leaves on the tree from Batley in Kaipara. Ripe Our Christina peach is really a local
between Gisborne and Wairoa. Good size and quality nut. Chestnuts require tree. Allow 5-8m. Given to Koanga March / early April Northland variation of the River
deep free draining soil to thrive. by a woman near Ruawai, originally peach that is slightly sweeter and later
from elderly Dalmatian gardener. Ripe fruiting. It came into our collection
nuts late February. from an avid fruit tree collector by the
Walnut Wilson’s Wonder Seedling $22
We've been spelling this Arapahoe name of Mr Phil Hodges, a well known
Large nut, easy to crack and shell for years but have just been informed Paparoa character with a very special
by hand, suitable for most climates the area/road is Arapohue so are orchard himself.
around NZ. These are from an old tree correcting our mistake!
outside Wairoa.
peaches peaches
Four Winds Seedling $28 Green’s Special Seedling $28
Green skin, red blush, and very firm Large, freestone, yellow fleshed peach with a red tinge when ripe.
sweet white flesh and great flavour. Given by Maureen Green. Her brother in law, David Green, said “My father,
Produces huge crops. Ex Kaitaia, from Fred Green, bought two Golden Beauty and two Campbell Seedlings from the
collection trip with David Austen. nursery of Woodyear Smith at Matakana in 1940. Both freestone and ripe in
Ripe February. early february. A seedling grew from one of these which was freestone and ripe
late march. We called it Green's Seedling”
24 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2020 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2020 | 25peaches peaches peaches peaches peaches peaches
Helensville Red Leaf Seedling $28 Hungry Creek Seedling $28 Keri Gold Seedling $28 Mediterranean Block $28 Orion on Peach $36 Pouto River Seedling $28
Medium size greeny skin with red Medium sized with juicy, firm white Fairly large peach. The skin is a golden Medium size, white flesh, medium This is our earliest peach and is River Peaches are the ones that set
blush, amber/yellow fleshed freestone flesh and good flavour. Seedling from colour and when fully ripe has a red firm but very sweet flesh with ripe from mid November to early Kay off on this whole journey, they
peach with the stone the shape of a near Hungry Creek Road near Puhoi. blush. Firm flesh, sweet and juicy with outstanding flavor, skin honey December depending on where you are Ex Kaipara Harbour and are NZ
heart. Flavour is good, but ability Ripe late February /early March a great flavour. Free stone with a slight coloured when ripe with red blush. are located. Smallish, white fleshed Heirloom. They are disease resistant,
to remain in good health in awful red blush around the centre. Ripe Ripe Mid February peach with a red blush on the skin. easy to grow and grow true to seed.
conditions is outstanding. late January. Is an extremely heavy cropper and They are prolific croppers of sweet
Found growing wild on road side on the sweetness varies with season. A medium sized, green skin with a red
the East Coast inland road, reputed fantastic start to the peach season! blush, white fleshed, free stone fruit.
to have been there for years and is Ripen late January. Allow 5-8m.
commonly picked by horse back riders
as they pass.
Peacherines
peaches peaches peaches peacherine
Korako on Peach $36 Mamie Ross on Marianna & Peach $36 Mary's Christmas on Peach $36 Matakohe Seedling $28
Small peach with white flesh. Light We are excited to be able to make this A large, juicy, outstanding red An outstanding new addition to our
green skin turns honey amber when peach available again which came skinned, white fleshed peach. A hardy, collection. This tree came from an old
ripe. Super super sweet and melts in from Mavis Smith’s Totara House healthy tree. Ex. Kaipara. The best orchard still being well maintained in
your mouth. Must be picked and eaten collection in Matakohe. Mamie Xmas peach! the Matakohe area. It’s a sweet melting
as bruises badly. Ross peaches were listed in the early buttery yellow fleshed fruit, with
From Te Whanau A Apanui. Is a very nursery catalogues in NZ in the 1800s. yellow skin, ripe February.
old cultivar from earliest ship captains Large juicy peach with white flesh.
that is now wild in the area. Pale white / green skin with red blush peacherine
when ripe. Excellent dessert peach Robertson's Seedling $28
with lovely sweet flavour. Outstanding Reliable cropper, medium size yellow peacherine with a furry skin, buttery
peaches unlike anything available texture and lots of flavour, very sweet, clingstone, ripe late Feb to early March,
commercially today. Ripe January. great bottling.
26 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2020 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2020 | 27Pears Plums
Rootstock Diameter Canopy Size Preferences Rootstock Diameter Canopy Size Preferences Description
Quince BA29 | Semi Dwarf 2-4m 7 sqm Heavier, wet soils essential. Peach 4-6m 16 sqm Drier, bony soils
rootstock preferred
Marianna / 3-6m 12 sqm Heavier wet soils
Plum rootstock essential
Seedlings 4-6m 16 sqm Heavier wet soils We are beginning to make seedlings available of
essential old tried and true cultivars. We believe seedlings
to hold the potential to be stronger and healthier
trees as well as cheaper to produce and buy.
plums
Black Prince on Marianna $36
pears pears pears Japanese. Large dark red, meaty flesh,
Bert's Bon Chretien on Quince BA29 Clergeau on Quince BA29 $36 Keifir on Quince BA29 $36 purple/green skin, freestone, excellent
$36 Reliable beautiful pear ripe early Large, yellow, russety skin with crisp, taste. Pick over long period, keeps well.
An outstanding selection of William March. Great as a dessert pear or sweet, juicy, firm flesh, excellent Ripens February-March. From an
Bon Chretien. Superior flavour, good for bottling. From Bert Davies keeper. Ex Wellsford, Bert Davies. old French orchard in the Hokianga.
size, ripe early Feb. Good dessert in Wellsford. Pollinator: Seckles, ripens late March. Heavy precocious cropper. Partially
and bottling. Bert had many Bon self-fertile, hedgerow pollinator plums
Chretiens, this one grew and tasted will help.
different. From Bert Davies, Wellsford.
plums
Burbank on Marianna & Peach $36
Large, red/yellow skin, yellow meaty
flesh, excellent flavour, compact
tree, clingstone.
Burbank plums came into the Kaipara
harbour, according to Logan Forrest
with the Dalmatian gumdiggers. They
were in all of the very old orchards,
pears everybody had one! Ripe February.
Triumph de Vienna on Quince BA29
$36
Excellent dessert pear. Outstanding
flavour, large and juicy. Ripe March, plums
after Bon Chretien. One of the very Little John on Marianna & Peach $36
best pears for flavour and texture, Large plums with dark red skin and
large brown russet. From Bert Davies, flesh. They are juicy with a sweet full
Wellsford. This was Bert’s favourite flavour and tend to fruit bi-annually
pears pear (he made pear sandwiches with with a heavy crop one year and a lighter
Seckles on Quince BA29 $36 this one). crop the next. Ripe January/February.
Pollinator of all other pears that need pollinators. Excellent small sweet fruit - This plum is named after the Little
the old ‘honey’ pear of Bohemia. Ripe end of Feb through March. Self-fertile, John family around the Kaiwaka
small tree, if you only have room for one pear, this is it! The bees love it too. From Otamatea branch of the Kaipara who
Bert Davies, Wellsford. passed it to us.
28 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2020 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2020 | 29Cuttings We can supply the following as cuttings
for you to root and grow your own tree.
plums plums plums
Mangamuka Golden Drop on Scarletina on Marianna $36 Tamaki Special on Marianna & Peach cuttings cuttings cuttings cuttings
Marianna $36 Red skin and flesh, outstanding flavour $36 Basket Willow $35 for 6 Egyptian Willow $10 for Elderberry Adam $3 Japanese Fodder Willow $10
Delicious, yellow green, soft fleshed and colour. Great for dessert, jam and Outstanding plum, one of the best cuttings each of 4 varieties. 6 cuttings Fast growing, large bunches for 6 cuttings
plum with transparent skin for bottling. An ex commercial Australian from the collection of Dan Hansen These are professional We have found that this of black berries, even in
basket willows, and will A multi stemmed vigorous
dessert, Self fertile, ripens January. plum it came to us from Matakohe. of Wilderland fame. Large, dark red willow is the most resistant warmer areas of New
grow to have different color, willow selected for it’s long
It came from the school grounds at Self fertile. Ripens mid January. meaty plum which is full of flavour to the large black aphid Zealand. Highly medicinal
length, flexibility, and so on. growing season with leaves
Mangamuka with a big name from and very sweet, great for dessert that is attacking our fruit and flowers. Loves
willows like wet soils and retained into late autumn.
many past pupils. We were gifted this and bottling. Vigorous growing willows today, and it is the wet soils.
the more water available Good for stock fodder and
tree in the 1980’s by somebody who tree. Ripens in late December / early willow best suited to use
will result in more growth, for firewood.
had been a student at the Mangamuka January. Pollinator- Duff’s Early Jewel, as firewood, because it has
school many years before, and knew and others. This plum was gifted to our plant in 30-50cm spacing to very little branching, only
how good it was. It is famous in that collection by the late Dan Hansen of create long upright growth, good strong length of thick
area. Wilderland. Dan was an avid fruit tree and harvest during winter. wood easily cut up, and as
collector and he found this seedling • Common Osier x 6 (salix well as that an excellent bee
growing on an Auckland roadside. viminalis) — Gold forage because the catkins
• Giganta x 6 — Yellow are among the first Spring
• Purple Willow x 6 (salix pollen available for our bees.
purpurea) — Red/Purple
• Unknown x 6 — Yellow
Pomegranate Quince Hedgerow
quince
Quince on Quince BA29 $36
Quince have a delightful fragrance
and a rich full flavour that is
wonderful cooked in fruit dishes
and conserves, where it takes on a
wonderful dark red colour. A strong
grower and extremely productive
which produces large fruit at a young
pomegranate age. Pale lemon-yellow colour fruit hedgerow hedgerow hedgerow
Pomegranate cutting grown $16 with smooth skin and a distinctive Abelia Grandiflora, cutting grown $8 Dogwood, Red Barked, cutting grown Hydrangea, White Mophead, cutting
aroma. The flesh is tender and sweet $8 grown $8
Small deciduous tree to 3m maximum. when cooked. Ripe late February to A fast growing bush with glossy green
Requires a hot full sun position. Mulch March. Self-fertile. Quince does best in foliage. Has fragrant tubular flowers This is an outstanding red barked Love wet places, great annual
to prevent weed competition in early a sunny sheltered site protected from that are white tinged with pink. shrub that is deciduous so stands chopping and dropping to recycle
years. Produces highly renowned wind and frost. On quince rootstock Wonderful bee plant in late summer. out with bright red bark all winter. carbon and nutrients from wet places.
fruit. The quality depends on heat so tolerates heavy soils and requires Excellent hedging plant. Soft stems It is an excellent weaving material Flowers are white with a very pale
when ripening. good moisture level. that are easy to trim into a hedge. rivalling willow, and great mixed blue tinge. Flowers December through
with basket willow in a basket. Good to February.
quince
in a hedgerow or forest garden. If Good in a hedgerow or forest garden.
Chinese Quince Seedling $8 | Pseudocydonia oblonga. Attractive small tree
coppiced to the ground grows long red
up to around 3 metres tall. Produces large, very fragrant quinces that, like other
weaving rods, otherwise becomes a
quinces, are not eaten raw but are cooked and used to make paste, jam or jelly.
bushy shrub.
Trees are ornamental with good autumn colour.
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