https://awaytogarden.com/oddball-fruits-from-around-the-globe-with-hortus-arboretum/ 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener Wed, 24 Jul 2024 01:49:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://awaytogarden.com/oddball-fruits-from-around-the-globe-with-hortus-arboretum/comment-page-8/#comment-1391568 Wed, 24 Jul 2024 01:49:58 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=54693#comment-1391568 I grow Paw Paw, blueberries, elderberries and more in zone 5. I would love this book.

]]> https://awaytogarden.com/oddball-fruits-from-around-the-globe-with-hortus-arboretum/comment-page-8/#comment-1391381 Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:47:10 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=54693#comment-1391381 I know it’s too late for my comment to be entered into the contest for a book but wanted to tell you about my not too odd tree because there’s quite a few in my region now. I live in Sidney, Vancouver Island and I have a fig tree rooted from a branch that I brought up from Washington state, my folks place in Sequim, Washington. My mom had always called it Peter’s honey fig tree. It is when ripe a golden pale green color on the outside and a most delicious purple inner fruit. The term ambrosia comes to mind whenever I bite into or Should I say, slurp up one of the fruits . As we have a very healthy population of raccoons and squirrels, who also love to devour this fruit, I’ve taken to bagging the first crop With bags made of shade cloth. They are translucent, versus the transparent commercial bags sold for fruits, such as apples. We have a lovely fruit tree nursery located nearby so figs are becoming very common as bcare citrys trees with our Mediterranean climate. Happy fruit growing all.!

]]> https://awaytogarden.com/oddball-fruits-from-around-the-globe-with-hortus-arboretum/comment-page-8/#comment-1390634 Sun, 14 Jul 2024 11:10:53 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=54693#comment-1390634 AND THE WINNER IS: Laura. Thank you all for sharing your adventures with edibles.

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