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Dec 31, 2007 | 11:09 PM PST
Tags: Soybean , beans , olives , mango , sweetpea
One of my bean plants has flowered! I planted King of the Blues and soybeans.. and I think this must be a KoB flower.
My mango fruit is growing larger and the olives are also increasing in size. Yesterday we planted out some climbing wisteria and a small bamboo. The garden is slowly looking less neglected. I planted some sweetpeas and they are so cute! I have never seen them except on the seed packet, and they were much more charming than I'd expected. Hope everyone has a good new year. Xx Shiukopuppy
Dec 24, 2007 | 8:25 PM PST
Tags: olive , mango , coffee , tomatoes , black currant , grapes
Hi all! I hope you're having a good xmas. I've been so busy lately and I haven't had time to play in the garden - how depressing! I spent the whole of winter looking forward to this season.. but we have gone away for the last 6 weekends.
Anyway garden updates.. I bought a dwarf mango tree. Will try to keep it alive in my cooler district. I have a broken heart as a possum ate all of the leaves on my young avocado tree and I'm not sure if it will grow back. Our coffee plant is growing vigorously but I haven't seen any sign of berries..! Tomatoes, currants and grapes are also fruiting.
Here is blurry picture of a young olive: 
Jul 19, 2007 | 2:37 AM PST
Tags: guava , grapes , nashi , Pomegranates , almond , coffee , avocado , berries , lime , Lemon , strawberries , water apple , lychee , durian , mango , star fruit , papaya , honeydew , dragon fruit
There are varying climates in Australia, but I currently live in a temperate area. I'm growing the fruits that need winter chilling but I'm dreaming of the fresh fruit of hot summery places! There are things that I just can't grow here or at least not grow well. Especially right in the middle of winter! It's heartbreaking to taste the fruit in the shops and even sadder when the fruit has come a long way and suffers in flavour for it.
Rambutans here are overpriced and old. I used to eat fresh mangoes, dates, pomegranates, papyas and honeydews when I lived overseas. I even ate durians. The shrivelled tiny star fruits in the shops here are unappetising. Lime and lychee drinks - not financially viable! Bananas are expensive because there was a typhoon in the banana growing areas. Earlier this year I visited a fruit farm and spice gardens in Malaysia where I tasted dragon fruit and my new favourite is the wax jambu or water apple. Above is me at the farm gesturing to a plant that I forgot what it was!
So you can see that I love to eat!! This is a major motivator in the garden. Hopefully one day I can garden in a tropical setting. And I comfort myself that I get to grow a lot of my current plants that would not survive in the tropics. As spring is nearing, I am checking all my fruit/trees' health.
GUAVA: Died back completely this winter, but I read somewhere that they recover well.
GRAPES: Still can't figure out how to prune them - it has been a few years of struggle..
NASHI: Had some rust or something last summer. I have dealt with that. It's about to bud-burst!
POMEGRANATES, ALMOND, COFFEE, BERRIES: Still very dormant
AVOCADO: Looks cold and sad!
LIME: Going crazy, looks to be outgrowing its container
LEMON: Not looking very motivated..
STRAWBERRIES: Now they are working very hard :)
