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BABACO - Champagne Fruit

BABACO - Champagne Fruit

A feature plant in our sub-tropical food gardens at Heronswood, this tropical-looking small tree produces lemon sherbet-flavoured melons, also known as 'Champagne Fruit', in its second year. This is the paw-paw for ...

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One of the world’s best natural sweeteners, the leathery pods are commonly ground as a substitute for cocoa and have been cultivated throughout the Mediterranean as a staple food source for thousands of years. A tough drought-tolerant shade tree that also makes an ideal windbreak in our dry climate. Needs male and female plants to produce the de...

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CHILEAN GUAVA Hedge 5 Pack

CHILEAN GUAVA Hedge 5 Pack

A fruiting replacement for traditional box hedging, Chilean guava is dense, compact, responds well to pruning and gives you fruit too! Suited to full sun and part-shade, with no pest or disease problems, and a fragrance reminiscent of strawberry, you can now have your hedge and eat it too!

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DRAGON FRUIT 'MAGENTA'

DRAGON FRUIT 'MAGENTA'

A new and rare form of this exotic fruit that is storming the fruit markets of the world. The bright magenta-coloured flesh of this fruit looks like confectionery from the lolly shop, and the taste is no disappointment.

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DRAGON FRUIT 'PEARL'

DRAGON FRUIT 'PEARL'

A climbing epiphytic cactus ideal for hot climates. The beautiful and bizarre fruit is shaped like a fiery dragon’s breath with exquisite curls of brilliant coloured skin that cover crunchy sweet pearly-white flesh. Best grown on a rose hoop.

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GLOBE ARTICHOKE 'VIOLETTO'

GLOBE ARTICHOKE 'VIOLETTO'

Ornamental and edible, the purple buds are considered to be the best eating form of artichoke, while the arching silver leaves create a striking garden statement. This dual purpose plant is the perfect addition to the permaculture garden. Produces up to 8 main buds as well as dozens of baby 'chokes throughout the season. Can be cut back hard aft...

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JAPANESE RAISIN TREE

JAPANESE RAISIN TREE

Grown for its unusual edible stems which taste like raisins, once established this beautiful tree is highly productive and an asset to the permaculture garden. An attractive deciduous tree with a rounded canopy that's perfect for a small backyard. The swollen stems develop as the inedible fruit falls off in the autumn. These swollen stems can be...

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PASSIONFRUIT 'BLACK'

PASSIONFRUIT 'BLACK'

Passionfruit are undeniably one of the most popular fruiting climbers in Australia. Whether it's the fact that you can't make a pav without passionfruit, or its ability to quickly cover an unsightly fence, this dual purpose climber from South America is an Aussie backyard favourite. These seed-raised plants are self-pollinating and fast growing....

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PASSIONFRUIT PURPLE

PASSIONFRUIT PURPLE

Create a tropical feel to your garden with the lush Passionfruit vine. Glossy green leaves, beautiful large flowers and edible fruits, one plant easily covers an unsightly fence - able to grow up to six metres in one summer! Undeniably one of the most popular fruiting climbers in Australia, whether it's the fact that you can't make a pav without...

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High in antioxidants with a deliciously tart flavour, use the shiny red berries to decorate cakes or turn them into a sauce to accompany meat and poultry dishes. Easy to grow in cool climates.

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With cherry-like fruit with 65 times more vitamin C than oranges and attractive glossy green leaves, this plant should be more widely grown. A neat and hassle free indoor plant that can fruit up to 3 times a year! If ...

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APRICOT MOORPARK

APRICOT MOORPARK

A UK heirloom from 1668, Moorpark is the most famous of apricots, and was even mentioned in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park as being superior to all other varieties. With huge rich juicy sweet fruit to 7cm wide, this is widely recognised as THE best tasting apricot.

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APRICOT 'TREVATT'

APRICOT 'TREVATT'

An Aussie heirloom from 1900, this commercial variety helps to extend your season, ripening after 'Moorpark'. Popular with orchardists for its large rounded fruit, this mid-season self-pollinating variety bears highly aromatic fruits which are great for dehydrating due to their firm texture. Incredibly flavourful when ripened on the tree.

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The huge cannonball-like fruit can weigh up to half a kilo making this variety perfect for even the greediest of avocado lovers. The elegant tree grows taller than it is wide so it can block next doors two-storey ...

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BANANA 'BLUE JAVA'

BANANA 'BLUE JAVA'

Originating from Hawaii, this banana variety gets its name from the blue-green colour of the immature fruit. When ripe, the fruit turn yellow and have a soft, sweet flesh and a flavour reminiscent of vanilla ice- ...

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BLOOD PLUM 'SATSUMA'

BLOOD PLUM 'SATSUMA'

A true blood plum with dark-red, mid-sized, rounded fruits are borne on vigorous upright branches that develop a willowy habit. The fruit is sweet with a hint of tart making it both a fresh eater as well as the perfect plum for jams and preserves. Partially self-pollinating but will improve in the compa...

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Revelling in scorching, dry heat, this Mediterranean gourmet delight will start to produce the flower buds (which can be pickled or dry salted) in its second year. Produces up to 8kg of buds when mature. One year ...

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Imagine the delicious aroma of freshly-roasted coffee beans, made even more magical because you grew them yourself! An attractive small shrub with glossy dark-green leaves and fragrant white spring flowers, followed by delicious coffee beans. A must for any frost-free garden and also popular as an indoor plant in colder climates.

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FEIJOA - PINEAPPLE GUAVA

FEIJOA - PINEAPPLE GUAVA

Highly aromatic and delicious torpedo-shaped fruits are produced in abundance from fluffy red and white flowers with edible petals. A tough screening shrub, hedge or small tree, feijoas are drought-tolerant once established. Queen Victoria is rumoured to have adored them. Try them yourself and you’ll be enchanted by their unusual flavour.

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GOLDEN FRUIT OF THE ANDES (NARANJILLA)

GOLDEN FRUIT OF THE ANDES (NARANJILLA)

Huge furry leaves tinged with purple are enough reason to grow this rare subtropical fruit. At home in a pot as a house plant or in the garden in a sheltered spot. Spheres of orange-green fruit yield juice that is said to ...

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GOOSEBERRY CAPTIVATOR

GOOSEBERRY CAPTIVATOR

Cold hardy, disease resistant and almost thornless, this popular self-fertile gooseberry produces large sweet tear shaped purple fruit in summer. Capturing the best traits of both European and American Gooseberries and released to growers in 1949, it is still the most popular variety available today.

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JAPANESE GINGER

JAPANESE GINGER

The edible flower buds of Japanese Ginger are a prized delicacy, both fresh and preserved, and is the source of the ginger most commonly found on the side of your sushi plate. ...

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KIWIFRUIT COLLECTION

KIWIFRUIT COLLECTION

Hayward is the most widely grown kiwi in the world because of its superlative flavour and large fruit. This collection contains two female plants and a male to pollinate them - guaranteeing you get a bumper crop....

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LOQUAT NAGASAKIWASE

LOQUAT NAGASAKIWASE

An excellent evergreen shade tree for small gardens producing early crops of fruit. The tough skin is easily peeled to reveal the deep orange flesh.

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Member Exclusives

OLIVE GROVE COLLECTION

OLIVE GROVE COLLECTION

Start your own olive grove with this great value collection. Includes two plants each of ‘Frantoio’ for Italian style olive oil, ‘Kalamata’ for the table and ‘Manzanillo’ for stuffing and pickling.

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2yr membership +FREE vegie seeds

2yr membership +FREE vegie seeds

Membership: MNE2VS

Grow the best tasting vegies with free Carrot ‘St Valery', Broccoli ‘Romanesco', Beetroot ‘Bull’s Blood' and Silverbeet ‘Fordhook’ seeds (one packet of each, valued at $21).

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