Wisemans Ferry Fruit Trees (Popular)
Wisemans Ferry Fruit Trees and the most popular plants Australians buy for mail order. With fruit trees you should consider climate suitability.
Tamarind - Sweet
$79.00
The Tamarind fruit tree is the most widely distributed and appreciated as an ornamental throughout the tropics. This grafted variety was selected from a seedling Sweet selection with very sweet pulp. Tamarind gives many South Indian dishes their character and their dark colour. The tamarind is a slow growing but long lived tree reaching up to 30 metres. It is highly wind resistant with strong graceful branches with rough fissured bark. The fruits look like beans and are borne in great abundance along the new branches.
Dwarfing Tool for Cincturing or Girdling Fruit Trees
$69.00
4.8 mm girdling tool. This Dwarfing Tool allows you to cincture or girdle fruit tree. Please see our video where we demonstrate how to use it.We think there are 2 essential tools for growing Fruit Trees. 1st is secateurs and the 2nd is this Dwarfing Tool.Uses- Dwarfing- Forcing plants to fruit quicker.- Fruiting outside of seasonal times- Alternating branches to fruit every 2nd year.The technique of cincturing or girdling fruit trees is a complicated topic that we try to make simple in this video because many of us like to push the boundaries of what is possible. It may look harmful but has been used by previous generations such as the Old Italian gardeners who knew how to get the most out of their backyard fruit trees.
Avocado - Shepard (B)
$64.00 ($64.00-$89.00 choose a size)
A small to medium pear-shaped fruit with thick, green skin that peels easily. The fruit has an excellent flavour, medium oil content and does not turn brown when cut. H Feb/March The tree has a spreading habit and is a high yielding. It displays good resistance to frost and anthracnose.
Dwarf Plum - Satsuma
$49.00
Red to purple flesh with a freestone. The flavour is good, the growth vigorous and its bears particularly well, in fact to get large fruits it may require thinning. The firm, juicy flesh has a sweet spicy flavour. 350 - 400 hours chill. Bears November to early December.
Cinnamon Tree
$29.00 ($29.00-$49.00 choose a size)
Highly ornamental tree and the source of cinnamon spice. The spice itself is the bark that is peeled from the branches after 2 years. Scrape the bark leave for a day so that the inner bark curls into cinnamon sticks as it dries. The base of the leaf can be chewed for a cinnamon flavour. Cinnamon is a very elegant and useful aromatic, much kinder to the palate than the other spice trees.
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