Fruit trees in Perth WA

Cuong says...
pictures above:

1) custard apple X 2
2) longan tree
3) jackfruit from tree in picure #4
4) jackfruit (grafted- 4 yrs in ground)

here are more trees...

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Cuong says...
above pictures are:

1)hydroponic grape tomato grown at work (i know these are not trees...)

2)bowen/kensington pride mango

3)bowen/kensington pride mango

4)jackfruit grwon from seed

also have lychee and water roseapple (wax jambu)

Cuong says...
Hi Amanda,

the trees are actually my parents. They feed it NPK blue and chicken poo. Also they cover the top of the soil with old coco-peat from our hydroponic farm so that the ground doesnt dry out too much in summer (stresses the plants)

I think mulching it with most other things is good (like pea hay)

Very recently they are no longer using the above feed and have moved too organic based fertilisers

Synthetic fertilisers and chicken poo can do lots of damage to fruit trees as they are slow growing compared to vegetables (vegetables can take up nutrients faster)

therefore using organic based fertilisers will help/eliminate leaf burning and dropping off flowers/fruit

HappyEarth says...
Awesome photos Cuong. Thats a good collection of sub-tropical trees growing in Perth. How did the jakfruit taste?

Cuong says...
Hi all,

Michael: the pomelo is not sweet but not very sour either. I have another pomelo tree of a different variety at work, will bring a camera and take pictures of that.

Happy Earth: just cut down the fruit a few days ago, still trying to make it ripen so we can taste it! have 5 fruits in its first year of fruiting

Cuong says...
the above:

1) another longan tree
2) Bosworth 3 / Kwai Mai Pink lychee
3) lemone tree
4) two pomelo trees
5) wax jambu / water rose apple
6) duku tree (very rare in australia)

amanda says...
Hi Cuong.... I see your bore water has a lot of iron in it ... did your folks ever have the water tested at all? I am really interested in Perth bore water as I think it has some elements in it (like iron and possibly sulphur) that my plants just thrived on when I lived in Dianella.

Cuong says...
yes, the bore does have lots of iron, not sure how many ppm - not ideal really...

trick is to irrigate to the leaves dont get wet! and then stained!!

Cuong says...
Hi Ellen,

The Jackfruit tree is a 4 yr old grafted tree

Ellen says...
Cuong

long term planning, that JF you've planted from seed (4yo) it look so close to your home?

I hopes it is a Dwarf in size or you won't let it grow over 2-3 m , b/c if it is not a Dwarf, and you let it grow as they do in Asia,,,definitely in 10+ yrs it's very destructive to the foundation of that home in the picture .

tecko says...
Thank you, Coung.

Cuong says...
Hi Marianna, sorry but the fruit arent mine, they are grown by my parents.

We have a fairly large extended family so the fruit doesnt stretch far!!!

Elke says...
Hi, there is a nursery calles Tass1Trees in the Swan Valley. Joe has all sorts of trees for a good price. He is only open on weekends.

Ronald says...
Wandilla Nursery in 811 Welshpool Road, East Wattle Grove, Ph: 08 9453 9779.

Has all in stcok right now, they are open 7 days.

andy says...
Lychee Tree - for the first time in 10 years, some fruits managed to stay on the tree due to late arrival of the windy period.
Almost ready to eat.
The tree is about 3m tall and has aproximately 500 fruits. We still lost about 90% of the fruits to the wind though, when they were much smaller.

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Peter says...
Congrats, Andy!
What are the details of the tree?
I assume it is a marcotted plant.
Do you know the cultivars name?

amanda says...
Wow! That's great Andy! U must tell us all about it please?!
My small one drops it's fruit at the first hot easterlies too..(it's only small tho and in a tree sack - and I am always away when it happens)

I wonder if it's just a natural thing due to too much fruit - or a humidity and water issue...? It's a curious tree that really interests me...

(edit: can I ask what suburb u are in? Is your soil sandy?

amanda says...
Interesting info Andy. Yes - mine are very small and green when they drop too.
Mine in a shadehouse - but it still cops the hot easterly. It's just bad timing isn't it...I am hoping mine will do better when we take it south (Leschenault) where it's more protected by big trees..

Great pic tho...it's always really exciting to see people pulling off these kinds of fruit in WA soils/climate. Gives the rest of us hope! :)

beerzy says...
sampodilla in the big pot?? Nah don't think so Ian and it sounds like your dad has a seed not air layered or grafted plant.
garden is best for plant

Jim says...
Hi Sav, in Perth you could give the usual suspects a call such as Tass One or Wandilla. However, given that you are in Tom Price it may be cheaper to get them straight from Daleys.

Julie says...
MJ, which suburb? It makes a lot of difference. Some of the ones you mention wanting to grow may not do well near the coast.

Gus says...
Hey MJ

I used to live in Floreat.

I reckon it may be worth getting some clay into your soil to help with water retention, and then fill it up with some good organic matter.
I have had good fortune with peaches (dwarf tree), feijoa(highly recommended) citrus, and a couple of exotics that you wont find in the shops.
I think you may need some cold weather for apples, but now sure for plums and pears.

Julie says...
MJ, when Italians moved into inner Perth suburbs last century, they always planted a fig, grape, mulberry,almond and lemon. These will all do well.

Friends years ago had a prolific apricot in Nedlands - don't know what it was, but could have been Newcastle early, which doesn't need as much chill.

Any chance you could get someone to graft the plum and pear you mention onto rootstock for you?

MJ says...
Amanda, I've never tried a white sapote, but I'll keep an eye out for them in the shops. I agree about the hobby factor, my garden isn't big enough for anything that isn't good eating.

How big is your Tropic Snow?

I've got a spot where I'm a bit worried there won't be enough sun, certainly afternoon shade. Maybe that is a good spot to try a plum. I've had advice that it might be a good spot for the apples as they will apparently take a bit of shade.

Julie, brilliant idea about seeing if I can find someone to graft for me. I hadn't thought of that.

Bye
MJ

amanda says...
I don't think White Sapotes need to get too big..? Mine are grafted Lemon golds and at 3 or 4yrs old my trees are still under my height (1.7m)

Pruning is the answer though - with any fruit trees - if you take out the leader branch at a height you want to maintain (and do the same with any subsequent leaders/dominant branches down the track) then u should be ok.

It's not too hard once u get the hang of it...I managed to teach myself thru some books and then thru practice. I am average at pruning still - but the trees are very forgiving in general ;-)

Most of my trees (in ground) are just under 2m tall and are around 5yrs old and very productive - there is peach, apple, nectarine, many citrus types, white sapote, guavas, apricot.

I would expect many of these to be kept comfortably at 3m max. I guess if you spoil them too much you might get a huge tree and not too much fruit ;-)

I'd go for dwarfing rootstock wherever possible...so much easier to manage the trees.

It's important to know what wood to prune and when...as fruiting can be on current growth, 1yr growth - or old growth - depending on the fruit.

It's not rocket science..you just need to keep a little diary with your reminders in it :)

MJ says...
I do live in a fruit fly area but I'm planning to bag and net fruit to avoid having to spray. A loquat is a nice idea. A jaboticaba too, but I'd like to try the fruit first.

I'd like to try blueberries. Eventually I'll have quite a few shady areas.

I'd also like to try raspberries, but I think they'll need containment in a large pot!

MJ

denise says...
You should be able to get smaller growing white sapote variety in Australia as we have many in New Zealand. such as PIKE and LUKE.They wont go more than 4 meters and can be kept at 3 meters. You can keep them even shorter.Plant the new tree with another bushy tree right next to it at the same time. The other bush will crowd the middle of the sapote thus preventing taller growing upward branches that usually come from the middle. The side branches will grow outwards only at a handy low height for picking. You can do this dwarfing trick with many other fruit trees such as figs.Any side growth sneaking on too high an angle can be weighted down.

kim says...
I'm convinced. :) Just have to think of where to put it (i'm fast funning out of space!). I also want a mamey sapote... :D

Gus says...
Are your sapotes dwarf amanda?

I would assume if you are keeping them small by pruning, they would still have an extensive root system?
I hope you can tell me otherwise as you have got me interested in them, but I only have a small area close to a wall. We kind of need that wall standing too.

On a side note I made a ripper of a tomato sauce this arvo. Thanks again for the recipe!

Gus says...
I am going to have to think about the white sapote as it will be less than a metre from a half wall half fence kind of thing. Having said that, it wouldn't be the end of the world if it was disrupted, just a pain in the bum. Maybe it would be better sticking it in a pot?

The sauce has a really nice tangy flavour. I found it took a really long time to thicken up, but it was worth the effort. I only had 8 kilos of tomatoes but they filled a huge stock pot. You must have an enormous pot to carry 15kgs of tomatoes?

amanda says...
I will go out on a limb myself here...I like this fruit better than a MANGO!? OMG! Shhh.... ;-)

MJ says...
A white sapote sounds gorgeous, but sounds like the root system is too big for my garden. Bit of a shame. Still, I've got these on my list:

Apples, lemon, orange, mandarin, midgim berries, blueberries, raspberries (in a pot for containment), fig (in a pot) plums, mango, almond, grapes, dwarf tropical nectarine, dwarf tropical peach, strawberries, kiwis, passionfruit, and assorted veg dotted around the garden, and in a couple of veg beds.

I think I'm quite pleased with that list.
MJ

MJ says...
Gus, our garden designer drew the blueberries into the garden, but I agree with you - I think they'd be much better off in a pot. Even if the clean soil I bring in is acidic, I think our bore water is probably quite alkaline.

I'm so glad you told me about the Trixie - it is what was suggested, but I was worried it wouldn't fruit in Perth. I can't find anything about their chill factors.

Thanks!
MJ

MJ says...
Gus, what size pots do you have, and do you recall what kind of blueberries you have?

Thanks
MJ

amanda says...
I agree with you Gus....with our alkaline sands and (likely) tap water - I am leaving mine in tree sacks too. Mine are in a shadehouse permanantly - they get loads of nice big berries (Sharpe and Misty also :) - so no problem with pollination either..

It's an incredibly difficult mission to acidify alkaline sands in the long term isn't it.....sulphur is harsh - and hot compost making is a labour of love!? :)

amanda says...
I wish I had imported a heap of quality red loam, now, in hindsight MJ. It would have saved me 5yrs of hard labour and huge expense...they say sand breaks your heart - and it's true! :-)

MJ says...
Not sure if I'm allowed to post links here, so fingers crossed.

Here is a link to a Jackie French article on groves, which suggests that macadamias might be okay in those conditions:
http://www.jackiefrench.com/groves.html

snottiegobble says...
Where are you haakon? Conditions, types of soils & the results from additives are so different in WA to the Eastern states!

MJ says...
I'm putting together a list and will email or ring him with it. I won't need them for a few more months (July, hopefully) but no reason I can't be putting in an order sooner.

Now that it looks like a macadamia will cope with some shade, I'd really like to have to dwarfs in pots.

Thanks!
MJ

kim says...
Blooming Nursery in Jandabup is definitely worth a trip as well MJ, they have a huge selection with very reasonable prices IMHO. I have been to all the other nurseries and maybe its just me, but they seem to have the largest collection of all. :) can't recommend them highly enough. And no, I don't know the owner or anyone that works there, but since going there end of last year, i can't seem to stay away.

MJ says...
Gus, I have thought of a Jaboticaba off and on, but it hasn't made it to the list. The garden designer did, however, put a possible Feijoa in. I'm not keen on this as I think it is a fruit fly magnet, and I have enough of those planned. LOL. Maybe I could swap it for a jaboticaba. Do you know how big they get?

Will check out that nursery, Kim. Thanks!

MJ

BJ says...
Hi MJ,
My feijoa are Bunning's Seedlings. They do fruit eventually - althought with the seedlings the fruit size, shape and taste is highly variable between the plants. I've not had any fruit fly attack them (the skin seems pretty thick) and they have created a convenient hedge.
I understand you're just starting out and may want to see how things go. I'm originally from the East so have made loads of mistakes. But - if you want to see how things cope my direct contact details can be found via the gumtree link I included (I'm letting my dwarf fig go - trying to tidy up). You'd be welcome to any cuttings you can get, and to see what has worked for me and what has failed.

MJ says...
Gus, I will go to Herdsman and see if I can try the fruit.

BJ, that would be great! I left a message for you on your page about your almond - wondering if you had an update now it has been longer in the ground?

Bye
MJ

Gus says...
have you had any great feijoas B.J with jellyish centres?

MJ says...
Kim, they don't seem to have a website that I can find. Will have to pop out there with my list. (Which is getting longer thanks to this thread, LOL.)
MJ

MJ says...
Ah, so they fruited for you? That is good to know. My garden designer wasn't sure they'd fruit down on the coastal plain, but I *really* want an almond! This isn't their prettiest season, is it? Ah well, I always think it is best to see these things at their worst!
MJ

amanda says...
Not sure about how much overall shade for apples MJ - but afternoon shade in the summer would suit them I reckon! :)

My apples find the all-day sun way too much for them here.

Many fruit trees will not fruit as well if they are too shaded....but sometimes I wonder if we can get away with a little bit of shading from Perth->North as the sunlight is so intense.

Would be interesting to see what others have achieved.

How much shade are you looking at do you think?

amanda says...
I'd like to know more about this issue too MJ.
Winter might not be such a problem as they are deciduous anyway? But it's a good point MJ - as not everyone has full access to the sun in suburbia these days...especially with block sizes shrinking etc..

I have not seen any 'research' on what might be optimal direct sunlight hours, for fruit trees.

(but south of a north facing screen doesn't sound good for apples...the blueberries should be very happy though :)

amanda says...
Thanks Perth-BJ - that's good info...I wonder if other Perthites have had similar problems with too much sun..?

"Full sun" has been too much for almost ALL of my fruit trees....bar the very toughest and/or "neediest" (acerola, passionfruit, fig etc)
I realise it's a bit hotter up here - but it's not that far and very comparable, I feel.

What really annoys me are plant labels in general....many that have stated Full Sun - have not coped at all here...I wonder if that is "Full Sun (but in Victoria)" or something?! :D

It's not the same all across Aust...and I sure am tired of the lack of understanding for the WA climate :-(

Anyway - I was too lazy to rip my apple leaves off this last season BJ...and it flowered and fruit really well..!? (apples got sunburnt in the end tho..lol..bloody sun...)

GardeningAustraliaWanabee says...
Full sun means full sun. If you chose to grow fruit in an arid desert, well you're fighting against nature and really it's a great waste of resources (water) in trying to fight it. Don't blame the plant labels.
Even the Arabs in the Middle east have woken up to this fact and are buying arable land in Africa and elsewhere.

Gus says...
Kim you are right. Bloomings in Jandabup are they best fruit tree place I have seen in Perth.
Wish I had seen them earlier.
I paid $100 for a Jabotiba tree elsewhere, and saw Bloomings with much better looking trees for only $68.
We got a few plants aswell that were great prices.

snottiegobble says...
There has been at least one deletion on this thread.
One of them asks Gardening/Australia/ Wannabee to elaborate on his/her post 20th April. I see no reason for this action & so ask GAW to explain also!

MJ says...
Did anyone see that Tass1 is going to have a stock clearance auction?

I thought I'd go down ahead of time and have a stickybeak and see what he has.

MJ says...
That's worth knowing, Gus. Thanks.
I need a lot of stuff as I'm planting a new garden, so I will go and see.

Ben Silver says...
here we go. apparently it was personal.I don't know how that can be so.Seems we have some hypocrits on this forum.

"what an odd comment GardeningAustraliaWannabee? Would you like to support that further perhaps?
Status: Deleted; Reason: Personal 2012-04-20 23:57:55"

Jim says...
Hi MJ

With regard to Tass1 auctions, from my last experience there were some bargains but also people bidding over the retail price which was really annoying after waiting hours for an item to come up.

Jim says...
By all means it may be worth it, but last year I did exactly that and in the end there are people who didn't check or didn't care about the price and paid overs. I would only consider it again if there were a bunch of plants sold in a lot that were worth buying all at once, as there may be bargains to be found that way.

BJ says...
MJ,
If you're willing to take cuttings (mulberries, feijoa, guava etc) then you've a good chance at getting something you know thrives in the environment. Many of my plants are grafted, but I've taken a few more mulberry cuttings (no space for them, so they'll be donated to anyone who wants them if they root) and I'm willing to try feijoa / guava / sublime etc. You can save money and get a plant you like. Also, if you check out gardens you can see what plants cope well, and which ones don't. I made several mistakes by putting in "exotic" plants not suited to WA and they have struggled (Jap plumbs for instance). Much easier to have something suited to the area! I did, however, purchase over 30 trees in the first instance from the supplier (Olea) so they were half the price of a nursery ... but you need an ABN and to sweet-talk the company.

Gus says...
Are the white sapote really that great Amanda?
I bought one from the markets and although it was very sweet, but I didn't find it to be interesting.
i think this is the sort of thing being mentioned on the Jab forum as I can say that the sapote I tried kind of put me off them

MJ says...
BJ I tried cuttings from a girlfriend's mulberry and didn't have any luck. I might try again. I also tried from the pear I mentioned earlier, but again, no success. :( (I did have a lot of success with other cuttings I took, so I'm not taking it too personally.)

Gus, the garden has been designed with all our staples in, (hopefully) in a way that will give us some fruit most of the year, so I've got a specific list of trees that I want to put in. Fortunately we lived on the site for 14 years prior to bulldozing, so we know where the light is etc. Also, some of the trees are important for our climate management inside the house, so they have to go in asap.

Amanda, how large is your tropic snow, and does it take a bit of shade? I've found (somewhere) a dwarf tropical peach and a nectarine that I'm keen to try. It will need to be kept small in this spot.

kim says...
Hi All

Came back from Blooming with two small feijoa trees/shrubs!! I've never tried the fruits until today but have always wanted a tree after reading about the ornamental value of this tree. I've seen them @ Blooming on previous visits but didn't want to buy the big trees so i was ecstatic when i spotted the last two small trees near some flowering type plants - just had to have them! Guess the sapote, sapodilla and second miracle fruit tree will have to wait for another day...

When i mentioned i had never tasted the fruit before, the owner, Mr Wa generously offered me some fruits from his tree - they taste great! i don't think the ones i had were fully ripe as there was no jelly like centres, but still very sweet and tasty. Here's to hoping my trees will give me fruits of the same quality in time... :D

amanda says...
I dream of some good feijoas too Gus...! MJ my tropic snow is roughly 2 or 2.5m tall..? It's about 4 or 5yrs old now.
Most of my trees are not very tall considering their age...I guess the salt here keeps them a bit stunted :) (I am coastal and have saline water)

I also prune to keep trees to a height that is easy to work with...? They carry plenty of fruit for us. It's easy to prune them once u get the hang of it...it's just a matter of heading dominant branches off a bit - so that they don't "take over" and get too tall/big.

I didn't let my trees carry fruit until they were 2yrs old (in ground age) - and even then I only kept strategic fruit (to weigh down branches) for the next year. This allowed them to develop a nice strong framework. My little west indian lime (1.5m) carried 15kg of fruit last season, no problems.

In my next garden I plan on using as many dwarfing rootstocks as I can get away with., for fruit trees.

amanda says...
Lucky you Gus! Are your plants homebrand/generic ones or named? How old etc...?
Mine is a lonely Bunno's generic - it flowers but needs a friend to make fruit I think...

amanda says...
Great Gus! That was really fast?! I would have pulled mine up and started again if I had known that :)

I don't suppose we can import these guys anymore - guavas were caught up in that ban due to the myrtle rust too...?

Hang onto them Gus - we may all be beating a path to your door for cuttings one day!? :D

MJ says...
Nick, I have had fruit fly issues too. I'm planning to keep my trees small enough to net (either the whole tree, or bunches of fruit) with the fruit fly net. Apparently it needs to have mesh no larger than 2mm?

Fruit fly are such a menace. :(

Gus says...
Anyone else had success beating fruit fly?
Have you tried bagging them in mesh Nick? I suspect that is probably the only way.

Gus says...
I have never heard of them?
Where do you get them from Mary?

Here are the pics of my feijoa trees.
They don't look like much but they have been great.

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MJ says...
Mary, do you know if it is silk organza, or a synthetic, and also what colour it is? Do you think colour would matter?

I have a length of gorgeous embroidered silk organza in a lovely light purple. It was $5/m which is *really* cheap and I bought it because I loved it, but with no real use for it. I like the idea of using a silk organza for fruit fly bags (I'd make my own) as it is a bit stiff and would hopefully not droop down onto the fruit, but I'm wondering a little about whether the colour would matter...

MJ says...
Oh, how pretty! It would look like a Christmas tree!

nick says...
Thanks all you guys for my inquiry about fruit fly,i am off to buy some of the suggested cloth and talk the missus into sewing them up for next season.
Thanks again and if anybody wants a macadamia nut seeding let me have your email. You can see the Mother tree in fruit.

MJ says...
Anyone grow fruit trees (dwarfs, I guess) in wine barrels? Any tips for a newbie? I assume that I will need to pay more attention to watering, and keep it well mulched and fertilised, more than in the ground.

Gus says...
I haven't used wine barrels but have used similair sized pots and had good results.
In some ways it is even preferable in that you can easily moderate the amount of nutrients and water the trees get.

Good on you Kim. i am no expert, but can only speak for good experiences with a named tree. You may well get good fruit anyway. You could even check with the guys at the store if it is named or not.

amanda says...
Hey guys (n Gus) the white sapotes from Margaret River have landed in my F&V shop this week. Gus - yes they are a bit blander than my own ones (just had ate one!)

I find home grown usually tastes better for most stuff...but it could also be a variety issue too. My Lemon Gold definately more fragrant and a bit more complex and tasty.

jason best person to ask about this tho.

Gus says...
I would personally avoid putting large trees in pots. I am just a novice gardener so don't have the skills to avoid trouble.
I have had problems with trees becoming root bound and being too big and unmanagable. I think to avoid root bounding you may have to pull the tree out the pot and cut the roots back.
I also think I nicely proportioned dwarf in a decent sized pot looks better than something thats clearly overgrowing.

MaryT says...
MJ I always say to people DON'T plant trees in pots if they have a choice. I don't; it's either looking at a patch of concrete or use containers to grow them. I could have planted small shrubs but I like to walk beside something taller than me and pick fruit.

Yes it is a gigantic task to repot overgrown trees especially when you need room to do it and the reason I have containers is because I don't have room. Luckily I had the use of my neighbour's car space right next to my garden (which was my car space).

Yes it is important to choose the right type. I planted a plum that shot up so much in a couple of years and wanted to keep growing that I had to give it away (which as it turned out is a great solution compared to repotting and pruning). I didn't have the heart to mulch it as it is a beautiful tree. It is now growing in the ground at a young couple's home; their bare backyard was instantly filled with my overgrown trees and I got the pots back to start again :)

I'm new to dwarfs so I only have a couple. Too soon to tell whether they're a good idea. The others I find I need to prune them to the size of the pot. Trees need large pots. My largest are 70cm; I don't have room for anything bigger and anyway they'd be too heavy to handle. They are plastic so although I can't lift them I can push and pull them around. I am only five foot two (that's a measurement of my height for you young ones)

The thing I have to say about putting sand in the mix would be that it would make the pots heavy. Also sand does not hold water or nutrients.

MJ says...
Wow Amanda. I hadn't seen him before and I've been looking on gumtree. Might email him about his mangos.

Mary, I've got my ficuses in 50cm square terracotta pots and there is no way I can move them. I've got them on feet so the removalists were able to get a trolley under. I was planning to start with 70cm wine barrels, and then to go up if needed to 1 metre pots for some of them. Pots that size are very expensive, though, so I was going to wait until (a) I find some that I love and (b) I can afford them and (c) the plants need a bigger pot. LOL at myself.

I did wonder, though, if I get my garden soil as good as I want it, by adding clay and compost, why I wouldn't use that (maybe adding some vermiculite or similar) in a pot. It seems that I could then just keep adding compost and manure and then only need to do anything when it needed root pruning (eventually, when it is in its final pot). Will ponder on that one. We do at least have room to tip them over and work.

Julie says...
Mary, I have those terracotta coloured ones. Thinking of putting blueberries in them.
I picked up three pots like yours (the blue ones) from the annual rubbish clean-up. They were faded, but nothing wrong with them apart from that.

MJ says...
We have weekly rubbish pickup and fortnightly recycling, depending on where you live. Then we have an additional bulk rubbish collection for items that won't fit, like old compost tumblers or tree prunings. In our area we have them twice a year and are always fascinated by what people will take.

Jim says...
Just a report on Bloomings. I got someone to pick up a white sapote (Lemon gold) for me whilst they were up that way. Very large (appx 10ft including pot) and healthy tree for the price ($68). Definitely cheaper than equivalent at other nurseries.

grub says...
heres some pictures of some mangoes grown in harvey wa the middle one is a nam doc mi there other 2 are bowens and the fruit on them are huge easy 1kg.they just had fruit of them and the doc is throwing flowers again .i did get a seed of the nam doc mi so we will seee how she goes ,next year im going to grapht some of the nam doc on to my other mangoes.they are 20 years old and the clay they are growing in is as hard as a rock,

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SueBee says...
Hi Amzad,I have been helping my daughter garden near Fremantle for several years ,If you are sandy like her then you need to add LOTS of compost.I buy the home delivered mushroom/sheep/cow manure mix that is advertised in the paper.Most WA natives will do ok in the sandy soil,but if you want to grow edibles then you need to build up your soil big time before planting as the sand is water repellent and nothing will thrive unless you make the soil more water retentive and nutritious with heaps of compost. Good luck.