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do you know this plant? a challenge for the green-fingered!
- Thread starter susie bun
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Blackberry & Co
Wise Old Thumper
Hmmm.....fig?
parsnipbun
Wise Old Thumper
kiwi fruit?
susie bun
Wise Old Thumper
Well done! :thumb:
parsnipbun
Wise Old Thumper
susie bun
Wise Old Thumper
mmmm - I am a Garden Historian by profession
That's almost cheating! :no:
parsnipbun
Wise Old Thumper
well Im not a horticulturalist or a garden designer or gardener - so its not really cheating . . .
The Duchess
Wise Old Thumper
Oh yes it is! :lol::lol::lol:
parsnipbun
Wise Old Thumper
no really - now if someone had asked when the kiwi fruit was first introduced to England, and who was the plant hunter that found it and brought it to England . . and I told you . . . then THAT would have been cheating :lol::lol:
parsnipbun
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well - ok- 1904 from China and discovered and brought over by the plant hunter Ernest 'Chinese' Wilson . . who also discovered the Lilium Regale in Tibet and was caught in a landslide on his way home with thousands of bulbs of them, and broke his leg, and ever after walked with what he called his "Lily Limp'
parsnipbun
Wise Old Thumper
Am I likely to get any kiwi fruits from it?
not in Ayrshire I wouldnt have thought - not ripe ones anyway - unless you can build a small glasshouse around it.
also you need both a female and male plants. . . (common with lots of fruiting plants)
also it may well be an ornamental rather than fully fruiting variety -
susie bun
Wise Old Thumper
I'm not really into gardening I'm afraid, but I've become really quite interested in this plant - just seems so odd to have a kiwi plant in Ayrshire. We acquired it from a very green-fingered friend of my parents. It has certainly grown a lot since it arrived.
