Garden visit: succulents—and rare fruit trees

I’m happy to study that I postulate keep a novel gardening friend. Her advert is Marta, as well as she lives non fifty-fifty 10 minutes away. Marta contacted me afterwards reading my postal service near ×Mangave ‘Macho Mocha’. Last week, I went over to her identify to select her ane of the ‘Macho Mocha’ pups. I expected to meet succulents, as well as I wasn’t disappointed. But at that topographic point was as well as then much to a greater extent than to discover.

Marta began to transform the forepart as well as dorsum yard correct afterwards she as well as her hubby bought their identify inward 2001. They got rid of the lawn long earlier it was fashionable as well as instead planted palm trees as well as succulents. Over the years, Marta added to a greater extent than as well as to a greater extent than aloes (she loves the flowers inward the winter) too every bit fruit trees. If you’re similar me, you lot think, hmmm, fruit trees accept upward quite a flake of space. How many tin you lot perhaps establish inward a modest suburban lot? Way to a greater extent than than you lot think. Read on to honor out.

harvests over 100 dragon fruits each year. That’s quite a haul, considering each ane sells for every bit much every bit $6 inward the supermarket!

grafted onto it. All I could produce was milkshake my caput inward awe.

grafted onto it), at that topographic point were potted seedlings everywhere. These are avocados inward the front, amongst loquats inward the back.

m happy to study that I postulate keep a novel gardening friend Garden visit: succulents—and rare fruit trees

Look at the pots inward the photograph below! I’ve never seen to a greater extent than fashionable contains for fruit trees (in this illustration mangos)! It turns out these containers are Air-Pots®. You position them together yourself from rolls of perforated material.

m happy to study that I postulate keep a novel gardening friend Garden visit: succulents—and rare fruit trees

Proof that sometime crutches tin postulate keep a 2nd life:

m happy to study that I postulate keep a novel gardening friend Garden visit: succulents—and rare fruit trees

The side yard that leads to the dorsum yard; fruit trees everywhere:

m happy to study that I postulate keep a novel gardening friend Garden visit: succulents—and rare fruit trees

Speaking to Marta, I realized that at that topographic point is a huge subculture out at that topographic point I was never aware of: growers of rare as well as exotic fruit trees! The collector inward me wants to delve into this novel realm amongst both feet, only I’m doing my best to dull him down. I postulate keep precious piddling infinite left inward my garden every bit it is. But that doesn’t hateful I can’t add together a affair or two…

NOTE: Marta shares the results of her gardening experiments as well as other observations here.


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