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Great specimen tree or ideal as a shade tree that will add interest to any garden. It's very cold hardy as its deciduous, however late frost can damage new shoots. Better to be grown in a warm sheltered position. Full sun.

The swollen stalks can be eaten fresh or added to dishes where you use dried fruit. They can be stored for 2 months where the flavour improves. The swollen stalks taste like crunchy raisins. Stalks can be hand picked from the tree or left to naturally drop.

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aka Medlar

Here's something a little bit different for all you connoisseurs. Unusual ornamental fruiting tree with pretty single white flowers in spring followed by distinctive brown fruit with rough textured skin. The fruit is olive green to start, edible when it turns reddish brown. Deciduous.
Suitable for warmer areas including Auckland/Northland

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aka Weeping Mulberry

Desirable, weeping form of the highly ornamental Mulberry tree. The glossy large heart shaped leaves always look fresh. Small edible fruits appear in spring and are loved by birds! Berries are red, almost black when ripe. Give this special tree the space to spread its lovely pendulous branch formation. Deciduous.

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aka Weeping Mulberry

Desirable, weeping form of the highly ornamental Mulberry tree. The glossy large heart shaped leaves always look fresh. Small edible fruits appear in spring and are loved by birds! Berries are red, almost black when ripe. Give this special tree the space to spread its lovely pendulous branch formation. Deciduous.

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aka Mulberry

Dark red/black fruit, similar to boysenberry but about 15mm long. Fruit from 2 years on year old wood. Fast growing deciduous tree with large oval serrated leaves. Flowers in spring, Harvest in summer. Easy to grow in a sunny position. Self fertile. Deciduous.

Flowers appear early spring. Small yellow/green pendulous catkins separate male and female. The male is more slender than the female. Both appear on the one tree. Self fertile and wind pollination. More than one tree will increase fruit set. Harvest - spread a cloth beneath the tree and let fruit drop onto it. Harvest over 3 months, daily collection is best.

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aka Black Mulberry

Black Mulberry has sweet, intense, blackish red fruit approx 2cm long which mature in late spring/early summer. Quite juicy. Good flavour. Warning the birds love them! Lovely heart shaped, glossy green leaves dress the well shaped ornamental tree. Quite easy to grow in a sunny position. Deciduous.

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aka Mulberry

A beautiful ornamental fruit tree with medium sized purple/plum coloured sweet mulberries. Easy to grow. Deciduous.

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Quick growing round headed small tree with large, deeply lobed, evergreen leaves. Bright yellow, delicious fruit about the size of a small apple are produced, usually within 2 years. Harvest in late winter, early spring when fruit is yellow and softened.

Recommended to plant 2 or more for a successful cross pollination. Male and Female flowers on 1 plant but might not be present simultaneously.

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aka Chilean Guava Syn Ugni Molinae

AKA as Chilean Guava or NZ Cranberry. A reliable little shrub with tight small leaves in an attractive bronze green shade. Little white flowers in spring are followed by fragrant edible berries. Easy to grow, clips well so can be used for topiary or hedging. Evergreen.

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aka Chilean Guava or Cranberry

Attractive bronze-green foliage all year round, fragrant pretty white flowers in spring and edible reddish-purple berries in summer. The berries are often referred to as 'Cranberries' but they are not the true Cranberry. Nonetheless they have a nice flavour and are pleasant to eat.

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aka Oak Leaved Papaya

Fresh eating papaya has a sweet, musky, zesty aroma. Full of goodness. Tree has a spreading form with a leaf similar in shape to oak leaves. Prune to maintain shape and height. Fruits in April/May. It is recommended to plant two Papaya either the same, or different varieties for cross pollination. Sub Tropical. Deciduous.

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aka Passionfruit

The Passionfruit vine has attractive mauve and white flowers that turn into yummy round dark purple fruit at the end of summer. To do well your vine must be in a sunny, sheltered, well-drained position. Though self-fertile will often do better when 2 are planted together. Evergreen.

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aka Passionfruit Gold

Healthy lush green foliage covers up to 8 square metres a year. Its super large golden soft-skinned fruit with juicy aromatic pulp are generally sweeter than the black passionfruit. Suitable for trellis, fence or pergola in most soil types. Semi Deciduous.

Hardy vigorous, evergreen vine for warm, sunny positions. Regular water and fertilizer will enhance vigor and crop size.

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aka Passionfruit Red

Healthy lush green foliage covers up to 8 square metres a year. Its super large red soft-skinned fruit with juicy aromatic pulp are generally sweeter than the black passionfruit. Suitable for trellis, fence or pergola in most soil types. Semi Deciduous.

Hardy vigorous, evergreen vine for warm, sunny positions. Regular water and fertiliser will enhance vigour and crop size.

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aka Sweet cucumber

The medium to large egg-shape fruit turns yellow with purple stripes when ripe. The pepino has a taste that is similar to a cucumber, cantaloupe, and a honeydew melon. A small vigorous bush that fruits heavily from December until the first frost. Excellent container plant. Self fertile.

Because pepino flesh is sweet and tasty, it provides a welcome addition to many desserts, side dishes, and health-conscious meals. Additionally, it is an interesting addition to many party fruit platters because of its unique, dual colour skin.

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aka Sweet cucumber

Purple elongated fruit approx 12cm long when mature. The fruit is juicy with a mild flavour and crisp texture. Ideal for container grown. A small vigorous bush, that flowers during spring and summer and fruits heavily from December until the first frost. Perennial. Self fertile. Provisional PVR

Pepino Ruby Tm. Produced and marketed by Tharfield Nursery Ltd in association with Plant

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Known as the "Fruit of the Gods". An exceptional ornamental tree because of the deep orange leaves. But wait, there's more, you can also eat the delicious non astringent fruit. "Fuyu" is known for being very sweet and keeping well. Fruits in 4 - 5 years. Non-astringent variety. Diospyros Kaki rootstock.

Fruit ripen May-June; birds love this fruit, it's best to pick from the tree when just ripe; use secateurs. Persimmons don't require fertiliser when first planted. Grows well in warmer climates.