Le Georgiche garden center in Italy 🇮🇹- Unusual fruit section.
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- This garden center also has a large citrus selection with wonderful healthy specimens .. but due to my phone running out of battery I was unable to record it. Fortunately I'll be visiting a couple of excellent, specialist citrus nursuries the next day.
Amazing collection of rare plants
Yes, I really enjoyed my time exploring their nursery.
Lots of decent tropicals in that garden centre. Some names I haven’t heard of before.
A lot of fun to walk around and explore.
Exciting. My natal plum was destroyed in December 2022. The seedlings replacements I have will take years to reach fruiting size in our weather.
They had quite a few nice-looking specimens of Carissa macrocarpa there. It's a good species for keeping small and pruned, while still having fruit and flowers.
@@MoebiusUK Well if you have room, I will have one
Lots of nice variety there
Thanks, I really enjoyed walking round. Unfortunately I think I came at the end of the season so many plants had been sold or were looking a little shabby,
Still a lot of fun for me though.
Lol Dom you need to brush up on your Latin names so you don't miss anything exciting 😉. The first syzygium was the Jambolan or Jamun, the 2nd Syzygium jambos is a rose apple the same as the established specimen I have. I definitely would have had one of those chocolate pudding plants if I'd known they were that large.
Eugenia aggregata is cherry of the Rio Grande.
Yes. Too be honest Brett, my brain wasn't firing on all cylinders while I was there. the drive does frazzle me a bit.
Yeah, kicking myself I didn't pick up a couple more of the Chocolate Pudding plants. Those specimens were better that the ones I have at home ... Also, less than half the price of the French nursery.probably should have grabbed a couple of Wooly Sapote too
Carruba is Carob. They're healthy plants, too
They seemed in good condition .. Personally, without a greenhouse it seems a bit too much like hardwork owning one though, especially in the UK.
Oh those are some nice black sapote ! If you have some room in your car and pass by Paris I'd be interested if you can drop it off :)
I can give you a lucuma and a snake fruit seedlings for the service ;)
@@pierreboyer9277 I'm in a different region of Italy from that nursery now.
They were excellent Black Sapote plants. I just wish they had some grafted named-varieties.
@@MoebiusUK Oh it was seedlings, I missed that.
Those Chocolate Pudding Fruit trees are beautiful. Are they grafted or airlayered?
Don't think they're grafted but the specimen I bought last year has flowerbuds on ... and these specimens are bigger.
Maybe airlayer ... but that would require a lot of full size trees to provide all the marcots.
tbh, I have no idea.
'El Bumpo' is meant to be a very good variety of Cherimoya.
I reckon a grafted Cherimoya might fruit in the UK, in a good year. If I had a lot more space, I would surely try.
Another great selection of plants there. Although a few of their specimens looked a little bit neglected. Did you manage to source everything you wanted?
Can't wait to see the specialist citrus nurseries 👍
Yeah probably just the stragglers left there currently. I hope to make it to Italy 🇮🇹 next year or 2026.
Yes, this exotic fruit section is actually their most neglected area. Their citrus section is 10x better but my phone ran out of battery. I did find a few irresistible citrus specimens ... even though I'm going to better citrus nurseries tomorrow.
This nursery was where I bought my White Sapote last year and it was covered in scale insects when I got it. They seemed to only have one McDill this time. Fortunately the first nursery I went to had a few.
@@VirginiaFruitGrower Yeah, you are probably right with it being the end of summer. I've still never been to Italy, I'll have to go one day.
Eugenia reinwardtiana is Cedar Bay Cherry
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Those at 4:58 were carob bean trees.
Ahhh ,Thanks. I've never come across it's botanical name ... I thought those pods looked similar to dried icecream bean or maybe vanilla pods, so was thrown off.