In message , Sacha
writes
My ex-mil grew it in Jersey, in the garden. I don't think it ever set
fruit.

Not even in Jersey? Not much hope for my daughter's in Norfolk, then...

Afraid not, though I will check next time I talk to her. The story
behind this is that she acquired it *many* years ago - probably about
25 - when it was still a little known plant in this country. She and a
friend who was another keen gardener had a friendly rivalry going as to
who had recently found the rarest, most unusual, trickiest etc. plant
and said friend was coming to lunch and mil was pretty sure the Feijoa
would confound her. Instead, when she took her chum into the garden and
said "what do you think of *that*?" the friend said "Oh a Feijoa - how
lovely. Tell me, does it fruit with you?" Collapse of mil! ;-)

))

But just a thought - did she have only one? Might it take two to tango?

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Klara, Gatwick basin