On 9 Jan 2005 19:59:32 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:

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Pam Moore wrote:
I've just read through the thread on Feijoa Sellowiana.
I grew some from seed about 3 or 4 years ago after Bob
Flowerdew recommended it on GQT.
He gave it the alternative name of "cruel plant" saying that the
flowers trap insects overnight and release them next morning in order
to ensure pollination.

Are you sure? The flowers don't look as if they could do that.
That's what Bob F said on GQT. I sent for the seeds from Chiltern.

I have only once seen it growing, with one fruit, in a Yellow Book
garden in Clevedon by the Bristol Channel. It was trained over a
pergola.
Mine is in a wall pot, and is just allowed to trail down, but has
never flowered. It now has about 6 trailing stems. I shall pot it
and train it up a fence this year and maybe then it might flower for
me.

That doesn't sound right. It is an upright tree or shrub.
So I wonder what I am growing which is trailing and was grown from
the seeds I got from Chiltern!!!


Pam in Bristol