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Loquats for wildlife?
I'm wildscaping my San Antonio/Hill Country backyard with native,
critter-friendly plants. A neighbor's loquat has escaped and volunteered, and is now about two feet tall. I'm wondering: 1) What Texas wildlife will eat loquat: sqirrels, possum and/or racoon? 2) I hear the bees love loquat, but do the butterflies? 3) These are growing in the shade: do they need to be in the sun to flower and fruit? Many thanks, Bill |
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Loquats for wildlife?
"Bill McKee" wrote in message ... I'm wildscaping my San Antonio/Hill Country backyard with native, critter-friendly plants. A neighbor's loquat has escaped and volunteered, and is now about two feet tall. I'm wondering: 1) What Texas wildlife will eat loquat: sqirrels, possum and/or racoon? 2) I hear the bees love loquat, but do the butterflies? 3) These are growing in the shade: do they need to be in the sun to flower and fruit? Many thanks, Bill My loquat has never been bothered by any furry four-leggers. It tends to bloom when the butterflies aren't around (like December), but the bees like the blossoms. It grows in full sun and the volunteers in the understory don't do well at all. Only once in ten years has it produced fruit, fleshy enough to bother eating. Hope this helps. |
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Loquats for wildlife?
"Bill McKee" wrote in message ... | I'm wildscaping my San Antonio/Hill Country backyard with native, | critter-friendly plants. A neighbor's loquat has escaped and | volunteered, and is now about two feet tall. I'm wondering: | 1) What Texas wildlife will eat loquat: sqirrels, possum and/or | racoon? | 2) I hear the bees love loquat, but do the butterflies? | 3) These are growing in the shade: do they need to be in the sun to | flower and fruit? | Many thanks, | Bill Raccoons and possums will eat loquats; so will various birds. The honeybees do love the flowers, which have quite a strong scent. We have them growing in the shade. Whether or not they produce fruit depends on when and whether there are winter frosts. Some people prune them so that they stay quite low in height. Dropped and partially eaten fruit becomes quite fermented. |
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Loquats for wildlife?
"Bill McKee" wrote in message ... | I'm wildscaping my San Antonio/Hill Country backyard with native, | critter-friendly plants. A neighbor's loquat has escaped and | volunteered, and is now about two feet tall. I'm wondering: | 1) What Texas wildlife will eat loquat: sqirrels, possum and/or | racoon? | 2) I hear the bees love loquat, but do the butterflies? | 3) These are growing in the shade: do they need to be in the sun to | flower and fruit? | Many thanks, | Bill Raccoons and possums will eat loquats; so will various birds. The honeybees do love the flowers, which have quite a strong scent. We have them growing in the shade. Whether or not they produce fruit depends on when and whether there are winter frosts. Some people prune them so that they stay quite low in height. Dropped and partially eaten fruit becomes quite fermented. |
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Loquats for wildlife?
"Bill McKee" wrote in message ... | I'm wildscaping my San Antonio/Hill Country backyard with native, | critter-friendly plants. A neighbor's loquat has escaped and | volunteered, and is now about two feet tall. I'm wondering: | 1) What Texas wildlife will eat loquat: sqirrels, possum and/or | racoon? | 2) I hear the bees love loquat, but do the butterflies? | 3) These are growing in the shade: do they need to be in the sun to | flower and fruit? | Many thanks, | Bill Raccoons and possums will eat loquats; so will various birds. The honeybees do love the flowers, which have quite a strong scent. We have them growing in the shade. Whether or not they produce fruit depends on when and whether there are winter frosts. Some people prune them so that they stay quite low in height. Dropped and partially eaten fruit becomes quite fermented. |
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Loquats for wildlife?
"Bill McKee" wrote in message ... | I'm wildscaping my San Antonio/Hill Country backyard with native, | critter-friendly plants. A neighbor's loquat has escaped and | volunteered, and is now about two feet tall. I'm wondering: | 1) What Texas wildlife will eat loquat: sqirrels, possum and/or | racoon? | 2) I hear the bees love loquat, but do the butterflies? | 3) These are growing in the shade: do they need to be in the sun to | flower and fruit? | Many thanks, | Bill Raccoons and possums will eat loquats; so will various birds. The honeybees do love the flowers, which have quite a strong scent. We have them growing in the shade. Whether or not they produce fruit depends on when and whether there are winter frosts. Some people prune them so that they stay quite low in height. Dropped and partially eaten fruit becomes quite fermented. |
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Loquats for wildlife?
"Bill McKee" wrote in message ... | I'm wildscaping my San Antonio/Hill Country backyard with native, | critter-friendly plants. A neighbor's loquat has escaped and | volunteered, and is now about two feet tall. I'm wondering: | 1) What Texas wildlife will eat loquat: sqirrels, possum and/or | racoon? | 2) I hear the bees love loquat, but do the butterflies? | 3) These are growing in the shade: do they need to be in the sun to | flower and fruit? | Many thanks, | Bill Raccoons and possums will eat loquats; so will various birds. The honeybees do love the flowers, which have quite a strong scent. We have them growing in the shade. Whether or not they produce fruit depends on when and whether there are winter frosts. Some people prune them so that they stay quite low in height. Dropped and partially eaten fruit becomes quite fermented. |
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Loquats for wildlife?
I planted one in my parents' yard many years ago. Over the past 20 years,
it has produced all kinds of beautiful, very edible fruit. Apparently the birds and squirrels like it, because the seeds have been scattered to other parts of the yard, and these plants are producing as well. As long as they look happy in the shade, let them be. Ours are in partial shade and two of them are now over 12 feet tall. "cat daddy" wrote in message ... "Bill McKee" wrote in message ... I'm wildscaping my San Antonio/Hill Country backyard with native, critter-friendly plants. A neighbor's loquat has escaped and volunteered, and is now about two feet tall. I'm wondering: 1) What Texas wildlife will eat loquat: sqirrels, possum and/or racoon? 2) I hear the bees love loquat, but do the butterflies? 3) These are growing in the shade: do they need to be in the sun to flower and fruit? Many thanks, Bill My loquat has never been bothered by any furry four-leggers. It tends to bloom when the butterflies aren't around (like December), but the bees like the blossoms. It grows in full sun and the volunteers in the understory don't do well at all. Only once in ten years has it produced fruit, fleshy enough to bother eating. Hope this helps. |
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Loquats for wildlife?
I planted one in my parents' yard many years ago. Over the past 20 years,
it has produced all kinds of beautiful, very edible fruit. Apparently the birds and squirrels like it, because the seeds have been scattered to other parts of the yard, and these plants are producing as well. As long as they look happy in the shade, let them be. Ours are in partial shade and two of them are now over 12 feet tall. "cat daddy" wrote in message ... "Bill McKee" wrote in message ... I'm wildscaping my San Antonio/Hill Country backyard with native, critter-friendly plants. A neighbor's loquat has escaped and volunteered, and is now about two feet tall. I'm wondering: 1) What Texas wildlife will eat loquat: sqirrels, possum and/or racoon? 2) I hear the bees love loquat, but do the butterflies? 3) These are growing in the shade: do they need to be in the sun to flower and fruit? Many thanks, Bill My loquat has never been bothered by any furry four-leggers. It tends to bloom when the butterflies aren't around (like December), but the bees like the blossoms. It grows in full sun and the volunteers in the understory don't do well at all. Only once in ten years has it produced fruit, fleshy enough to bother eating. Hope this helps. |
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Loquats for wildlife?
I planted one in my parents' yard many years ago. Over the past 20 years,
it has produced all kinds of beautiful, very edible fruit. Apparently the birds and squirrels like it, because the seeds have been scattered to other parts of the yard, and these plants are producing as well. As long as they look happy in the shade, let them be. Ours are in partial shade and two of them are now over 12 feet tall. "cat daddy" wrote in message ... "Bill McKee" wrote in message ... I'm wildscaping my San Antonio/Hill Country backyard with native, critter-friendly plants. A neighbor's loquat has escaped and volunteered, and is now about two feet tall. I'm wondering: 1) What Texas wildlife will eat loquat: sqirrels, possum and/or racoon? 2) I hear the bees love loquat, but do the butterflies? 3) These are growing in the shade: do they need to be in the sun to flower and fruit? Many thanks, Bill My loquat has never been bothered by any furry four-leggers. It tends to bloom when the butterflies aren't around (like December), but the bees like the blossoms. It grows in full sun and the volunteers in the understory don't do well at all. Only once in ten years has it produced fruit, fleshy enough to bother eating. Hope this helps. |
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Loquats for wildlife?
I planted one in my parents' yard many years ago. Over the past 20 years,
it has produced all kinds of beautiful, very edible fruit. Apparently the birds and squirrels like it, because the seeds have been scattered to other parts of the yard, and these plants are producing as well. As long as they look happy in the shade, let them be. Ours are in partial shade and two of them are now over 12 feet tall. "cat daddy" wrote in message ... "Bill McKee" wrote in message ... I'm wildscaping my San Antonio/Hill Country backyard with native, critter-friendly plants. A neighbor's loquat has escaped and volunteered, and is now about two feet tall. I'm wondering: 1) What Texas wildlife will eat loquat: sqirrels, possum and/or racoon? 2) I hear the bees love loquat, but do the butterflies? 3) These are growing in the shade: do they need to be in the sun to flower and fruit? Many thanks, Bill My loquat has never been bothered by any furry four-leggers. It tends to bloom when the butterflies aren't around (like December), but the bees like the blossoms. It grows in full sun and the volunteers in the understory don't do well at all. Only once in ten years has it produced fruit, fleshy enough to bother eating. Hope this helps. |
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Loquats for wildlife?
By the way, my parents live in University Hills, in the 290/183 area, for
reference-sake, and the plants get little to no maintenance. "Elizabeth of the Tudor Tarts" wrote in message ... I planted one in my parents' yard many years ago. Over the past 20 years, it has produced all kinds of beautiful, very edible fruit. Apparently the birds and squirrels like it, because the seeds have been scattered to other parts of the yard, and these plants are producing as well. As long as they look happy in the shade, let them be. Ours are in partial shade and two of them are now over 12 feet tall. "cat daddy" wrote in message ... "Bill McKee" wrote in message ... I'm wildscaping my San Antonio/Hill Country backyard with native, critter-friendly plants. A neighbor's loquat has escaped and volunteered, and is now about two feet tall. I'm wondering: 1) What Texas wildlife will eat loquat: sqirrels, possum and/or racoon? 2) I hear the bees love loquat, but do the butterflies? 3) These are growing in the shade: do they need to be in the sun to flower and fruit? Many thanks, Bill My loquat has never been bothered by any furry four-leggers. It tends to bloom when the butterflies aren't around (like December), but the bees like the blossoms. It grows in full sun and the volunteers in the understory don't do well at all. Only once in ten years has it produced fruit, fleshy enough to bother eating. Hope this helps. |
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Loquats for wildlife?
By the way, my parents live in University Hills, in the 290/183 area, for
reference-sake, and the plants get little to no maintenance. "Elizabeth of the Tudor Tarts" wrote in message ... I planted one in my parents' yard many years ago. Over the past 20 years, it has produced all kinds of beautiful, very edible fruit. Apparently the birds and squirrels like it, because the seeds have been scattered to other parts of the yard, and these plants are producing as well. As long as they look happy in the shade, let them be. Ours are in partial shade and two of them are now over 12 feet tall. "cat daddy" wrote in message ... "Bill McKee" wrote in message ... I'm wildscaping my San Antonio/Hill Country backyard with native, critter-friendly plants. A neighbor's loquat has escaped and volunteered, and is now about two feet tall. I'm wondering: 1) What Texas wildlife will eat loquat: sqirrels, possum and/or racoon? 2) I hear the bees love loquat, but do the butterflies? 3) These are growing in the shade: do they need to be in the sun to flower and fruit? Many thanks, Bill My loquat has never been bothered by any furry four-leggers. It tends to bloom when the butterflies aren't around (like December), but the bees like the blossoms. It grows in full sun and the volunteers in the understory don't do well at all. Only once in ten years has it produced fruit, fleshy enough to bother eating. Hope this helps. |
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Loquats for wildlife?
By the way, my parents live in University Hills, in the 290/183 area, for
reference-sake, and the plants get little to no maintenance. "Elizabeth of the Tudor Tarts" wrote in message ... I planted one in my parents' yard many years ago. Over the past 20 years, it has produced all kinds of beautiful, very edible fruit. Apparently the birds and squirrels like it, because the seeds have been scattered to other parts of the yard, and these plants are producing as well. As long as they look happy in the shade, let them be. Ours are in partial shade and two of them are now over 12 feet tall. "cat daddy" wrote in message ... "Bill McKee" wrote in message ... I'm wildscaping my San Antonio/Hill Country backyard with native, critter-friendly plants. A neighbor's loquat has escaped and volunteered, and is now about two feet tall. I'm wondering: 1) What Texas wildlife will eat loquat: sqirrels, possum and/or racoon? 2) I hear the bees love loquat, but do the butterflies? 3) These are growing in the shade: do they need to be in the sun to flower and fruit? Many thanks, Bill My loquat has never been bothered by any furry four-leggers. It tends to bloom when the butterflies aren't around (like December), but the bees like the blossoms. It grows in full sun and the volunteers in the understory don't do well at all. Only once in ten years has it produced fruit, fleshy enough to bother eating. Hope this helps. |
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Loquats for wildlife?
By the way, my parents live in University Hills, in the 290/183 area, for
reference-sake, and the plants get little to no maintenance. "Elizabeth of the Tudor Tarts" wrote in message ... I planted one in my parents' yard many years ago. Over the past 20 years, it has produced all kinds of beautiful, very edible fruit. Apparently the birds and squirrels like it, because the seeds have been scattered to other parts of the yard, and these plants are producing as well. As long as they look happy in the shade, let them be. Ours are in partial shade and two of them are now over 12 feet tall. "cat daddy" wrote in message ... "Bill McKee" wrote in message ... I'm wildscaping my San Antonio/Hill Country backyard with native, critter-friendly plants. A neighbor's loquat has escaped and volunteered, and is now about two feet tall. I'm wondering: 1) What Texas wildlife will eat loquat: sqirrels, possum and/or racoon? 2) I hear the bees love loquat, but do the butterflies? 3) These are growing in the shade: do they need to be in the sun to flower and fruit? Many thanks, Bill My loquat has never been bothered by any furry four-leggers. It tends to bloom when the butterflies aren't around (like December), but the bees like the blossoms. It grows in full sun and the volunteers in the understory don't do well at all. Only once in ten years has it produced fruit, fleshy enough to bother eating. Hope this helps. |
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