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Winter

Winter Warmers

Planting fruit Trees

fruit tree Grafting

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All about apples!

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Heritage Fruit Tree Nursery.
21 Magazine Road, Wingatui, Mosgiel, Otago
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I was never a fan of grasses... I found them boring.. But these guys are pretty cool. They add texture and year round colour/texture. And they look like hair! Swishing around in the wind and when you walk by. Seed readily too and is very hardy. Coma

Pink flowering Chestnut tree.
Lovely pinkish spring foliage and salmon coloured pink flowers in summer.
#wingatuihomestead #chestnuttree

My double grafted plums are bursting with flower. Very exciting. Hoping for some good weather so the bees can do their work.
One is a Coes Golden Drop grafted with a Wilson's early and Amber jewel. The other is a Coe's with Hawera and Angelina burde

Now is a good time to divide some plants in the garden and take cuttings. Peonies and some bulbs can be gently divided when they just start to surface. Be careful not to disturb too much. Nice to see wee peonies after so long asleep over winter and l

Finally got round to organizing my apples! Shade house tidy up and weed and everything into alphabetical order to make finding and stocktaking easier. A few new varieties added this season. Things are starting to move and bud up which is exciting!

Helping out Gina today at silverstream school in their wee orchard to finish off the rest of the winter pruning.
#wingatuihomestead #winterpruning #fruittrees #schoolorchards

The ground covers are looking good! Here we have purple clover, mondo grass, leptinella, lambs ears and some others. Something for everyone. Leptinella likes shade, lambs ears can tolerate very dry, mondo is pretty versatile and clover is pretty univ

Honeywort - Pride of Gibraltar. Fabulous shade loving plant grown as a half-hardy annual with blue/purple pendulus flowers in spring through to summer. Grey/green foliage for a nice contrast. Seeds in for some of these will be ready soon!
#wingatui

Tall white iris. White with a yellow throat. Great around pond type areas or in borders. Not on the website but if you'd like one/some flick is a message and we can dig to order.
#wingatuihomestead #iris #marginalplants #foodforestgarden

The lovely ligularia. Shade loving perennial with large bronze red and green leaves. I also have ligularia in leopard, variegated and green leaves varieties. Still wee babies but will be on the very website soon! This variety throws up lovely bright

Purple sprouting broccoli is a proven winner. Purple vegetables are very high in anthocyanins which are powerful antioxidants. So good for us too. These are plants grown from seeds dropped from the previous crop. They're absolutely prolific over a ve

I love this time of year .. when everything is starting to emerge from it's slumber.. the lovely hellebores (winter roses) flower over a long period starting in winter and through to spring. They come in lots of different colours and seed readily...

It's seed time! I've been meaning to get to this for a while now and finally today was the day. Tracked down everything needed for early seeds and some heirloom tomatoes and cucurbits for sale locally as well as lots of new and exciting perennials fo

Join us in ocean view for a pruning workshop!
https://facebook.com/events/s/pruning-workshop/738605545704537/
#wingatuihomestead #fruittrees #pruningtrees #workshops

The chickens have done a great job of scratching out all the grass and weeds. Not much work for me to sort now ready for seedlings. Experiment success!
#wingatuihomestead #tunnelhouses #chickens #springiscoming☀️ #foodforestgarden #tomatoes

I feel this is the start of a fun and exciting journey towards southern grown oranges! These are trifoliata seedlings that have just popped up. Trifoliata is capable of withstanding temperatures as low as -15 and snow (according to the interwebs) So

These are frost hardy orange seeds. Apparently down to -8 so I read. I'm trying to develop a frost hardy orange that can be grown down south. The plan is to grow the seeds onto rootstocks then find hardy local varieties to graft onto them. They can a

Never been one to blast my own horn but I am feeling proud of what I've achieved and humbled to have been approached about what I'm doing enough to have an article written about it in the odt. I was contacted through the grapevine by Louise (who wrot

This nashi pear thinks it's spring! Is it yet? Surely not yet?? This year has gone by so fast and spring really feels right around the corner. Spring is one of my favorite times of year. Everything awakening anew from it's winter sleep. What do you l

Pear grafting for 2025 done and dusted!! Good feeling to get it done. Pears can be a little trickier as you need an interstem to graft most varieties into a quince root-stock. I use both doyenne du commice and beurre hardy as my interstems. Some tree