Container plant ~Pineapple Guava

[bergere]

Pineapple Guava
Feijoa sellowiana
Hardy to 5°F, this exotic and beautiful evergreen shrub should be planted more widely in our region. Pineapple Guava leaves are dark glossy green with a whitish-silver cast underneath. The flowers are very striking, crimson red in the center with bright pink petals. As an evergreen, it adds its beauty to your landscape year around. After appreciating Pineapple Guava's beauty, you can feast on its fruit (and its flowers!). Those bright pink petals are very sweet with a hint of cotton candy. Ripening in early November in our region, the dark green, flavorful fruit has the flavors of mint and pineapple.While Pineapple Guava can grow to 6-8 ft. in height and as wide, even taller in very warm areas, it grows slowly and is easy to keep small if desired. Pineapple Guava is well suited to container growing and makes a beautiful patio plant, needing protection in only the coldest winters.

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I just Googled Feijoa sellowiana and it's really neat! They flowers are beautiful and the fruit is pretty.

/VM

[Kathy]

Bergere, you're doing it already-giving me ideas for my new gardening zone!!

I'll be right at 7 b/8a so there's a whole lot more I can plant! ;D

I've never tasted pineapple guava but I like the kind you get in the stores. ;D

[bergere]

How about Roses Kathy? The only place I could grow prize winning roses well enough to take to the fairs was San Diego!

[Kathy]

I want a purple rose and a true blue rose!
I found some beautiful climbing roses that I'm going to put over the pergola. I want to make that will be the entrance to the garden with seats on both sides.
One side will have a red climbing Blaze and the other a yellow climber called Golden Showers-both are everlooming! ;D

Oh and I found out I can have Butterfly Bushes too-they're adaptable to zone 9!!

Butterfly weed is indigenous in the area so I've got a start!

I do have a question maybe you can answer. In my garden catalogs, all of the nut trees have a ban on being shipped to TX. Why would that be? I guess I'll have to find a local nursery.
I know they grow in that area since pecans are one of the main ag crops in Pecos County.

[bergere]

There has been a blight in many states but I am not sure that is the reason. We are having sudden Oak death here which affects not only Oaks but other trees and bushes too.

Normally if a state does not allow a plant to be shipped, it is because it is big business there already.
Like here,, Can't bring in Filberts from out of state.
Filberts are still a fairly big business here,, and the growers do not want competition.

There was one place in New England that had a blue rose. I just do not remember the name of the place right now. Do know at the time there was a longgg waiting list for it.