Loquat trees

lostinrates

What chance for this in the south central region outside? I don't expect fruit, (though it would be nice) but saw one about six feet tall today at a bargain price and feel VERY tempted as they are delivering a katsura and a foxglove tree next week, so i could nip back and pay for it and add it to the delivery....

Tinks32

I think you should be safe:) Are you planning on planting it in a sheltered place?

lostinrates

I think you and i mit get on well Tinks

Sheltered. Hmm. I want to say yes, but, honestly, not so much. Our garden is a square, protected on the east by the house, much of the north by a house and some farm buildings about thirty feet away, but enough for the wind to dip back over the rooves in to the garden, and to the south by more farm buildings. Trickiest is the west/north west from where windwhips in and is sometimes sheltered (through late summer and early winter, but loses this shelter as winter progresses ( its bordered by an open sided straw barn, and as the straw gets used the light incases, buit the wind does too.

We removed over seventy leylandi from this length of garden when we moved in, and are looking to replace with broadleaves, both deciduous and ever green broad leaves, which will give each other and the planting in front of them shelter in time.

We are in the middle of a very large, flat valley, hills close enough to get most of the rain that falls, but not close enough to glance the wind off us!

Short answer.....not really.

Tinks32

Ahh thank you, I think I may have already got somebody's heckles up:D

I think you are right, it may be hit and miss they do need a warm sheltered spot. Have you not got a nice sunny patio for it to live in a pot? Or maybe in your front garden (if you are lucky you might have a south facing one)? If not look after it until xmas and you can give it to a loved one who has a perfect place in their garden for it.
have you considered a Crinodendron tree? They are so more hardy than anyone ever thought and when they are in flower it looks like it has chillies growing on it! A member of my family has one growing in the middle of their lawn in Poole right by the sea on an exposed hill and it simply adores it there.

lostinrates

Crazy thing is in summer its HOT here, or usually is, the main stretch we are looking for gets very little shade.


I could keep it in a tub in the sheltered courtyard, which gets hot.....hmm, thatbis actually worth thinking about.

I won't get it now, but i am back to that nursey in a few weeks, if its still there they might be delivering it to me in the future.