AusBonsai

I have been buying hard to get fruit trees from Daleys for a few years now. They've just released their new Spring catalogue, if anyone is interested.

https://www.daleysfruit.com.au/Plant-List.php

No affiliation, just a happy customer...

Thanks MelB,

I was kind of hoping to find the Australian finger lime (Citrus australasica) - not for bonsai - rather because I like cooking and the little finger limes seem really interesting. I am not sure they grow this far south but I would have given it a crack. Alas - not on this list - so excuse to buy ... gone. Phew.

I bought one at a local bunnyworld a couple of years ago, Mark, and I always considered it would be sub-tropical, but it seems not!
https://www.sgaonline.org.au/finger-limes/

not pushing you or anything, but Diggers sells them in Melb too... Although it's currently out of stock...
https://www.diggers.com.au/Search-Resul ... inger+lime

I've had a couple of finger limes fruit in Canberra, so Melbourne should be OK. They're not fast growers here, and prickly/nasty/vicious as you can get, and the fruit grows at the end of the season's growth, it seems to me, so constant pruning/pinching might make things difficult. Could be a candidate for ground- or colander-growing. Should be way more of them.

Gavin

They certainly are nasty thorny little things, but agree, good to have. I've had mine 2 years and got fruit this past month...(what the possums left, anyway..) It's still only 50cm tall, but bushy...

Prickly, nasty, vicious, slow, bushy .... now tell me what you really think!

I’d better get one or two. Just for garden - probably not Bonsai ... although I can imagine the small native fruit being quite attractive hanging on a Bonsai.


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I quite like stroppy trees with a mind of their own.... And fruit are gems. And native citrus are entire world of their own - I'd love to see an old gnarled trunk in bonsai. As I said, not enough of them.

Gavin

Fairly readily available at Gardenworld in Braeside usually with a few different varieties

Just think, if you plant it in the garden you'll invite the fairy wrens and other tiny birds to stay, cos they love those thorny trees, gives them a bit of a feeling of safety in amongst the prickles.

Ok Mel and Gavin, I’m sold. Tim - thanks for the GardenWorld tip - it’s reasonably close by. Cheers, all.


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