How does your gothic garden grow?

Yes they are edible to humans! The skin and flesh are a little bitter, but the juice is quite sweet.

iHauntTheSepulchre wrote:

Yes they are edible to humans! The skin and flesh are a little bitter, but the juice is quite sweet.

Wow, I might consider getting a small plant then. The berries are very pretty, although it may be hard for me to get hold of one..I used to have all sorts of trees in my old house's garden with edible fruits..

We had an apple, plum, pear, peach and citrus fruit tree (Hard to explain that one. We bought it from the Eden Project and the top half produced lemons whilst the bottom half produced small tangerine type fruits. I think it's called branch grafting or something like that anyway). We also had tons of strawberries..

These days, we only have olive, pear, citrus and peach trees, though I think there's some wild strawberries/raspberries and gooseberries in the garden too. The pear tree was here when we moved into this house and is absolutely huge. We end up with tons of wasps though, seeing as they enjoy the pears when they fall to the floor. Despite that, it's nice around Autumn time, as we usually have mass pear-picking days and deliver a bag of pears to each of our neighbours. The guy who lived here before he died of old age used to do the same, so we felt it was only right to carry on the tradition.

That and we can't eat all of the pears anyway. Too many!

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If i could do the garden thing i might consider it, but i do have a happy cactus i'm in a boarding house at the moment so the back garden isn't mine to mess with.

But my cactus is happy which is all that counts, he doesn't need much looking after haha.

I used to have so many house plants, but I just get lazy walking around with a watering can. I forget to water them, or the cat kills them. Too much bother. My 10-year-old dracena just croaked, so I am looking for a new house plant. I figure I should be able to keep one plant alive at least.

Envy wrote:

iHauntTheSepulchre wrote:

Yes they are edible to humans! The skin and flesh are a little bitter, but the juice is quite sweet.

Wow, I might consider getting a small plant then. The berries are very pretty, although it may be hard for me to get hold of one..I used to have all sorts of trees in my old house's garden with edible fruits..

The only thing you need to note about the lillipilli is that the seeds are poisonous so you need to be careful when you bite into one, after the first bite, you just throw away the seed. Small bushes are great, we have a large tree but my grandmother has a lillipilli hedge, constant pruning and shaping keeps it quite manageable and does not affect the quality (or size) of the fruits.

scootiebee wrote:

I used to have so many house plants, but I just get lazy walking around with a watering can. I forget to water them, or the cat kills them. Too much bother. My 10-year-old dracena just croaked, so I am looking for a new house plant. I figure I should be able to keep one plant alive at least.

I know. I have the same problem. I can only keep orchids alive. :silly: I was in such a rush to get to my bus that I didn't take the one orchid I have in Zagreb with me and unfortunately I don't think it will survive until I return.