The Fruit Variety!

[Michael Alexander]

What an amazing place this was once, today I was looking out the bedroom window and was looking at the various types of trees blowing in the breeze, when i was informed that the tree in our garden was a paw paw tree, which got me to thinking of the wide range of fruit tree;s that have been grown in Oranjemund, some of which are still around today.. here is my list, if I missed any add on...

1) Avo
2) paw Paw
3) Mulberry
4) Grape
5) Lemon
6) Bananna
7) Orange
8) Louqouat
9) Fig
10) Guave
...... all from the desert...

[barb (Fry)]

Komquat (sp) tree in 1st ave
are olives fruit ?
we had strawberries, gooseberries and passion fruits in our back garden - not trees I know.

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Pomagranate (sp) we had at E5/11

[barb (Fry)]

Yea that's what I meant the thing with all the juicy red pips inside.

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Thats them. I've never eaten one other than in O'mund and always associate them with that time.

[Barbara Eia (Brownless)]

We had a pomagranite tree in Oranjemund they sell them here but they are very expensive

[Michael Alexander]

I say fruit, but what I was getting at was the variety of fruit, veg, berries etc that were/are grown in this spot of the Namib desert, people always said of Oranjemund, just plant it, water it and the sun will do the rest.....

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

My father GREW the Pomagranate tree!

[barb (Fry)]

Hey, yea I know what you mean the oasis effect during that time - condidering it was a desert, remember it's close to a river, that always makes a differance

Here in UK you plant and watch it grow, no watering needed, as for the sun, what's that.

[Michael Alexander]

Big shiny bright illuminated disc above all that white stuff above your house roof.....   :emot19:

[barb (Fry)]

ah the thing that comes out at night.

[georg ruf jr.]

peach
apricot
loquat
nartjie


As Barbara already said: Very expensive in Europe and nowhere near ripe, unless you pay even more...

[Paula Gottsch (Willson)]

Banana tree

and I tink you lot are all fruity!!    :emot19: beautiful

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

 

You all forgetting about the green some oke's planted behind their pondoks and the fence!

(The preacher from the NG Church and myself once planted a few of those pips in the flower bedding at the steps as you enter the police station.  We loved to see our little boompies start to grow, but Big Dirk was to clever for us  -  they got to about 5cm high, when he spotted them for what they were and plucked them out - roots 'n all!)  Damn - we could have made a good profit, come to think of it now.....

[Michael Alexander]

Wow! Aunty sounds like a rof type in her youth!