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• Retired farmer creates new fruit
• A cross between a plum and peach
• Fruit said to be 'very tasty'

IS it a plum? Is it a peach? It's probably a pleach as it's a morph of the two tasty stone fruits.

Whatever it is, it's a love child of the two, accidentally created by a retired NSW farmer.

Bruce Davis from Mudgee in the state's central west couldn't believe it when he discovered he had grown a cross between a peach and a plum.

The fruit looks like a peach from the outside, but resembles a red plum when bitten into.

The unusual fruit is believed to be the first of its kind ever grown in the state.

Mr Davis grows peach and blood plum trees alongside each other and believes the peach/plum tree may have grown from compost that contained plum seeds.

"It's a really interesting piece of fruit and it's very tasty,'' Mr Davis said.

A cross between a plum and an apricot, known as a pluot, has been grown in the past, but a peach and a plum is a new combination for NSW, Primary Industries Minister Steve Whan said.

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Corymbia (Eucalyptus) ficifolia Red flowering, Gum tree is a true beauty.

Reg and I stayed overnight in Narre Warren at our youngest daughter, Carla’s home.

I went for a walk at 6am, through the green belt between the rows of suburban houses and then into the court to stand and enjoy the garden I had created, at my former home.  I have always loved designing gardens and this one is now five years old, the structure and plantings are as I originally planned and planted, the trees are 18 months more advanced and even more beautuful than when I left this garden, to live and travel permanently in the country.

There are two grafted Eucalyptus ficifolia, (flowering gums) in the nature strip, looking beautiful. Red-flowering gum is a prominent tree in the sand belts in the southern Melbourne suburbs. Because of its tidy, rounded shape, elegant foliage, and showy summer flowering, C. ficifolia is a breathtakingly beautiful sight in full bloom in sunshine. This tree grows at its best, when grafted onto sturdy rootstock ensuring a stronger growing tree and a more reliable colour than if the tree is grown from seed. 

On our drive home from Narre Warren to Northern Victoria, we stopped and walked again around the town of Yea and it was here I took these photos of a young, spectacular, red flowering gum.


 

My cottage garden brings me delight in flowers that bloom all year and none work harder to produce continual show of colour in the garden that my Hemerocallis or day lily as they are know because each flower only lasts one day.  The flowers rise above attractive green strappy leaves and they flower profusely for months.   With early, mid and late season varieties, I have colour from my day lilies in the garden for all but the coldest months.

My dayflies are all the more special to me because they are a ‘friendship garden’, plant J, I got all of mine from my beautiful friend, Garden Gems.

Plant profile, Hemerocallis  Daylily