none of these but I place a apple seed in my Nan's garden when I was about 3 and is grown into a full blooming tree over 30 years. my nan bloody hates it but it's still in her garden lol

I'm no Titchmarsh mate, but don't think any of those trees grow in our country. :laughing:

Next door have a plantation of top grade ganja.....

​Yeah well, my garden is just so full of bananas and coconuts, I never really thought to try olives or lemons :sunglasses:

RuudBullit I liked your 'post' and had a laugh as well.... you can always get a laugh on some of these forums
due to some of the hilarious 'advice' given which is somewhat of a wind up but some mean well I suppose so it might be better to let them off & not reply with a rebuke!
I am interested to know ----is your Banana outside ? Yorkshire seems a bit too far north for that species to even survive as the designation sates that the banana is at least sub tropical ?
If it's in a tub & brought inside at the appropriate time This may be why it survives? If it is indeed outside does it fruit because a friend of mine in Crete has bananas and they are kept out of the wind there otherwise they will not fruit and in a cooll year they do not do very well at all. It's 50 deg F minimum in winter there (Drapanias).

I have a citrus tree outside in a very shelterd place but it is almost 30 years old.( see it on ) uk citrus home nottingham citrus. It bears fruit every year but the fruit is not nice to eat and even taints marmalade with an off flavor. Its a seedling that came from California and is used there for rootstocks only in cooler citrus climes. It has coped with minus 15C and that is the truth but because it is a seedling tree it could be unique in the world of citrus........

I mustn't keep rattling on as I only came on this site to find out when the Kumquat trees will be in Lidl again.
The Lemon and Calamondin I bought have got flowers on both and two lemons will be eaten soon.
The Kumquat is on it's last legs as it got too hot in my conservatory my lad was supposed to be 'looking after it' but he didn't notice the leaves were wilted & when I got home I thought -typical if you don't do things yourself.............. The clanger I dropped was it should have been outside in a sheltered spot & I won't make the same mistake with the next one if I can buy one that is but it'll probably be April time next year.... I must be patient...... Best of luck with the bananas !

If you plant one in the ground, dig a large hole, and use 4 paving slabs on the insides of the hole to make a 'pot'. Fill the bottom quarter with pebbles and then the rest with soil. Easy as that.

Is this the current weeks offer or left over stock from previous weeks?

You should keep a fig in a pot against a south facing wall in the summer. Only gradually increase pot size each year. ( keep it quite restricted and it will fruit). If planted in the ground you cannot shelter it in the winter and it will concentrate on root growth rather than fruiting.

hot deal for the price though :smiley:

I have heard of apple, pears or plum trees yielding fruit.

but will these fruits realistically grow in the UK climate?? imo figs and lemons need heat

​I have a couple of olea europa in my garden in Yorkshire. I also have a banana tree (musa basjoo). You're right about one thing, you're no Titchmarsh :wink:

If I had fruit trees I'd live off fruit.

I have a lovely lemon tree thats about 2' high that over winters in the greenhouse and comes out summertime.
Yields half a dozen lemons throughout the year.
Olive tree stays outdoors but never seem to get fruit to the ripe stage.

B&M.

My daughter has a 15ft high fig tree in London which provides loads of fruit

cold - rubbish small plants, some probably even dead, unsuitable for growing here in most cases, probably too late to be planting anyway, perfect way to not start gardening. I picked up apple trees (actual 6ft trees) from aldi for this price a couple months ago, far better deal than this and they are actually growing.

Word of advice, if you buy a fig tree do your research on how to plant it. The one in my garden sprouted limbs at ground level, all over the damned place.

the olives were a great income for the farmers in poor countries

Next door have a plantation of top grade ganja.....

If you like the variety and want a dwarf patio version, go dig up a couple of sloe seedings and get them established in pots. Next spring you can graft on a sion from the tree that is now in your garden.

fig and olive are OK for our climate, but the orange and lemon trees will need some sort of protection from the cold.

Ah, mussed the olive. If it's olea europea then it's good down to -10 but don't expect to be making your own oil.

Fig, ok depending on variety but even in a conservatory the citrus won't do well. And you'll hate how much money you spend keeping it alive and healthy.
Read pretty much anything by William Robinson on horticulture it will help guide you future purchases.

The fig will be suitable for containers - they aren't typically grafted onto root stock

I'm no Titchmarsh mate, but don't think any of those trees grow in our country. :laughing:

Aldi were selling some orange trees a few month back and they had a label on which said fruits are not for consumption

If these are the same ones they have been selling for a few weeks , they are normal trees (ie not on dwarfing rootstock) . They therefore need to be planted into your garden and are not suitable for Patio containers . Check the full grown height on the package , if less than 1.5 metres it'll be fine for a large patio pot - if more it will need to go in the garden (and risk our winter temperatures ) .

Made the same mistake myself , bought s plum tree from LIdl (intended for the patio ),only on getting it home did I see that the height would be 3-4 metres when full grown . My mistake ,it wasn't being sold as a patio tree . In the garden now -maybe plums next year :smiley: - If the birds don't get them first :disappointed: .

Note you will only get fruit from these trees after at least 2 years ( if then) so don't expect any this summer .

​Yeah well, my garden is just so full of bananas and coconuts, I never really thought to try olives or lemons :sunglasses:

none of these but I place a apple seed in my Nan's garden when I was about 3 and is grown into a full blooming tree over 30 years. my nan bloody hates it but it's still in her garden lol

Yep, we've got a mini orange tree that's been producing fruit for years. outside when it's warm, inside when it isn't and you'll be fine. fig and lemon trees are happy with similar treatment too.

I've got a large fig tree in my garden, lots of figs all summer.

Think with lemon tree's, you can put them outside during the summer months. But when the temp is below 10c then you must bring them inside for the rest of the year.

I have grown lemons from pips indoors