Feijoa = Pineapple Guava

Feijoa, also known as Pineapple Guava and Guavasteen, are one of my favorite fruits. It is great that here in Napa we can grow this guava without protecting it from winter frosts like we have to do with the other guavas. The petals are edible and the fruit is just now starting to drop. It is ripe and is collected from the ground as soon as you can. The texture of the flesh is like a pear but the taste is a cross of a pineapple, a banana and a strawberry. The skin can be eaten or not. It has been an important commercial crop in Australia and New Zealand for 100 years but is hardly known in the states. It is origianally from Central and South America. I love Feijoa.

Big Trees leaving for their real home

These 20 foot tall oak trees are leaving the farm they grew up at from an acorn for their forever home. They are carefully laid down on a long trailer, tied down and covered for a trip on the roads. Once the tree is near it's hole the fabric container is cut off and the tree is placed into the ground. Watering is very important until the tree is firmly grown in and a drip system is usually preferred. These evergreen trees will provide shade and privacy as soon as they are in the ground and more each year as they grow.

Cork Oak - a Lovely Tree

Cork Oak trees are medium sized evergreen trees that are the source of cork for wine corks and all the other cork products like bulletin boards and flooring. The bark is thick and interesting. It will grow easily. We have trees from a few feet tall to 20 feet tall.

Coast Live Oak or CLO is a beatiful evergreeen tree

The Coast live Oak, Quercus agrifolia is the easy to grow native evergreen tree for much of California. It has dark glossy leaves and can have various different shapes. These are 5 foot diameter containers. We grew these from choice acorns started 12 years ago and this is the time of year to collect more acorns for next year's new little seedlings. Also known as Quercus agrifolia, these CLOs grow in most parts of the SF bay area and are fairly fast growing. They do very well here in Napa.

Fig Trees - Grow easily - Prune to keep smaller

This is a good year for figs. Everyone I talked to about them said their trees did well this year too. Some varieties produce figs twice a year. Figs can be green or purple and the inside can be white to deep dark red-purple. Figs make fruit when the tree is still quite young and fig trees have few problems. Train a tree with lower branches so you can prune and pick fruit easier reducing the need to work on a ladder. Extra fruits can be dried to enjoy later on and many people like to barbeque them. I like to add them fresh or dried to salads. It is hard to buy fresh figs in a store because they are so soft and can over-ripen too fast and they can be kept large or small to fit your space.