Shade Gardening: Who is beginning to take serious looks at the catalogs now?, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
I love mangoes, we had milk icecream lollies on a stick full of tropical fruits, mango, pawpaw, pineapple, passiofruit. Much of the fruits produced in warmer climates are used in the sweet goodies, we also had Fruchocs, a dried apricot covered in chocolate. Chocolate bars were always full of the available fruits. Cherry Ripe, cherries and coconut covered in dark chocolate is out of this world! Here it is all sweet, sugary and unhealthy, I do miss those goodies! I am trying to grow a Mango from a seed I got from a bought mango, tried once before, I had 2 grow a few inches then they got black sooty mould. This time I am trying a different method, it has split and showing a root, I've split the top curved side open a little, and the root coming from the other side is in water, I know it is not warm enough here but that doesn't stop me trying! I've got citrus seedlings too, more I just bought from California, tradewindsfruit, I think they must get their seed from a botanical gardens there, I found one in California that had a rare citrus from Japan and i got the seed! Supposed to be quite hardy too! I think it was C. tachibana, I got 7 more varieties to try, many quite hardy. I have a plant grown from a seed out of a supermarket bought Mandora from Uruguay, I suspect a Mandarin x orange, sown in August 1997, it is now nearly hitting the greenhouse roof, it has only ever been in a cold greenhouse and suffered prolonged frost to 16F as a baby. It had 2 flowers on last year, 1 made a tiny fruit, but of course dropped off, but still! doing well.

(sorry for the hijack!) all good stuff.....