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  1. shiney

    shiney President, Grumpy Old Men's Club Staff Member

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    strongy,
    thanks, I'll try to enjoy myself [​IMG]
    pete, I'll send you some - but don't hold your breathe [​IMG] :D
     
  2. Banana Man

    Banana Man You're Growing On Me ...

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    :D Lots of pics of trees and ferns on your return please ;)
     
  3. Kandy

    Kandy Will be glad to see the sun again soon.....

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    You'll be lucky BM.We are still waiting for the Egyption holiday photo's from fourteen months ago,so don't hold your breath [​IMG] :D :D
     
  4. shiney

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    Hi Kandy, they were very good [​IMG] :D

    I thought I put them up [​IMG] [​IMG]

    Got to get round to it sometime [​IMG]
     
  5. strongylodon

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    Seems like there are quite a few folk going away soon so there should be lots of pics to drool over. [​IMG]
     
  6. Kedi-Gato

    Kedi-Gato Gardener

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    More dates seen in Malta this week -


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    - and some Opuntia with fruit. They make yummy jam / jelly from it.


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  7. daitheplant

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    Kedi, there are enough dates there to fill a calendar. [​IMG] :D
     
  8. Kedi-Gato

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    A good one David, not heard it before.
     
  9. Victoria

    Victoria Lover of Exotic Flora

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    Our Opuntias look like that at the moment, Sis, but I thought they were flower buds not fruits ... [​IMG]

    Also agree ... good one, David. [​IMG]
     
  10. Kedi-Gato

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    I saw these growing in planters out front of the airport in Valletta.


    Natal Plums -

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    The bark of the stem is quite rough-looking -

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  12. Victoria

    Victoria Lover of Exotic Flora

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    I still can't believe I've only got ONE fruit from my myriads of beautiful gardenia-scented flowers.

    They are a sweet cranberry tasting fruit, grown in warm conditions.

    I convinced Stu to take one to his home, but it's the natural and not hybrid as I have so sprawling and spiney where mine is not. We saw these spiney ones in Spain on our mini hol together and he didn't know them (although I bought mine from him) ... you MUST meet this guy next visit!
     
  13. Kedi-Gato

    Kedi-Gato Gardener

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    I found some more bananas growing while on holiday in Cyprus in January.


    Bananas with flower still attached -

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    Baby bananas just starting off -

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    These ones are almost ready for picking -

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    A close-up of the flower -

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