tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26067482.post4427543529213445430..comments2024-03-23T02:42:17.889+13:00Comments on Quiltingorchardist: Fruity Things.Ali Honeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12671890094425941272noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26067482.post-54313091752959998042008-12-06T09:42:00.000+13:002008-12-06T09:42:00.000+13:00Love your beautiful berry pictures! I have never ...Love your beautiful berry pictures! I have never made fruitcake, just enjoyed it...Yum!julieQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00509047751868460895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26067482.post-48365790105113038432008-12-04T07:10:00.000+13:002008-12-04T07:10:00.000+13:00What is Feijoa?What is Feijoa?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12891803528855597132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26067482.post-67027745217739614942008-12-03T21:02:00.000+13:002008-12-03T21:02:00.000+13:00Oh we had a whole hedge of Feijoas, & there we...Oh we had a whole hedge of Feijoas, & there were the long variety, & the round ones. We loved them! Though, by the end of summer we were sick of them. No large freezers back in our day! We had them sliced with a little sugar or stewed with icecream or a sponge topping, a hot dessert. I never see them in the shops over here, so they must be hard to grow- or not profitable.<BR/>You made me feel homesick!<BR/>your strawberries make my mouth water!meggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00061112627819270427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26067482.post-46269235788976538042008-12-03T15:07:00.000+13:002008-12-03T15:07:00.000+13:00Feijo and Pohutokawa are indeed related. Scientifi...Feijo and Pohutokawa are indeed related. Scientific: Metrosideros excelsa both are of the myrtle family. The website said the Pohutokawa sometimes grows so close to the sea that oysters can be found growing on them! My favorite NZ tree.TGTadventureNZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473996983304979184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26067482.post-35874279660296786172008-12-02T19:14:00.000+13:002008-12-02T19:14:00.000+13:00Beautiful picture of these yummy strawberries!Gett...Beautiful picture of these yummy strawberries!<BR/>Getting ready for Christmas, already? I should start thinking of it too...Françoisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11177778039745875900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26067482.post-81441449646277251022008-12-02T16:51:00.000+13:002008-12-02T16:51:00.000+13:00Seems like everyone in blogland is busy making fru...Seems like everyone in blogland is busy making fruitcake! My mother used to make them in November. Very heavy and rich. She'd wrap it up in liquor soaked cloth and let it age keep in the [frigid zone!] front sitting room. I didn't like it much, although fruitcake afficionados loved hers! But I never refused a slice as I LOVED the blanket of marzipan she wrapped around it, and the hard icing that she made to look like snow! She always put a little miniature cottage and a few little trees on top--I really loved how it looked.....<BR/>I make a much lighter fruitcake when it's closer to Christmas.mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03797484583400519909noreply@blogger.com