Awesome, they must have went before I made an order. I’ll snag some next year if you have some available in the future.
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Feijoa as an evergreen hedge could be functional in Enumclaw. Expect leaf drop some weeks after low 20s or colder, depending on the variety. Mine has always leafed out to normal appearance by the following June.
Defoliation after a hard freeze seems to vary a lot by cultivar, summarizing other feijoa growers posts in this Forum. 250+ plants should cover 1000"+ for hedging.
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Does your zoning requirement specify the size and density of the hedge?
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You want some Unique? I can cut you a couple. I am like 5’9" so the fruit might not be as massive as your expectations 
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If enumclaw is anything like Kent, Washington in terms of zoning, they only require an evergreen hedge and a specific ft of it. Like for Kent, i needed to plant 3 trees and make like, a 40ft strip of where they are. They can give recommendations and a no plant list but typically they don’t care as long as it doesn’t look like it’s making fruit for people
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Your city is against fruit trees?
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Fun to see Frog Hollow mentioned on this forum. We have been CSA hosts for them for years. Farmer Al is a treasure trove of knowledge, and I’ve tried to emulate his practices as much as possible.
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I used to live in Kent and tried opening a coffee stand near the movie theater area but got scammed at 3 times.
- The guy took my deposit and lied about who owned the lot. Wouldn’t refund
- The owners of the lot were cool at first but when it was time to set things in place, they also took my money and said no.
- The city, after dealing with them for a couple of years and shelling out tens of thousands, straight up told me there’s a few Starbucks officials and higher ups on town council and they will not allow me to build or put any coffee stand there around the area.
So that’s how i know about business zoning a little bit. I wanted to find and plant those tasty Plum trees that used to be all around Seattle where i grew up but they told me i couldn’t do that. It had to be sterile trees and they also had a book of recommendations as well that all looked ugly. Never got my money back from anything and everyone disappeared. Also was dealing with a lot with my ex and dog dying and now i think I’m well over the statue of limitations to sue anyone.
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It was probably all a blessing in disguise because all the things that have happened has led me to the life I’m currently living. I have a beautiful home and beautiful babies 
and i have the means to be a little irresponsible 
Without all the pieces falling the way it had, i wouldn’t have been so blessed. And without all the pieces laid, i wouldn’t be staring at over 20 feijoa plants wondering wth I’m going to do lol
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Haha made me laugh. Thanks 
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Huge plus one! I’d watch it a lot too. I have 4 fejioa’s waiting to be grafted but I’m pretty sure they are root bound. Looking forward to getting them into bigger pots soon and then grafting once they begin pushing some growth. This was already useful advice.
I was afraid of that 
Really dont want to plant a boring hedge 
Are they really making you put in evergreen hedges? But you’re a nursery in a not as trafficky area though 
mine was for an establishment of a brand new coffee stand. If you’re an older business that’s been sitting there for a while, you should be grandfathered into whatever was already there before you got there unless they decided to change the rules.
You should look into whether or not you’re grandfathered in by age if it’s not a new thing. Also sometimes the people working at city planning change and if it does, they can make a lot of mistakes that may result in your favor or against you. If it’s a new person and they’re trying to get you up to whatever new thing, you may want to read the rules of previous years and current to see if there’s a way to get around it. I read both business and building codes of Kent and Black diamond once upon a time 
if it’s a new person as well, you may be able to sweet talk them into letting thing slide by lack of their knowledge base 
but if it’s a new business venture and no one’s been a new hire recently, that’ll be a tough one but at the same time… they may not know plants very well and if they say you can plant something that isn’t on their banned list, just have then check before flowering or afterwards because feijoa fruit is hard to see anyways.
The zoos have feijoa as an ornamental plant so 
call it an ornamental feijoa
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hahaha good call. I LOVE the PG’s at the zoos. Have you ever seen them fruit? they look so cool in the landscape!
Yes! They’re long, skinny and bitter i found a finger sized one last year at point defiance and it was gross.
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My feijoas are flowering right now but what really got my attention was the amount of flowers in my Unique. Was really surprised at this cluster. Is this normal?
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That looks amazing. I have never seen such a dense flowering cluster myself.
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Wow beautiful. I had clusters, but not that dense. I think it will sort itself out and drop most after pollination. The petals are so delicious, a good snack is hanging there
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