i just love how cold hardy feijoas are, eventually when i get tired of protecting my tropicals/subtropical fruit trees in the winter, i’ll replace them all with feijoas.
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Same. I’m having to deal with the hassle of protecting citrus right now, all the while the feijoas are just sitting there fully exposed and perfectly fine.
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has anyone ordered NZ varieties from restoring eden? i’ve never ordered form them so i was wondering about the quality of their plants and if they’re shipped as well as one green world?
Not from them, but the plants I got from Bob Wells nursery were really nice, much bigger than the ones I got from One Green World.
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I’ve ordered four or five NZ varieties from Restoring Eden. They are nice plants, and all have grown well once I put them in the ground.
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It depends on what variety you’re ordering. I live nearby so i visit often.
There are some older ones that are 2-3 ft tall and the new ones they got in for shipment are about 1 ft tall.
Nikita, Takaka and Ramsey are about 1ft tall right now.
Waingaro, Kaiteri, kakariki are 2-3 ft tall last i checked.
I can take a photo of my plants if you wanna see how they look like. I have almost all of my feijoas from them
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Also Restoring Eden gets their feijoa stock from the same people as one green world.
When i went to one green world, they were the same in size and everything depending on how long they had been there.
The only difference is, is that they don’t seem to get the random wildcard varieties that one green world randomly gets. And if they do, they bogard it 
ask me how i know haha.
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I’ve ordered pineapple guavas from Restoring Eden twice and received damaged plants both times. Pineapple guavas are extremely brittle and they do an awful job with packaging. My packages from One Green World have always been great.
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FYI, I’m also in Florida and “Unique” feijoa variety is working out well for me. It had a great fruit set last year. My older and larger seedling trees get poor fruit set so far, and my other NZ varieties are too young to draw a conclusion about.
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This was my Restoring Eden order… the bamboo stake slipped through the drain holes on two of the pots, letting the plants slide into each other. This happened 2 years in a row. One Green World is more serious about their packaging. However, Restoring Eden offered to replace the broken plant each time, so good on their customer service.
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OGW definitely has very good packing. But there was a break a couple of years ago.
They replaced a couple of Feijoas when they broke in the box. Even the original broken trees grew back fast.
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ok, now i’m reluctant to order from them, i had that happen to me twice when i ordered trees from bob wells nursery, but i will have to try ‘unique’, i have mostly seedlings but two of my seedlings that i never hand pollinated (bc i never saw flowers) produced fruit, so some seedlings are self-fertile, surprisingly
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I’m curious which part of Florida?
Gainesville, FL
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I think most of them are. Maybe its the humidity in the Southeast, but they seem to be more self fertile here than I read in the California literature…
That would make sense. The area they’re native to is generally less humid than the South, but still much more humid than California.
They are all self fertile according to Mark Albert. I’ve never seen a California pineapple guava that isn’t self fertile. Even the wild seedlings here have fruit when there isn’t a tree around for a mile or more.
Maybe the NZ ones aren’t but I’ve been hand pollinating them.
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So I’m curious to know whether anyone else is seeing some dieback on their feijoas this winter? We had a cold January that was not as cold in absolute lows as last winter but was colder longer and with snow/ice. Now that it has warmed up a bit, I’m seeing a fair bit of limb dieback on my plants. Takaka even has peeling bark around the trunk near the ground. I can’t figure out whether it was the cold, the frozen precipitation, or the wind that is causing it. Although most of the plants have some dieback, sometimes fairly widespread across the plant, none of it is particularly severe and it appears limited to the smaller limbs. Also, I should note that this is the third winter in ground for most of these plants.
How good is your soil drainage?
Feijoa can handle cold temperatures but will die if soil doesn’t drain properly.
I think drainage is pretty good. It looks like cold damage and/or wind damage to me.