Curious what other plants senior ( and others ) members are into?

[ArronOB]

Originally Posted by SouthPark

I grow some plants that I find interesting, and sometimes useful too.

One interesting one I grow, but not particularly useful is --

Fuchsia 'Charm Rose Purple'

I grow - for lemon scent 'tea' - the lemon-scented tea tree ------ Leptospermum petersonii, which is amazing for its lemon scent ------ for putting into hot water to make lemon smelling tea.

I also grow lemon scented myrtle ----- Backhousia citriodora, which is also very nice smelling (lemon) when the leaves are scrunched together. But interestingly - you need to put many more leaves into the water pot ------ as it is not as powerful as Leptospermum petersonii.

Here, I also grow peanut, calamondon, kumquat of various kinds, lychee, dragonfruit, navel orange, lime, and also finger lime, lemon, blueberry, pineapple, papaya, sugar cane, and taro.

The taro leaves - as everybody probably knows ------ does the same thing as lotus leaves ----- that is, the water runs all over the leaf and doesn't wet the leaf. So you do get the 'taro effect' ....... same as the 'lotus effect'.

Hey SouthPark, do you actually get fruit from the finger limes. If you do then you are the first person I’ve heard who does so.

I have a couple in the backyard. It took them about 18 months to recover from the transplant. Now about 12 months further on they have recovered most of their leaves, but still they just sit there with no actual growth.

What do you find with yours?