I traveled to South Florida this past weekend and got to visit 3 different gardens from the forum!
My first stop Friday was at Berto's place! Berto has a great place! He had a very nice passion fruit trellis! Also a very nice collection of plants! I am looking forward to seeing more pictures from his collection as the season progresses! Berto was a super nice and knowledgeable guy to visit! If you ever get the invitation to visit take him up on it!
Saturday I got to visit the legendary Harry Hausman plantation! Also got to meet SW Rancher! We took the tour together. Then we got to sample some nice fruit! We had some jaboticabas, sapodillas, star fruit, cherimoya and black sapote!
Jaboticabas always great!
The Haysa Sapodilla is a must have after sampling it at Harry's place!
The cherimoya was very good as expected!
The Star fruit was good just not a favorite of mine!
The Black Sapote was good just don't call it Chocolate pudding fruit!
We got to see a lot of stuff in bloom especially mangos!
I finished South Florida tour up Sunday by visiting Noel Ramos! I got to finally taste the legendary Giant Rollinia! Even though it was off season it was still a very good fruit! I would think during peak season it could easily be a must have tree for most everyone! I got to sample some frozen jackfruit that was very good! Nice crisp with good flavor! Also got to see the Rollinia tree loaded down with off season fruit! Also is abui in heavy bloom and his mamey tree loaded up with fruit!
Thanks,
Ed