I’m looking forward to assisting Jason Ross at this upcoming grafting workshop. Please email registrations to jason@habitate.co.nz. See you there!
Author: Rory Harding
Open Day cancellation
Sorry for the late notice folks, the Open Day tomorrow has been cancelled. Hope to see you next year, if not before. Take care
Rory
Autumn 2020 Events
Hello website followers! It’s been almost a year since I last contributed to my site, and you can blame Instagram (click the logo at the top and centre of this page). It’s very convenient for sharing a few photos with minimal text regularly, plus it reaches a different audience. Any long form content (should it ever materialise!) will still be posted here, as will all event notifications. I don’t want you to get another email just to see a few photos that you’ve probably seen before in a past season. However, each season is a new iteration of the familiar and there have been some exciting changes, so I promise a decent update soon.
Meanwhile here’s a poster for some upcoming events. If you can’t make it to the open day here on Sunday March 22, there are two more on the Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 of April as part of the Wild Dunedin Festival, both 12-4 pm and $5 entry. Hope to see some of you then!
Autumn 2019
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Catalogue release + Open day
From Jason Ross…
‘This year we stoked to be releasing our 2019 Fruits Nursery Catalogue and holding our Apple Tasting at the Open Day of George Street Orchard, Rory’s abundant & diverse inner city fruit garden.
Summer at 46° South
Sap rising, fruit set and first fruits
Thanks to everyone who visited George Street Orchard on Sunday as part of the Valley Project and Otago Girls’ High School fundraising tours. It was great to see familiar faces and I enjoyed meeting lots of new people so keen to grow. Thanks also to those who purchased some of my plants – it really helps to keep my nursery habit alive!
It’s such a fun time of year – watching blossom slowly turn to fruit, seeing perennial herbs construct themselves again, launching new ideas and patterns, and witnessing the emergence of crops you’ve been waiting on a few years…
On Radio NZ today…
Feijoas FAQ
Feijoas (Acca sellowiana) are probably the most discussed crop here at George Street Orchard. People are often surprised that they can grow this far south.

They are native to South America and range in the wild from latitude 26° – 35°. In southern Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay and northern Argentina they are common to elevations 400 – 1400 m, therefore hill country not as hot as those latitudes might suggest.
GSO on film
Many thanks to Guy Frederick for making this short clip
Read the article here:Â This NZ Life article