Plant Name

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Actinidia deliciosa

Common Name

Chinese Gooseberry, Kiwi Fruit. Syn. Actinidia chinensis

Soil

Chalk and Sand

Sun Aspect

Part Shade or Full Sun to maximise fruiting

Soil Moisture

Dry

Plant Type

Self-twining Deciduous Climber

Height x Spread in feet

30 x 10

Foliage

Mid Green

Flower Colour in Month(s). Fruit

Fragrant Creamy-White in July-August followed in female plants by edible gooseberry-like fruits.

Comment

Climbing form. Prune in late winter use Pruning Group 12 to aid fruit production. Needs both male and female plants to get fruit. Frost Hardy to -5 degrees Centigrade so train against a house wall or put in a Greenhouse.

Available from Coblands Nurseries Ltd and Palmstead Nurseries Ltd.
Photographs by Coblands Nurseries Ltd.