Yes, I have planted loquat trees in Katoomba and two weeks ago, I really harvested six fruits from a tree half a meter high. The taste was so so. Due to the wet weather some were split open. I bought the tree from daley's, the variety is Nagasakiwase.
I am interested in getting fresh fruit as early as possible in the year and loquats seems to fill a bit of the gap. According to Glowinskis (THE fruit book for Australia) there are earlier loquat varieties: Herd' Mammoth, which seems to be a vigurous tree which crops heavily, Tanaka which is a very early season variety but the taste is bland, Whittens and Swells Prolific which has a good taste. I did not find any of these varieties for sale. And I don't know either weather the flowers of these early varieties would be killed by frost or weather these varieties are suitable for the mountains at all. Does anyone here has more informations? Please comment!
I am interested in getting fresh fruit as early as possible in the year and loquats seems to fill a bit of the gap. According to Glowinskis (THE fruit book for Australia) there are earlier loquat varieties: Herd' Mammoth, which seems to be a vigurous tree which crops heavily, Tanaka which is a very early season variety but the taste is bland, Whittens and Swells Prolific which has a good taste. I did not find any of these varieties for sale. And I don't know either weather the flowers of these early varieties would be killed by frost or weather these varieties are suitable for the mountains at all. Does anyone here has more informations? Please comment!