Hardy Kiwi

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Other Names: Bower Actinidia

Description:

A vigorous climbing vine that produces delicious edible but small kiwi fruit on female plants; female plants require a male pollinator to set fruit; very hardy and adaptable, a great way to fool your friends with the tasty fruit

Ornamental Features:

The Hardy Kiwi has dark green foliage throughout the season. The large oval leaves turn yellow in fall. It features dainty fragrant white buttercup flowers with yellow anthers along the stems from mid to late spring. It features an abundance of magnificent green berries in early fall, which are excellent for fresh eating. This is a dioecious species, meaning that individual plants are either male or female. Only the females will produce fruit, and a male variety of the same species is required nearby as a pollinator.

Landscape Attributes:

The Hardy Kiwi is a dense multi-stemmed deciduous vine with a twining and trailing habit of growth. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other garden plants with finer foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance vine, and requires a special pruning regimen to reliably produce fruit; consult a specific reference guide or contact the store for proper pruning techniques. It has no significant negative characteristics.

The Hardy Kiwi is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Hedges/Screening
• Orchard/Edible Landscaping

Plant Characteristics:

The Hardy Kiwi will grow to be about 40 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. As a climbing vine, it tends to be leggy near the base and should be underplanted with low-growing facer plants. It should be planted near a fence, trellis or other landscape structure where it can be trained to grow upwards on it, or allowed to trail off a retaining wall or slope. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 15 years.

This vine does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments.

This species is not originally from North America.

* This is a "special order" plant - contact store for details