31st of March 2021 Update:
Farm Closed: details here: Feijoa Farm Closed 😡😢
Ebay feijoa fruit for sale:
Colombia feijoas for sale in eBay!
Feijoa – Fresh. *FREE UK POSTAGE* Buy Bulk Save! A delicious fruit for Colombia! | eBay*
Amazon feijoa fruit and other foods:
Fresh Feijoa / Pineapple Guava 1 kg*
As lovers of feijoas we want more people in the UK to grow their own. Although we’re not currently selling plants there are a fair few people selling plants or seeds on market places such as Amazon* or eBay*.
Buying feijoa plants
Most UK grown feijoas are not named varieties and are grown from seed. Named variety trees such as Anatoki, Apollo, Bambina, Kaiteri, Kakapo, Kakariki, Mammoth, Opal Star, Triumph, Pounamu, Unique, Wiki™ Tu and many others are hard to come by in the UK.
Plants grown from seed don’t always come true to type but they can be pretty close. We’ve grown a few where the parent plants have large fruits but the offspring have had fruit the size of grapes. One particular plant which has been dubbed “Marshmallow” has small fruit but the flowers are the best tasting feijoa flowers we’ve ever had.
What to look for when buying plants
The first 2 years of growing a feijoa always seem to be the slowest, after that they can grow rather fast. If you’re after something a bit quicker then bigger is better, however they can get expensive fast. There are 3 meter trees on sale for £3,450, reduced from £4,600! Yes that’s right 3 meter trees for £3,450!!!
New Zealand named varieties in UK!
Great news everyone, there are now 3 named varieties being imported by Burncoose Nurseries from NZ to the UK! I’ve purchased one of each to see how they grow:
Although in 2019 the Botanical nomenclature for Feijoa was changed back to Feijoa sellowiana from Acca sellowiana, more information here: Feijoa sellowiana (O.Berg) O.Berg | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science – I have left these titled as Acca as that’s what many people may look for:
ACCA sellowiana ‘Mammoth’ – Mammoth
ACCA sellowiana ‘Triumph’ – Triumph
ACCA sellowiana ‘Gemini’ – Gemini
Thanks to Andrew in the comments below for these links:
Urban Jungle:
Acca sellowiana ‘Unique’ – currently sold out – 5th of February 2024
Acca sellowiana ‘Apollo’ – currently sold out – 5th of February 2024
Signature Shrubs:
Feijoa sellowiana Gemini
Feijoa sellowiana Triumph
Update 09/11/20 – Fruiting, of the 3 plants I removed all flowers but 1 and hand pollinated with UK grown plants. The 3 varieties are categorised early: Gemini, mid: Mammoth and late: Triumph. The fruit below was the only one that developed to fruit, it weighed in at 72 grams – 8 grams heavier than anything I’ve been able to develop from UK grown seeds. Mammoth and Triumph were about half the size of this fruit before being stolen by a mouse.
Update 30/04/20 – 3 flower buds on my Triumph and 2 on Mammoth, these plants are roughly 40cm tall and as suggested in the Feijoa care guide I’ve put the 3 of them in my small 2.5×2.5 meter greenhouse. You may be able to grow some on a south facing windowsill indoors.
There’s a Feijoa care guide – they mention that Burncoose Nursery are yet to manage any fruit in Cornwall. NZ varieties are grown for warmer climates and more warmth creating bigger fruit.
Try growing NZ varieties indoors.
As my generalised dystonia keeps breaking my body I don’t know how this seasons crop will go – more on the front page: https://feijoas.uk/ and as a feijoa addict I really want as many people to get feijoas! I know it’s not perfect but a few small plants could be grown on a south facing windowsill and you may get a few fruit each year. If you do want to keep indoors, cut back after fruiting to keep the plant small as fruit grows on new growth. I will be getting a few more of the name varieties and trying this. Very few of my UK grown ones have fruited before they’re over 1.5 meters, a few of the cuttings have.
Primrose have 3L, 30cm high feijoas:
You have to keep checking this site as they seem to only release a few at a time for sale: 1ft Pineapple Guava | 3L Pot | Feijoa Sellowiana.
Paramount Plants Feijoas 10L up to 1 meter:
Feijoa Sellowiana. Pineapple Guava. Acca Sellowiana
09/11/20 Amazon many sellers out of stock again.
It’s often Worth trying a few links as some stock comes back in randomly, or scroll past to eBay links.
Feijoa plants for sale on Amazon UK:
There’s a lot of seeds for sale on Amazon but very few plants for sale.
Seeds:
Amazon Feijoa Seeds for sale*. – More about growing from seeds further down.
Plants:
As Feijoa plants are selling out fast on Amazon. Here’s the direct link I check to see if there’s anyone selling: Feijoas Amazon*
Update 09/11/20: Hopefully there’s loads of Feijoa addicts buying up plants to create a great feijoa culture in the UK. Amazon has suggested another seller: Acca Sellowiana (Feijoa) aka Pineapple Guava Shrub* – Cost £18.50 + £6.99 postage, total £24.49.
- Please remember plants are living and the appearance of the plants will change with the seasons.
- During the winter some plants loose the leaves, some die back to the soil, some will look happy and some will look terrible.
- Don’t panic this is normal and your plant will look great during the growing season. Our plants are grown outside to give the hardiest plants possible.
- Our plants are usually supplied in a 2/3litre sized pot.
- Not sure what to expect? Ask us if you are unsure.
Update 09/11/20: ACCA selloweana (Pineapple Guava) 3L Fruit Tree* – Cost £17.99 including delivery.
- A fascinating and stunning looking plant, this Pineapple- Guava is a native of South America yet is perfectly happly here in the UK.
- Like a bird of paradise, its flamboyant sorbet pink and ice-white blooms will create an exotic display from late spring to early summer.
- In autumn this stunning plant then yields delicious, tropical tasting green egg shaped fruits with succulent flesh
- .Bushes are evergreen giving year round interest, hardy down to at least -5C and when mature reach about 6 x 6ft.
- Delivered as a large established plant in a 3L pot
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Update 30/04/20 Currently sold out: as the seller below has now sold out Amazon suggested another option a larger but more expensive plant: Cross Common Nursery Feijoa sellowiana (ACCA sellowiana) 10ltr Specimen* – Cost £40 + £6.99 postage, total £46.99.
Product description
Pineapple Guava. Unusual and exotic looking shrub from Brazil and Argentina. Evergreen summer flowering shrub with wonderful red and white flowers. Produces sweet,aromatic fruits. ,Frost hardy. Sheltered sunny site and well drained soil. Grows to a height of 3 m. 10 litre pot.
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Update 30/04/20 Currently sold out: Keeping this listing here in case of new plants being in stock: FEIJOA or Pineapple Guava ACCA sellowiana Fruit Shrub Seedling – Evergreen Edible – 10-15cm Tall Plant* – Cost £6.90 + £4.90 postage, total: £11.80.
- Our best available 10-15cm tall, young plant in a sturdy 7cm pot; freshly hand picked from our nursery benches. Cultivated by us, under UK climatic conditions. This plant can be planted out next year.
- No plant movement in transit: with our special packing method, developed by us. FREE growing kit including full growing instructions.
- large pinkish flowers with numerous red anthers – highly decorative.
- edible fruits with a sweet, juicy pulp.
- not fussy to soil conditions, prefers full sun and a hot position.
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Feijoa Plants on eBay:
Search all feijoas on eBay:
This link should show results for feijoas on eBay: Feijoas for sale on eBay*.
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Let us know how you go.
If you do buy feijoas from eBay or Amazon it’d be great to hear how you get on. Trying to find more people growing feijoas in the UK to help grow the feijoa industry and increase the supply. Would love to hear from you in the comment section at the bottom of this page.
Growing your own feijoas from seed
It’s a slow process but can be done, there are a lot of seeds for sale on Amazon Feijoa seeds*. We currently have about 150 seedlings growing from Scottish grown fruit. Hoping to continue to improve British producing trees.
Pollination is done by a few UK birds and bees but is still best done by hand. There’s more about pollination for UK plants here: Growing Feijoas in the UK: Pollination. The seeds above are from the larger fruit shown on the pollination page. Hopefully you’ll soon have the same or even better sized feijoas as the ones we grow: Size of UK grown feijoa fruit.
Feijoas UK Newsletter:
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The reason for the * is due to affiliate links. We believe in being ethical and transparent about how the site works. If you click and buy something from the links with a * we get a small commission from the sale. It does not increase the sales price for you and the money gets reinvested into growing more feijoa trees.
Hi, I’ve got a few mammoth Feijoas growing (x 4) from seed (1 year in), originally had 40 all germinated, but killed the others by leaving them for a few weeks on hols and it got hot (they needed water).
Not sure if they’ll take when I get them outside or not, but a fair bit of land, and thus am going to get a few others (from bush and grow).
Just wanted your POV on location, I have a parcel of agricultural land, and was thinking if they’re guaranteed to fruit, would fill that parcel with feijoa. however its quite an exposed location (from one side)… how critical is it to have them completely sheltered? I can send a photo if you don’t mind?
Hey Craig, shame about loosing the other 36. I’m sure the 4 you’ve got will be tough survivors.
I’d give a few a try first, normally it’s the same as NZ to have the western side sheltered, but up here due to the bitter cold northerlies the northern side should also and depending on where you are in the UK East side may be needed to stop the bitter winds hitting.
Hopefully get some more feijoas growing in the UK!
I’ll drop you an email so you can send me the photos.
Cheers,
Gav.
Hello Gav,
I’m an RSPB assistant facilitator for a Natural England-funded farmer group in Cornwall. One thing I’m investigating is possible diversification ideas for farm businesses. Learning about feijoas lately, and seeing that Burncoose nurseries could be a possible supplier, I wonder what returns have you seen from growing this alternative crop? One or two of my members might consider it.
Many thanks,
Sarah
Hey Sarah, big fan of the RSPB, have been a member for a fair few years and a keen birder.
Feijoas should be perfect for Cornwall and birds, Woodpigeons and Blackbirds love the flower petals and even though it looks brutal they actually do a great job of pollinating the plants for fruiting.
They do need a good hedgerow (great for birds) as a wind break to block the wind to help support fruit in Autumn/Winter, the fruit can get very heavy on branches and snap. A decent mix of evergreen such as holly and deciduous plants should do a good job. I added a mix of holly and the Bird friendly mix from Ashridge around the field we use about 7 years ago.
Hope that some of the members decide to chose feijoas.
Cheers,
Gav.
Hi, I’ve had a feijoa plant in my garden for 6 years that’s never fruited. When we(me and my dad) bought the plants they came with fruits on them, he took 2 and I took 2. I’ve had 1 growing in the front garden and 1 in the back, this year I’ve moved them both to the front garden and have ordered 1 mammoth and 1 Gemini in hopes of getting them to set fruits a couple of years from now. The fruit look to set each year but then get aborted each year. Is there anything I can do to get the fruit to set and grow other than what I have already done? Would love to get fruit from my plants in the future as when we tried the fruit that arrived with are plants all them years ago both me and my dad said it’s the nicest fruit we had ever eaten
Hey John, you’re spot on feijoas are the nicest fruit 😃, so glad you both like them.
The best tips are:
Other things I do:
Feeding the soil around the plant with seaweed meal for plant health and for flower growth potash or alfalfa pellets such as horse feed* (although 20KG bag, might be a bit overkill 😉) can help. I add a smaller top up of seaweed meal and alfalfa pellets as the flowers start to fade.
On Potash if anyone knows if there’s something similar in the UK to the New Zealand product “Yates Thrive 2.5kg Certified Organic Natural Sulfate Of Potash” I’d love to hear about it.
Hope that helps and you get fruit in the next few years. If you have any questions or anything doesn’t make sense feel free to hit me up 😃.
Cheers,
Gav.
HI Gav,
I bought a baby Feijoa back to SW Surrey from NZ last Christmas and have been growing it inside for a year. It’s doing well but now that I’ve finally got my own garden I’d love to plant it. I was wondering if you had any tips and tricks on how to go about that? Do I need to lay down sand or maybe another easy to drain type of soil first? Anything else I should look to do? I’m assuming I shouldn’t plant it right now as it’s too cold? Thanks for your help mate.
Hey Callan,
Great to hear you’ve got a garden and a plant 😀. You won’t need to add any drainage or sand, Feijoas grow well on almost every soil as long as the ground isn’t constantly waterlogged. I and other growers here in the UK have them on heavy clay, obviously good loam or even a sandy soil would be better.
Planting out:
Acclimatising: a good time is Spring, as the plant’s been inside over winter the best thing to do is acclimatise the plant by putting it outside in the morning and bringing it back in each night for a week. This will stop it going into shock, but they are pretty hardy and can handle very bad weather.
Planting position: the sunniest spot that you can, especially if it has a wall behind it that can hold extra heat.
After care: a good organic mulch (leaf mould, potting mix, spent coffee grounds, spent mushroom compost, home made compost are all good) when you start to see the plant growing in Spring, about 5cm deep should do. Repeat again before the ground gets cold late Autumn early Winter to keep the roots warm over winter, this gets the plant growing earlier in the year and keeps it healthy. I also use seaweed meal and alfalfa pellets the type for feeding horses which swell up quite a lot therefore not a lot are needed a decent handful per plant should do it to add Potash for flowers as I can’t find an equivalent to “Yates Thrive Certified Organic Natural Sulfate Of Potash” in the UK.
Watering: water well when planting, during dry spells and especially during flowering and fruiting.
Hope you have fruit soon.
Cheers,
Gav.
Dear Gavin, just found your amazing website dedicated to growing Feijoas not only in UK but Scotland! that’s fantastic as i work at the botanics in Edinburgh but live in East Lothian and would love to grow them. I was introduced to this delicious fruit by my Kiwi wife 🙂 she’s loves them a real taste of home, so I try to get a supply of fresh ones every year, not always successful currently south of France October/November and this year South America via a grocer in London. I didn’t even know of your starting to sell them. I’m encouraged to start to try growing a couple of our own and will try to see what varieties are available this season. keep up the good work and i look forward to your updates as the year progresses
take care Martyn
Hi Martyn, love the RBGE such a great garden and those greenhouses are superb! The fruit are indeed delicious 😀
The 20/21 season was rubbish due to the May frosts burning all the flower buds and new growth of the plants. There’s still a fair bit of damage to the trees, a lot of dead branches, scale insects got in to the soft new growth when they did finally get growing.
I tried the 3 named varieties on here: https://feijoas.uk/2020/02/19/grow-your-own-feijoas-where-to-buy-plants/ this time in a greenhouse and found that the “Gemini” did best. If I had the cash I would setup a large scale greenhouse to grow feijoas in. Roger in the South East of England has had very good success with “Unique” outside, his Instagram account is here: https://www.instagram.com/growing_feijoas_in_uk/ sadly “Unique” is hard to find in the UK and our attempts to import from NZ have not gone well. I have about 50 seedlings just popped up from his fruit, however seedlings are not guaranteed to be true.
Will continue to keep trying to make a perfect UK growing feijoa that can withstand the frosts.
Cheers,
Gav.
Hi there. I’m keen to start growing Feijoas after securing an allotment site this year. I’m going to order some plants online- should I be growing them inside until spring time when it’s a bit warmer and will they be hardy enough to transfer from houseplants to the great outdoors?
Hi Swulinska Nikki,
Congrats on getting an allotment! They are fairly hardy, however if there’s new growth it can be killed off by frosts. We had hard frosts here in May 2020 killing off the new growth and most of the flower buds for the year, it meant a very small crop of late small fruit. All the plants survived and grew strong later in the year but there are a fair few dead branches that need to be cleaned up later this year.
Planting out:
Acclimatising: a good time is Spring, if the plant’s been inside or in a greenhouse over winter the best thing to do is acclimatise the plant by putting it outside in the morning and bringing it back in each night for a week. This will stop it going into shock, but they are pretty hardy and can handle very bad weather.
Planting position: the sunniest spot that you can, especially if it has a wall behind it that can hold extra heat.
After care: a good organic mulch (leaf mould, potting mix, spent coffee grounds, spent mushroom compost, home made compost are all good) when you start to see the plant growing in Spring, about 5cm deep should do. Repeat again before the ground gets cold late Autumn early Winter to keep the roots warm over winter, this gets the plant growing earlier in the year and keeps it healthy. I also use seaweed meal and alfalfa pellets the type for feeding horses which swell up quite a lot therefore not a lot are needed a decent handful per plant should do it to add Potash for flowers as I can’t find an equivalent to “Yates Thrive Certified Organic Natural Sulfate Of Potash” in the UK.
Watering: water well when planting, during dry spells and especially during flowering and fruiting.
Hope you have fruit soon.
Cheers,
Gav.
Hi Gav.
I’ve just moved into a new flat and have a front garden where I’m planning on putting in a Feijoa hedge but could do with some advice.
When would be the best time to plant them and would I better off with smaller or larger plants?
If I were to buy from different nurseries would they still be the same variety or will it increase my chances of cross pollination?
The only place I’ve seen selling named varieties is burncoose but it looks as though the varieties they have won’t be as frost hardy, my front garden is fairly sheltered by some large trees on the north side and has space for around 5 or 6 plants if I plant them a metre apart. I plan to create a fairly dense hedge on the outside but let them grow more loose on the inside to try and encourage more flowers and hopefully some fruit one day.
Hey Gavin, sorry for the slow response I have been stuck in hospital again due to the heart issues, still waiting on surgery but they have to have an ICU bed available before they can offer the surgery. COVID has them all full.
Gemini is the earliest fruiting variety but if you get later frosts like we did in 2020 you may want to go for Triumph as they’re a bit later, although adding a Mammoth or Gemini would be helpful for cross pollination.
Frosts although can burn leaves as long as they’re not late you should still get fruit, we had late May frosts in 2020 and it burnt all new growth and almost all the flower buds.
The photo below is from one of my test hedges, I have been trying to find how hardy the plants can be. The hedge is planted North – South with it being expose East – West, it is in shade all winter. We had 3 nights of -10C to -12C, numerous days before and after around -5C and there was roughly 30cm of snow on the ground. The weather mainly comes in from the west, the recent cold weather was from the east, these are the leaves on the eastern side of the hedge. Once new growth starts and there’s little chance of frost I will cut off the dead leaves and you’d have almost no idea they’d been hit by the frost.
Hedges running East – West with the south side showing to the sun during the day had no frost damage at all.
So far the research shows that the plants even in the shade in the North – South hedge can handle -12C with no burn as long as it’s one night only, but when there’s 3 or 4 nights or new growth they get burnt.
Hope that is helpful, please let us know how you get on.
Cheers,
Gav
Hello
I have 3 feijoa plants which are very healthy – one is planted in my greenhouse and is 5ft tall, the other two are in pots. They have never flowered – am I doing something wrong?
Hi David, You aren’t doing anything wrong, they are probably seed grown plants and they can take a while to flower, I have had one plant flower in the first year, most are 3 to 5 years and my longest was 7 years.
Hope you have flowers and fruit soon.
Cheers,
Gav.
Hi Gav, I found my love of feijoas when I lived in NZ, since moving back to the UK, I now have 4 feijoa plants (2 unnamed, 1 Mammoth, 1 Triumph). I attempt to help with pollinating but the problem is they don’t seem to flower at the same time 😔 not managed to get any fruit yet (one did set one year but it never grew or ripened). Do you have any advice? Are there any self-polinators available in the UK that you know of?
Hi Natalie,
great to hear you have a love of feijoas. Oh no that they don’t flower at the same time. Gemini is currently not in stock anywhere I can see, that’s a self-fertile variety and worth looking for. Triumph is partially self-fertile and I’d hope you get a few fruit from it even if they’re slightly smaller. As the plants get larger they should have more flowers and flower over longer periods and hopefully this will get a cross over. As soon as you notice any new growth on the plant feed the plants a lot.
Hope you have fruit soon!
Cheers,
Gav
Hi there! I’m interested in a dwarf feijoa for a small london garden, perhaps in a pot. You mention Bambina as unavailable in the UK. Do you have any other ideas? Gracias
Hey Jack, I haven’t come across a dwarf variety in the UK at all. The best I’d suggest for a pot is to chose either Gemini or Triumph and prune them hard each year you can keep them quite small and get them very bushy. For example the Gemini in the pot below will be cut back hard later this year, the cuttings will be used to create more plants and in the next few years it will become very bushy whilst staying small enough for a 20 pot.
Hope you manage to get some growing.
Cheers,
Gav.
Hi everyone,
I have two feijoa trees, they are about 6/7feet tall and 4ft wide. I have had them about 5/6 years and have only had 1 or 2 flowers on them. What can I do to help them flower ? Thank you for any advice.
Jan
Hey Jan, sorry for the late reply, Dystonia has been a bit of pain of late.
If you’ve got a wall that gets a lot of sun on it and can plant against it that will help a lot. If there’s no wall the next best thing is the sunniest position possible, with good wind protection.
Another thing to do is once in the ground mulch them around late September early October this should keep the warmth in the soil, hay is great or even grass clippings can work. A good thick layer of at least 5cm, making sure it doesn’t touch the trunk, as it can rot the trunk especially when it gets wet.
Hope you have feijoas in the next year or two!
Cheers,
Gav
Some other places to buy named varieties:
https://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/product/acca-sellowiana-unique/
https://www.urbanjungle.uk.com/product/acca-sellowiana-apollo/
https://www.signatureshrubs.co.uk/feijoa/feijoa-sellowiana-germini
https://www.signatureshrubs.co.uk/feijoa/feijoa-sellowiana-triumph
Kind regards,
Andrew
Thanks Andrew, sorry for the delay in replying. Hands have not been working much of late and when they do I try to be working on growing more feijoas. I’ve added the links to the site above, hopefully get feijoas growing in many gardens across the UK.
Cheers,
Gav.
Dear team,
I would like to buy two pineapple guava Bambina.
According to this link (https://www.edible.co.nz/varieties.php?fruitid=19_Feijoa_Bambina%E2%84%A2#Bambina%E2%84%A2), this variety is not self-fertile. Could you please advise whether planting two pineapple guava Bambina plants(same variety) next to each other or also using hand pollination (with paint brush) will help them pollinate/produce fruit?
In my neighbourhood or around area(yards away) there are no other pineapple guavas that birds or bees can pollinate my feijoas.
Thanks in advance,
Marku
Hey Marku,
Feijoa Bambina is a variety I only know by name and have never grown one. They do look great and perfect for areas with smaller space. The soft skin of the fruit sounds lovely. Wondering where you are planning on buying them from?
I’ve only managed to find info on the US and Kiwi websites, the Kiwi websites give more information and generally say self-fertile, any feijoa plant is definitely worth a try. Would be interested to hear who the breeder originally was, will have to look into that.
https://www.greenleafnurseries.co.nz/shop/hedging/our-top-recommendations-for-hedging/feijoa-bambina-19ltr/ – says “They are self-fertile but will produce heavier crops when grown near to another Feijoa”
https://tuigarden.co.nz/inspiration-hub/ideas-and-inspiration/feijoa-variety-favourites/ – says “Bambina: A relatively new dwarf variety, with thin edible skin surrounding sweet aromatic pulp bursting with flavour. Bambina is a good choice when planting in a pot. Self-fertile.”
Although I have a lot of Black Birds (Turdus Merula) due to Berberis fruiting at the same time as Feijoas flower here in Scotland, I still use a brush to make sure the stigma tips get a good dusting of pollen. There’s more about feijoa pollination on here: https://feijoas.uk/2020/01/10/growing-feijoas-in-the-uk-pollination/#comment-106
Hope that helps and you manage to get some great fruit in the near future.
Cheers,
Gav.