Goji berries
Has anyone tried growing the Goji berry? I have a six year old straggly bush which so far has failed to produce a single berry despite all possible care and attention. Any advice would be gratefully received.
Colin Carmichael
Photograph reproduced with kind permission from Sutton Seeds
Fruit, plants and flowers of Duke of Argyll’s Tea Tree growing wild in Lincolnshire – see comment below by Clive Simms
Our local Lincolnshire plant of ‘The Duke of Argyll’s Tea-Tree’ (Lycium chinense or Lycium halimifolium depending on which reference book you use) is the same thing as the Goji berry, I believe. We have plants growing wild just down the road.
In my experience the UK wild plant flowers well, but rarely produces a heavy
crop of fruit; and any fruit that is produced is rather small. However, I
have friends in Germany and Sweden that have bought named Chinese cultivars (names translate as ‘Big Lifeberry and Sweet Lifeberry) and have promised to send me cuttings to try for myself.