POMEGRANATES - OLD FRUIT, NEW BLOOD
'Til the fearless come and the act is done, a love like blood, a love like blood' - Killing Joke, 1985
When it comes to fruit and fruit trees, we don't know much about anything except pomegranates. So, please don't ask us about persimmons, plums or papaya. And with 10,000 years of history touching nearly every aspect of human civilisation (except perhaps some rare and inexplicable cultural dead-ends, like karaoke, morris dancing and golf), pomegranates still have many secrets. There's a lot to learn.
With that by way of undisciplined introduction, we bid you welcome, stranger. If it happens that it's pomegranates that you're interested in, you've come to the right place.
We have collected some of the world's finest varieties of pomegranates - from the USA, Southern Russia/Central Asia and Northern India. They come with titles arcane, vainglorious and prosaic. Please put your hands together for our cast: G. Rosavaya, G. Azerbaijani, Anar Shirin Mohamed Ali, Nabha, Chawla, Achik Dani, Isseka, Big Red, Wonderful, Griffiths, Kandahar Kabul, Jallore Seedless, Veles, Ganesh and Jodhpur Red. In the field, each promises a deliciously gratifying horticultural experience; and from the fruitbowl they extend to their environment a dignity and serenity only equalled by a cat.
Our trees are grown in organic splendour in the wine growing district of WA's legendary South West. Pampered, revered, brilliant - if subtle - conversationalists, late afternoon pyrotechnicians juggling the slanting rays, our trees owe nothing to the experimental suffering of man or beast. The paragon of agricultural light and magic, a pure product of natural forces, both willing and coaxed, Fixed Stars' stone grown pomegranates are a unique source of inspiration, enlightenment and gustatory excellence.
OK - we've more or less run out of our bulk order of adjectives, so here's what you really want to know. Fruit is sometimes available April - July (subject to seasonal variations). Cuttings are nearly always available June - August. Potted plants and bare rooted stock are available on order only. We ship around Australia and around the world. All cuttings are hand washed in UV-sterilised rain water prior to packing. Blah, blah, blah.
For enquiries about fruit, cuttings or trees, please contact us by e-mail
Retail, wholesale and nursery enquiries are welcome.
FIXED STARS. stone grown™ pomegranates
Stone grown 'granates? Huh?
'If you pay the price, she'll let you deep inside - but there's a secret garden she hides' - Bruce Springsteen, 1995
This is where we make something of an attempt to explain our perhaps just slightly oblique slogan (stone grown™ pomegranates) and how and why we do what we do with very small rocks.
Very small rocks?
Indeed. We use lots of them. Tonnes and tonnes. The sort of stones you just love to let run between your fingers. Stones of many colours. Rock dusts, zeolites, soluble trace elements, silicates, magnesium and so on. Some are dug in, some are strewn with joy and abandon around the tree, others sprayed like summer rains or dripped with clinical precision by the irrigation system. Ah, minerals! Just got to love them.
Why do we do it? Because it works. Because it's good for the earth. And because it doesn't poison the kids.
New blood from old stones! Could hardly be cleaner.
Rock on.
Cultivars 2007
'We dance out 'neath the stars' ancient light into the darkening trees' - Bruce Springsteen, 1992
COMING SOON
This is where - one day - we will describe each of our currently available cultivars. We're just waiting for the superlatives to subside and the adjectives to become more restrained.
Actually, that's a dreadful load of rubbish. The 'coming soon' banner has been there for, um, well...about 6 years so far - so, it's probably safe to assume that we're very unlikely to produce a catalogue any time soon. It's not that it wouldn't be useful - it would indeed - but it's just not the sort of thing we do (well).
*sigh*
ORDERING FRUIT
'But the stars are burnin' bright like some mystery uncovered, I'll keep movin' through the dark with you in my heart, my blood brother' - Bruce Springsteen, 1995
Are you ready for the taste sensation of the last 5,000 years? It's hardly novel....
Fresh, uncertified organic fruit is available from March through to May. Orders can be placed any time after 1 February each year - just drop us an 'e'. Otherwise, if you're in the South West, ask for us by name at your local fruitshop or in selected fine restaurants. They might know what you're talking about. Bon appetit!
