>>778602>that little shingled thingNah, just for decorative purpose
>>778612Upper Rhine (zone 8a), yeah I know with some stuff I'm stretching it a little , but I like experimenting. Plus many otherwise subtropical/Mediterranean stuff is sold in the form of more frost-tolerant cultivars/different flowering/fruiting behaviour around here.
Take for example figs, normally (wild form and hot country cultivars) they need to be complicatedly cross-pollinated by special wasps that don't occur here, also they carry 3 times per year - in contrast our cultivars are either self-fertile or make seedless fruits, also only 1-2x per year (pic related a tree a few streets away, there's much bigger ones in the village but currently have no photos)
Similar for our kiwis that have male and female flowers on the same plant (normally they're separate) and will tolerate down to about -15°C
