date:Apr 14, 2014
and grown fruits, initially only grown as a garden shrub.
By cross breeding and a lot of research over the past 50 years, larger and sweeter varieties have been developed. From that, commercial orchards have emerged and have made the fruit very popular and widely available over the whole of New Zealand.
In the central North Island near Matamata Southern Belle Orchard has produced this beautiful fruit since the early 1980s. Emigrated from the Netherlands, Frans and Tineke de Jong bought the O