Actinidia kolomikta - 2009

beautiful colouring

Does this one produce fruit as well as look good?

No, this one is just grown for the foliage effect

and the effect is very pretty Andrew

Looking forward to getting one of these as we have just created a new raised bed after felling a row of leylandii. I have wanted one for several years now and found a great site called Crocus that have them for sale.I understand that for fruit to occur you need a male and female plant to be planted together. Looks like I need to get two then !! But how do you sex them?

Wendikins - yes, you will need both a male and a female to get the fruit. A good supplier should be able to sell you both sexes.
One word of caution - cats LOVE rubbing against these plants and will kill them by knocking off all the growth buds in early spring. You will need some sort of barrier to prevent this - I use heavy duty plastic mesh bent into a plant guard and tied around the bottom eighteen inches of the plant

Thanks for that Andrewr.
Oh dear ! Jonathan my cat loves to help me when I am in the garden and is sure to take an interest in the new plants when we get them. I will take good care of them once we get them in. It must be a bit like catnip!!