A mate for our avocado

In the wedding anniversary tradition, year four is fruit...and so the OE gave me an avocado tree. We'd heard that avocados can be pretty finicky and the secret to success is good drainage. They like plenty of water, but if their feet stay wet for too long, they just roll over and die.

So we thought we'd use our steep block to our advantage, and planted the avocado tree at the top of a bank. I leave the septic sprinkler next to it so it gets plenty of water, but it's also well drained. It seems we picked a good location, because after 18 months it's now over 2 metres high and very healthy.

Since it's so happy, we've been looking for a mate, hopefully to help with polination. Avocados seem to be pretty light on at the nursery so the OE was pretty chuffed when he picked one up today.

I'm hoping that this is a match made in heaven and we get lots of little avocados in a few years time.