Story: Citrus, berries, exotic fruit and nuts

Walnut orchard

This well-established walnut orchard of 30-year-old trees is in Hawke’s Bay. The trees have been grown with wide-spreading crowns, to encourage maximum nut production.

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Sandy Scarrow, Citrus, berries, exotic fruit and nuts – Nuts and olives, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16030/walnut-orchard (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Sandy Scarrow, published 1 March 2009.