"The process of photosynthesis is like a fine, critical thread that invisibly suspends all our food and the dining experience before us". Lloyd Godman 2005

The concept of the light garden orchard is to create a veritable, successional orchard or fruit forest, where there the always some variety of fresh tree ripened fruit available. In temperate areas like Melbourne most orchards produce fruit in the summer and autumn, however by planting a much wider variety of trees and multi-grafting it is possible to have fresh fruit all year. The orchard now boasts over 160 varieties of fruit.

Grafting fruit trees

Below is a list of the various fruits and nuts planted in the light garden

Almond	Apple	Apricot	Avocado
Babaco	Banana	Black current	Blue berry
Carob	Cherry	Chilean guava	Comquat
Feijoa	Fig	Goji Berry	Goseberry
Grape	Grapefruit	Guava yellow	Hazelnut
Jostaberry	Jaboticaba	Jujube	Kiwifruit
Kunzea	Lemon	Lemonade	finger Lime
Lime	Logan berry	Pear	Guava red
Loquat	Luma	Macadamia	Mandarine
Maqui berry	Marion berry	Mulberry	Nashi
Nectarine	North Amderican Pawpaw	Olive	Orange
Peach	Pecan	Pepino	Persimmon
Pineapple	Pistachio	Plum	Plumcot (cotton candy - apricot plum hybrid)
Pomegranate	Quince	Red Current	Silvan berry
Spicee (Nectarine plum hybrid)	Tamarillo	Tangelo	Tay berry
Ugni molinae	Walnut	White Sapote	Young Berry