Has anyone grown a Coffee plant?

[SarrissUK]

Well I decided I was going to buy the coffee ones, then decided I wasn't... then I decided I was definitely going for it after all, and went to L1dl on the way home. They had the bananas and a shed load of strawberry and very healthy tumbling toms, but no lemons and no coffee plants So I bought chicken breasts and reduced price bread lol I know how to live.

[Babru]

I read this, and I think I neeeeeed to buy this!
Part II: All You Need to Know About Growing Coffee Trees in Your Home - Thanksgiving Coffee

Interesting link Sariss. I've had a coffee plant as a houseplant for the past 10-15 years. Never had any flowers or fruit in that time! Maybe just me of course. I heard Bob Flowerdew say years ago that it was good for a shady spot, and so it has been. He didn't expect to get coffee beans from it.

It's an attractive evergreen, cut it back a bit ago, now about 2 feet tall. It's not lovely, but I like it because it's interesting, it does well, and I've never known anyone else who had one. I'd post a photo but my IT skills aren't up to it.....

[Runtpuppy]

Well I decided I was going to buy the coffee ones, then decided I wasn't... then I decided I was definitely going for it after all, and went to L1dl on the way home. They had the bananas and a shed load of strawberry and very healthy tumbling toms, but no lemons and no coffee plants So I bought chicken breasts and reduced price bread lol I know how to live.

Same here. I went to buy a lemon and a coffee plant, and all they had was strawberry, tomato, and banana plants. Also saw olive plants, but none of them were what I had gone there for, so came back empty-handed.

Well, not really. We bought a lot of chocolate (not for ourselves!) and a tiny pack of this sriracha-flavoured snack.