Designing with fruit trees

July 30, 11:53 AMBackyard Living ExaminerJane Gates

Previous Next

Comment Print Email RSS Subscribe

Subscribe

Get alerts when there is a new article from the Backyard Living Examiner. Read Examiner.com's terms of use.

Email Address   Include other special offers from Examiner.com Terms of Use

Designing with fruit trees: Almond tree blooms (Photo by Jane Gates)

With all the new awareness of getting the most out of your landscape, the fruit tree is being re-discovered as the queen of landscaping trees. There are varieties of fruit trees that will do well in almost every climate.

Warm climates can boast avocados, cherimoyas, and sapotes while cold climates offer tasty cherries, apples and pears. Even deserts can produce dates and jujube trees while wet climates offer exotic papayas and coconuts.

There are fruit trees that grow to 40’ in height and offer shade as dense as the best shade tree. Some fruit trees, like citrus, are evergreen and perfume the air with their blossoms. Many put on flower shows that rival the gaudiest blossoms of decorative flowering landscape trees. And some make charming dwarf trees perfect for pots or small spaces gardens.

Lots of fruit trees even turn blazing colors before dropping foliage in the late autumn. Others are evergreen.

Use fruit trees wherever you might want an ornamental tree to accent your landscape design or you can use an attractive shade tree. Line up fruit trees as sentries along paths or roads or plant a whole orchard of fruit trees. Use a particularly handsome specimen as a focal point in the garden or slip trees in the back of a planter to add height to a garden design.

There are so many ways you can design with fruit trees. And you will get more for your efforts by planting fruit trees than you will get with any other type of tree in the landscape.