Welcome to Fruitscapes

Fruit trees are a wonderful way to enhance the beauty and value of your landscape. They provide nutritious food to eat and share with friends, neighbors, and wildlife; they provide shade, and are aesthetically pleasing.

Florida residents are blessed with three climatic regions in which fruit trees may be grown: warm temperate area where peaches, nectarines, persimmons, and blueberries; subtropical areas where citrus and moderately to very cold hardy subtropical fruits such as loquat, lychee, guava, and avocado may be grown and; warm subtropical/tropical areas where less cold hardy fruit trees such as mango, banana, atemoya, carambola, papaya and mamey sapote may be grown.

The variety of fruit crops available for the Florida landscape is large and within any given fruit crop species there may be differences in cold, flood, wind, and saline water and soil tolerance. Click on the crop of your interest for more information.

Contact your local county University of Florida, IFAS, Cooperative Extension Service for more information and to answer questions.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

Preparation for and Recovery from Hurricanes and Windstorms for Tropical Fruit Trees in the South Florida Home Landscape