Hi Nancy Your tree is looking beautiful and very productive! I hope that you outsmart the critters and enjoy the fruits of your labor. My lychee is looking very healthy but I did not see any fruits, probably I got the biennial one, lol. I am enjoying some nice time in Nice, France, went to the market this morning and I got some very tasty fruit to go with the fresh bread and cheese, today we went to the rose gardens, tomorrow will do the international gardens, we are here in zone 10a but is about 70 degrees and no humidity. A lot of the plants are the same like florida but more variety, I saw some beautiful fuchsias... Silvia

As this post is EXTREMELY old, I'm sure you've already either figured out how to get fruit from your lychee, or else chopped it down in a fit of rage because it never fruited... But for people with the same problem who are coming to look for the answer in the comments, it looks like your tree is out in the open (which is a bad thing). If it flowers and then the fruit never sets, it's likely because it is too windy for the tree. Lychees are notorious for fruit not setting unless you block almost ALL wind from it. If you look at pictures of lychee farms during fruiting season, every tree is covered in giant tents. You may have to put a similar tent over your tree when the flowers start to come out as well if you want the tree to produce fruit.

I do love the way henbit looks when it is blooming, but it sure can reseed and spread everywhere that you don't want it, can't it? Earlier this week I noticed that our "Jane" magnolia has begun blooming. More and more redbuds are beginning to bloom, but the fruit trees and ornamental pears are about done.

jay told me about this- u grow a seedling next to an existing plant. Then while still growing, and without disconnecting it from the seedling, you take a small branch from the small seedling and graft it onto the main plant. Once it takes, you remove all the branches from the seedling except for the branch grafted into the main plant. now all the energy being absorbed by the seedling root system is being directed into the main plant. so you have 2 root systems directing energy into the main plan instead of 1. did i explain it correctly jay?