Doan's nursery in Belt line road in Irving has many cocktail fruit trees. I would suggest to check this nursery for fruit trees, flowering plants and tropical plants. Be prepared to wait to get help and also make sure that you are getting the right plants because many of the plants don't have labels/pricing. I also noticed that many fruit trees are from California growers, so not sure how they would grow in DFW. Moreover, they do not give any kind of warranty to the trees.

Bob, congratulations on knowing how to say done. It took me 750 varieties. I don't know where you are located but apricots would be my #1 addition if I had what you list. They are easier than plums, less problems with rot curculio and shot-hole, more drought-tolerant, and they come in really early. Get a Tomcot, its early and the most reliable and tasty. For poms I haven't heard enough reports of long-term success (in terms of a reliable good-sized harvest) from folks growing hardy poms in the east, so overall they are a bit more iffy. Make sure the variety doesn't ripen too late, when I looked into it I estimated about half of all pom varieties are too late for me. I have had a few fruits from my poms but not enough to see how well they could work. Splitting is an unknown issue, they do seem more prone in our climate. Late frosts are another concern; half of my Angel Red died this spring in a late frost; none of the other poms was affected at all. Rolling River is another good source of varieties, but you need to check into the variety before getting it since they are a west coast nursery. The two standards for the east still seem to be Salatsvaki and Kazake, they are both known to be reliably hardy and early enough harvest. My Kazake should give me a couple fruits this year. Scott

Here on the coast, the question is: WHAT WON'T GROW AND FRUIT here? look around and you'll probably see commercial crops, orchards and vinyards of all types. There are vinyards in Paso Robles where it gets 120 and freezes, Strawberries in Santa Maria, lemons, oranges, apples, almonds, berries of all nature etc. In my yard--and subject to little maintainance are grapes, apples, plums, peaches, aprocots, tangellos, and guava. Across the street are acres of avocados. All I can think of that might be a restriction would you living in the desert but I think most grow there also, think of the crops that come out of Mexico! cheers; Michael

I second the Rocky Mtn Gardening forum- they're very nice over there, and there used to be a few people from Montana- I think one woman who is an avid gardener lives in the Kalispell area, though I'm not sure how active she is on the forum lately (as I'm not in the RMG zone anymore). I used to live in Great Falls, but other than some basic stuff like lilacs, spirea, peonies, I can't help much.