What is your favorite Fruit Tree and Non Fruiting Tree ?

4 years ago

And why ?

Fruiting

I will start with my favorite fruit tree which is the Mandarin Orange Tree. I have several varieties but they are my favorite fruit to eat and the healthiest ( citrus family ). Not only do they taste great but look good as well. They are easy to care for , produce fruit easily where I live , are evergreen, fragrant in spring and when the fruit ripens in color the look outstanding. Also I can grow them successfully in containers. This was not an easy decision because I really love avocados but they are a little more difficult to grow in containers.

Non Fruiting- hands down for me it is the Japanese Maple Tree's. I have over 50 varieties in my collection and they are just so stunning to the eye especially as the change colors throughout the season. And some varieties even look good in the winter with their coral, reed or yellow bark.

What are your favorites and why ?

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windberry zone5a BCCanada

4 years ago

My favourite fruit tree is Italian Prune. The fruit is absolutely delicious raw when fully ripe and already falling from the tree. Full of flavour and wonderfully aromatic. It is also great in pies, I add it to soups, and cook it together with my vegetables. It can be frozen or dried. It is great for low-sugar preserves. May be I would like another kind of tree more if living in different climate, I don't know, but this one is perfect for my hardiness zone.

As for the ornamental trees, I like so many . . .

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frontporchfarm
4 years ago
I love the look of apricot trees. And the way the leaves change color. I also love mock orange and silver leaf maples.
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Since I can't grow citrus here (or not easily), I'd say my favorite fruiting trees are apples. Never met an apple I didn't like but Gravensteins are my favorite and have such a tiny commercial market that a home orchard is about the only way to get them reliably.

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My favorite fruiting tree is Meyer lemon, mainly because I use more lemons than any other fruit. It is difficult to pick just one. The fig trees from Texas that I had in Venice produced the sweetest fruit of any fruit tree that I've had, but the season is not that long, and it got hot in the kitchen when I made fig preserves, which I mostly gave away. I also love my blood orange tree and cherimoya.

Favorite non-fruiting tree is Ceiba speciosa (Silk floss tree), which makes beautiful pink flowers in the fall and has a very interesting spiked trunk.
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