Ornamental, barrier, & fruit tree recommendations?
Rachel Ewald
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Comments (10)Hi Would agree with the others but would add. Go to some of the tropical fruit club meetings . You can actually tatse various cultivars of fruits and get tons of advice on varieties suited to your area. There are hundreds of types to choose from andof course the most important is what you like obviosly lol BOP can be a great landscape plant IF you get the right variety. If you have the room White and travelers palm are fantastic . The shorter more manageable regina and it's hybrids are good choices. Look for types that flower above the foliage and if you can find it "juncea " they have tubular leaves and don't hide the flowers. be prepared to do some serious searching for "cultivars" as in most nurseries they lump them all together.lol On line might be a good choice of a place to look . gary...See MoreFruit Tree Recommendations
Comments (6)The first decision you have to make is how much effort & pesticide you want to put into the project. All sorts of fruits *CAN* be grown in New England. If you want a sense of what is possible, go to Belkin Family Lookout Farm or Kimball Farm this Fall to pick apples. Anything they grow can be grown in your area. Apples, pears, and Asian Pears can all be grown in MetroWest. Or post on the "Fruits and Orchards" forums. If you want a low maintenance or organic garden, your choices are a bit narrower. American Persimmon aren't such good producers but handle the cold better then the Asian variety. (And road salt if you are planting them by the road). The Liberty Apple and some of the older apple varieties are inferior producers but tougher and more resistant to blizzards and disease. My parents live a bit South of you and planted a peach tree. It grew very well and fast with no maintenance. We got a couple years of fruit from it, but then a disease made the fruit go black most years after that. Most of my experience is in ornamental shrubs that produce fruit mostly for wildlife, but which is edible for us to. (More as a novelty/amusement thing). Beach Plum is super-tough and easy to transplant but it's fruit is unreliable....See MorePlease recommend an ornamental tree to attract birds
Comments (6)I would suggest getting a native tree of some kind (you'd have to research that since I'm not sure what's native to your location, Georgia is it?). For one thing, it would be a tree the native birds evolved around and "know", and also you're less likely to contribute to the invasive species problem, especially since a lot of invasive trees are spread by birds. Cercis canadensis (redbud) is beautiful and native, but I'm not sure if it feeds a lot of birds. I think a native holly would be good (around here we have yaupon and possumhaw holly), since they have berries in the winter when the birds really need the food. They're also very attractive. Birds also love juniper/cedar berries, but while native, some people hate junipers because they're allergic to them. Here, have yourself a native plant guide I just Googled up. Looks like you have all the trees I've mentioned and then some, including a native crabapple. Good luck....See MoreOrnamental tree or shrub near doorway recommendations less than 8ft ?
Comments (27)By coincidence, I have a similar problem. Twenty-five years ago (at least) I planted a dwarf mugo Pine in a small area at the front corner of my house. Two years ago, I finally decided it had to go, looking seriously overgrown for its site. I put a dwarf Meyer Lemon there. Two years later, I’ve had to prune it multiple times to keep it in bounds. Unlike my other dwarf Meyer Lemon which naturally keeps to about 5x5, this one sends out 3’ long branches from multiple sites. And it has vicious thorns, something my older Meyer Lemon lacks, so I think I have an incorrectly labeled plant. All this to say, I think a true Dwarf Lemon might be a good choice. There are probably other dwarf citrus that you could choose. They are evergreen, with foliage that looks good all year and the fruit is very decorative. Also a variegated Calamondin orange (a form of mandarin orange) is very colorful and slow growing and easily prunable. Check out this link [Dwarf Citrus[(https://www.houzz.com/magazine/dwarf-citrus-trees-offer-miniature-size-with-maximum-flavor-stsetivw-vs~89268651) Another choice would be a dwarf conifer. There are hundreds of wonderful dwarf conifers to choose among. Some grow as little as an inch or two annually, others more. They come in all shapes, from ridiculously skinny to wider than tall. And in many colors. I‘ve just given away the misnamed lemon tree and I think I will choose a substitute in the pine family, either a bristle cone pine cultivar, a Pinus edulis cultivar or a Pinus mugo cultivar. I love Valley Cushion, a mugo pine cultivar. I once grew Pinus edulis at the front of my house too. Very attractive, very slow growing, and also lasted about 25 years before it got too big. For your area, I think Pinus edulis might do well. They are very slow....See MoreBlueberryBundtcake - 6a/5b MA
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