I grow a lot of fruit trees in my front yard and they are part of my landscaping. I use both deciduous and evergreen fruit trees. Anyone else do this?
Other than Japanese maples and a few camellias and rhodies, I don’t grow any trees that doesn’t produce fruit or nuts.
Yes i live on a corner property in the suburbs. Its all front yard lol
I try and keep the pretty flowering onrs most forward, for example my sweet cherries and red fleshed apples are focal points along with my persimmon. (Theyre all babies) my serviceberry is more developed.
In the beds i mix in berries like blueberry, black huckleberry, spice bush. Along with many other edibles like nj tea, hazelnut, cutleaf coneflower, prickly pear and more. A black walnut and 2 mulberries make up the canopy trees. I also have many paw paws which will someday form a sort of hedge along my neighbors property and figs on the other side.
I have loquats, mulberries, date palms and jackfruit trees growing in my front yard. Why waste precious space for non productive vegetation…
You can replace your camellias with tea camellias, that’s what I’ve been playing around with.
I’ve planted 3 decorative trees since purchasing my home in 2016
A Stellar pink dogwood that my wife wanted. we have had a load of issues with it, and still no flowers, but the fall foliage is very pretty
An October glory red maple that my wife wanted. still small, but the fall foliage is pretty.
A Prairifire Crabapple that I wanted for the pretty pink spring blooms and decorative fruit in the fall. maybe one day I might try and graft some no-or-low-spray apples to it.
I plan to have a few other decorative trees planted in the future, like a virginia magnolia, and a pink pom poms redbud.
nothing wrong with growing trees that don’t produce fruit or nuts.
Of all the trees I grow, the Asian persimmons, specifically those with good red fall foliage, make the most sense as a landscape tree.
Cornus mas are nice for their very early spring blooms, although not as showy as forsythia
