Not Just Ornamental: Delicious Edibles
Fruit. Berries. Nuts.
Trees and shrubs provide a cornucopia of delicious edibles for us to enjoy. You may not have thought about it before, but a lot of those edibles can be grown in your front yard. Disguised as beautiful flowering trees, vines on a fence, or even accent shrubs at your foundation, edible plants will give your lawn beauty and functionality for many, many years.
From apples to persimmons and figs to blueberries, Fairview has a full stock of edible plants. Our plants include (updated Spring 2014):
Apples
- Gala
- Fuji
- Yellow Delicious
- Winesap
Pears
- Bartlett
- Kiefer –self fertile
Cherry
- Montmorency – self fertile
Figs
- Brown Turkey – self fertile
- Black Italian – self fertile
Blueberries
- Rabbiteye:
- Tifblu
- Premier
- Southern Highbush:
- O’neil
- Sunshine Blue – self fertile
- Bountiful Blue – self fertile
Plum
- Methley – self fertile
Peach
- Belle of Georgia – self fertile
Pecan
Various varieties – need two trees for fruit
Blackberry
Navaho – self fertile, thornless
Arapaho – self fertile, thornless