Not Just Ornamental: Delicious Edibles

1 min read | Mar 11, 2014 | Plants 

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