An edible landscape is essentially an aesthetically pleasing design that incorporates productive crops.
Growing urban fruit trees as dual purpose landscape plants is a great way to make the most of the space you have. Modern advancements when it comes to fruit trees now mean they can be enjoyed by gardeners in spaces of any size.
Many dwarf types are now available, grafted onto rootstocks that will keep them reduced in size.
This restricts their growth, reducing their overall size and vigor, and that makes it possible to now grow fruit trees in smaller spaces, example in urban areas.
A good focal-point tree should be beautiful enough to stand as a prominent visual feature of your front yard.
The focal plant should be statuesque fruit tree in a standard form, or single trunk style, for your focal point.
Keep in mind that although all urban fruits trees require some upkeep to avoid looking messy, some are easier to maintain than others.
For this reason, we do not recommend high-maintenance cherry or sprawling avocado and fig trees for prominent front yard plantings.
1. Persimmon (Diospyros spp.)
It is your great choice for a front yard tree. The persimmon tree fruit and attractive, changing foliage provide visual interest throughout the seasons.
In spring, new leaves are a vibrant, chartreuse-green with matching flowers. As they age through the summer, the wide, rounded leaves, reminiscent of a magnolia, are full and provide great shade.
In the fall, the yellow-orange color of changing persimmon leaves is vivid against the landscape, and, as the leaves fade and fall away, the brilliant orange fruits remain hanging on the branches through late fall and early winter, like modern holiday tree ornaments.
2. Citrus
Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae.
Plants in the genus produce citrus fruits, including important crops such as oranges, lemons, grapefruits, pomelos, and limes. Citrus (Citrus spp.) is particularly useful in front yard edible gardens.
The larger leaf varieties are especially good for screening house foundations and can fill a bare garden corner nicely. It is also perfect for camouflaging building flaws or drainpipes.
Chose dwarf varieties to plant in containers to place near your front door or on a porch.
You will appreciate their fragrant blooms each time you enter your home.
3. Peach
The trees grow similarly to a nectarine and offer pretty pink springtime blossoms.
4. Pear
In addition to delicate spring blossoms and a tasty crop, pear trees offer fall color to your yard as well.
5. Pomegranate
Pomegranates are an exotic fruit that date back to ancient times. The scientific name, Punica granatum, translates to “seeded apple,” the name given to the fruit in the Middle ages.
Pomegranates make an excellent ornamental landscape tree .They are very heat tolerant and can survive in alkaline soils which would kill many plants.
They have many uses, such as hedges, shade tree, fruit tree, container plants, and even Bonsai.
Because of its long lasting red flowers and fruits, you can count on it to add pops of vibrancy to your garden or to tie in to a color theme across your landscape.
6.Grafted Apples
Grafted apple trees are one of the best for front yard and growing fruit in such trained forms is a great way to get lots of fruit in small spaces. Another modern variation in fruit growing is a family apple tree, where multiple varieties are grafted together onto one tree.
7. Blue berries
Blueberries have pretty, delicate leaves with white or pink flowers that grow into berries. The shrub’s small form is not hugely distinctive, so it works well in any garden style.
Blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) produce most heavily in full sun, but do well in partial shade and even full-shade conditions. Because of their flexibility, they make a great transitional shrub, providing continuity between a shady and a sunny planting bed.
You can also repeat throughout a landscape, they are helpful in establishing balance in an edible garden. Evergreen blueberry varieties such as ‘Sunshine Blue’ are excellent anchor plantings.
You can also use them as hedging, as low screens along a house foundation, or to define a pathway or other border in your home.
Final notes
If you have struggled to design your front yard with Urban fruits trees, I feel your pain but now there is no excuse for not getting in your garden.
I know what works for you might not work for others.
This is why we should share this information among ourselves.
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