Florida-Grown Fruit Trees & Berries
Discover our extensive collection of climate-adapted fruit trees, berry bushes, and edible perennials — all nursery-grown for Florida conditions. From citrus to cold-hardy favorites, we stock proven varieties that deliver bountiful harvests.
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Anna Apple
Anna Apples were originally developed in Isreal and introduced into the United States in the 1950’s. They are one of the favored Low Chill varieties recommended by the University of Florida for reliable production in the State of Florida. Anna Apples are a light red blush apple with a crisp texture and sweet slightly tart flavor, perfect for fresh eating.
Ein Shemer Apple
The Ein Shemer apple was also developed in Isreal and was bred specifically to withstand warmer climate conditions. It is one of the most popular varieties of apples in Isreal and is also a University of Florida recommendation for the State of Florida. They are reliably and high productive in northern Florida. These are a nice green to yellow apple good for cooking or fresh eating.
Golden Dorsett Apple
The Golden Dorsett apple was developed in the Bahamas and brought to the United States from there in the 1950’s. Being a tropical apple tree they are perfect for the Florida Panhandles warm climate and require a low number of chill hours. They are a very sweet crisp yet creamy yellow gold apple. They are perfect for fresh eating, fruit salads, and cooking and preserving.
Granny Smith Apple
The Granny Smith is one of the most recognizable and wide spread apple varieties. This apple was developed in Australia in the late 1800’s. It is a crispy tart green( apple favored for its longer shelf life and most popular for cooking and baking. They are heat tolerant and grow well in the Florida Panhandle and are a great choice to help with pollination of your other apple trees.
Pineapple Pear
The Pineapple Pear combines the best of both worlds- a highly productive crispy juicy pear with a sweet tropical pineapple like taste! It has a balanced flavor and texture profile and is not overly sweet or overly hard. A great and popular choice in Northern Florida due to its heat tolerance and low chill requirements. This favored variety of pear will add a unique flavor to your orchard.
Kieffer Pear
The Kieffer pear a hybrid pear and is one of the most popular southern pear varieties. It is a low chill variety, as well as heat tolerant and can thrive in a wide climate range. They are a highly productive cultivar. The fruit itself is light in color, crispy, and has a hard to semi hard texture. It can be used for fresh eating when ripe and is very popular for canning, baking, and preserving.
Hood Pear
The Hood Pear is a favored fresh eating variety of pear that was originally bred in the Hood River area of Oregon. It has low chill requirements making it a preferred choice for Northern Florida. It is reliably productive and relatively disease resistant. The fruit is creamy, light colored, sweet and has a tender and more smooth texture then harder pear varieties. People commonly choose this as a second pear tree for your orchard do you have one variety for preserving and shelf life and one for eating straight from the tree!
Baldwin Pear
The Baldwin Pear is a great option for southern gardens as it is a low chill and moderately disease resistant variety. It is a semi- hard and freshly sweet variety that is very versatile and can be used for fresh eating or canning or preserving and baking. The fruit is gold- yellow in color and has reliable yearly production.
Shinseiki Pear/Sand Pear
Shinseiki pears are true Asian Pears and unlike the hybrid or European pears they are harder and are often likened more to an apple then a pear. These are also known as apple pears or sand pears. They have a firm crisp texture like an apple but with the flavor of a pear. They are very popular in the Florida Panhandle and you often see very large old growth Asian pears trees on older homesteads and farms. They are the favored variety for preserving and keep their firm texture even after canning.
Orient Pear
The Orient pear despite its name is actually more similar to a hybrid or European pear then an Asian pear in that it has a smooth, creamy, flesh and is great for fresh eating. It has a round oval shape fruit and is a reliable mid season producer in Northern Florida.
Moonglow Pear
The moonglow pear is a highly productive, low chill pear variety making it a great choice for the Florida Panhandle. Its similar to the popular grocery stores varieties of pears but does have a beautiful blush when its ripe. It is not to hard but not to soft and mushy so it’s a great well rounded fresh eating variety that can also be used for baking and preserves. It is a good choice for a pollinator so it makes a popular choice for a second pear for your orchard.
Tropic Snow
The Tropic Snow peach is a very low chill variety making it a popular variety throughout the southern United States. It is a white peach with just a tiny bit of fuzz and a freestone pit. They are considered to have a very delicate sweet tart flavor and are a nice unique addition to your orchard.
Gulf King
The Gulf King peach is a low chill variety of peach requiring 350-400 chill hours. It is a very popular choice for the south and all along the gulf coast and was developed as part of a collaboration program between University of Florida and University of Georgia. It is clingstone peach and has a yellow/red firm flesh that is able to last longer on the tree and has a longer shelf life.
Florida King
The Florida King Peach is a sweet, juicy, and semi-firm clingstone peach. It is one of the most popular varieties of peaches in Northern Florida and requires only approximately 400 chill hours. These trees are so productive that the fruit will often have to be thinned out so it doesn’t break the branches!
Sam Houston
The Sam Houston peach is a low to medium chill variety of Peach requiring approximately 500 chill hours and was developed at Texas A&M University. This peach is a freestone variety with sweet and juicy yellow flesh. It ripes in late spring to summer and is popular for fresh eating as well as preserving and baking.
Sun Red Nectarine
The Sun Red Nectarine is a low chill nectarine variety. The fruit is sweet, tart and reminiscent of a peach but with a more smooth and non fuzzy skin. They have a high yield, medium red flesh and are very juicy with the perfect combination of sweet and tart acidity. Great for fresh eating or for cooking in baked good and sauces.
Santa Rosa Plums
By far the most popular choice and widespread plum grown in Northern Florida. These plums are large and sweet with a slight tang and have a deep red to purple skin with yellowish inside.
Methley Plum
Methley Plums are a sweet, reddish-purple plum that is easy to grow and a favorite for home growers. The flesh is very juicy and is great for fresh eating or jellies and other culinary applications.
Burbank Plum
The Burbank plum is a heirloom variety of Japanese plum. It is red-purple on the outside with a delicious and juicy flesh. They hang on the tree for some time so they can help extend your plum season as there is a wide window in which you can pick the fruit.
Blue Damson Plum
The Blue Damson plum is an ancient plum cultivar. It is very easy to grow and highly productive. The fruit itself is more on the sharp savory side and is prized for its strong flavor lending well to jellies and jams and prunes.
Stanley Plum
Stanley plum is a dark color European plum. This plum is going to have a dark blue to purple fruit and have a strong plum flavor which is more sweet then the Blue Damson. This plum is suitable for fresh eating or pruning and preserving. This plum does require higher chill hours so its recommended for the colder areas of Northern Florida and above.
Golden Plum
The Golden Plum is a high productive, easy to grow plum tree. It features a bright golden yellow plum with a sweet soft and juicy interior. They are freestone and fall right off the pit. They are a great choice for a pollinator for another plum tree and add a different color and flavor profile to your orchard.
Green Gage Plum
The Green Gage plum is a naturally occurring European hybrid variety. The fruit is green in color, small to medium size, very juicy and sweet with a freestone pit. It can be eating fresh but is very common especially in Europe in desserts, preserves and baked goods.
Russian
Russian varieties of pomegranates include the Parfianka, Salavastski, and Afganski. They are cold hardy and feature a large fruit with a red inside with sweet tart flavor.
Wonderful
The Wonderful Pomegranate is the most common cultivar variety found in your local grocery store. They have large ruby red fruit and have a wonderful sweet tart flavor high in antioxidants. We recommend pairing a Russian and Wonderful Pomegranate for a diverse flavor profile and cross pollination.
Pineapple Guava- Feijoa
The Pineapple guava is an inconspicuous evergreen shrub that produces a small oval shaped fruit with green skin and white flesh. They are sweet and flavorful and have a slightly tropical or citrus flavor. Not a true guava, but because true guava cannot reliably be grown in Northern Florida due to its lack of cold tolerance the Feijoa is better choice and has a fruit that is somewhat similar to a true guava. They are extremely cold hardy and don’t require any winter protection. They feature a small bright red flower with edible petals that have a taste like a light cinnamon gum. Two plants are required for pollination.
Arbequina Olive
The Arbequina olive is the most popular type of Olive tree to grow in Northern Florida. They grow to be large trees with silvery green leaves and are very hardy. They are a dual purpose olive and can be used for brining and eating or for olive oil.
Arbosana Olive
This is a Spanish born cultivar that matures later then Arbequina olive. They are consistent and reliable produces and are a great choice if you enjoy eating brined olives. They have more of a darker sage green leaf then the Arbequina.
Loquat
Loquats are also known as a Japanese plum, but not actually plum, and are beautiful evergreen trees with large leaves that are a favorite in our area of Florida. They produce a small sweet flavorful fruit with an edible skin and a small to medium seed or seeds on the inside. They are wonderful eaten fresh off the tree and in abundance can be made into jelly or jam.
Brown Turkey Fig
Turkey figs are an old timer favorite throughout the south. The fruit is semi soft and can be pulled off the plant very easily when ripe. They are purple on the outside when ripe and red on the inside.
Celeste Fig
Celeste figs are a cold hardy and heat tolerant variety of fig. They produce small to medium size fruit that ripes mid summer through early fall. They have a dark purple exterior and can be a light to dark red inside depending on the ripeness when picked. They have a sweet and fruity flavor.
Black Mission
Black Mission figs are a very popular fig variety and often what you find in the grocery store dried or fresh from California. They have a dark purple to black exterior and a bright red interior and a very jammy figgy flavor. They can also be used in cooking applications for savory dishes.
Texas Everbearing Fig
Texas Everbearing Figs are produce medium to large bell shaped figs with brown skin and sweet red interior flesh. They produce two crops per year so you get a small crop in spring and a main crop in summer to early fall! They are well suited for hot climates and reliably productive.
Fuyu Persimmons
Fuyu Persimmons are by far the most common and most popular persimmon variety. They are small to medium size round orange fruit. They will be orange and just starting to lose their firmness when they are ready to pick. They can be eaten when they are still relatively firm when they just start to ripen or they can be eating when they are soft and have a little more squishy texture. They can be peeled and sliced or eaten skin on right off the tree like an apple. They are sweet and almost have a cinnamon or spice type flavor.
American Persimmons
American Persimmons are a favorite among hunters and animals lovers as they are soft and fall off the tree when ripe and tend to attract deer. They are native to the US and often found growing wild in Northern Florida. They are an astringent type persimmon and has to be eaten when its fully ripe and soft or it will retain its astringent qualities and pucker your mouth. Once fully ripe though they are sweet and have an also spreadable jelly like consistency.
Pecans
Pecans are very large nut producing trees that are native to North America. Pecan trees are popular and widespread throughout Northern Florida and the surrounding states. These are large trees at full growth and two trees are required for pollination so they will require a decent amount of space in your landscape. We recommend choosing the area where you plant these trees wisely and ensuring that you leave adequate space from your house and your other orchard plants so they have plenty of room to grow. These are a must have for homesteaders and survivalists as they are a great source of fat and protein and are also a good choice as a per acre investment plant. Ask us about our per acre orchard pricing for pecans. Our varieties will vary from year to year and start becoming available around January.
Dunstan Chestnuts
Chestnuts are a popular choice in this area for deer food plots as well as homeowners who enjoy eating these delicious nuts. This is a hybrid variety and is blight resistant. They require two or more for pollination and should be planted 30-40 feet apart. They are not eaten raw and are roasted on the oven or over a fire, boiled or steamed before eating. They have a delicious nutty flavor and can be enjoyed by themselves or added to a variety of dishes.
Banana
Yes!, you can grow bananas and get them to fruit in Northern Florida! Variety selection is important as well as proper planting and care. We feature a class each year during the fall Fl/GA farm tour and are always happy to provide information sessions at the nursery and demonstrations on how to property grow your bananas so you are able to have a successful harvest. Home grown bananas are a world of difference from what you find at the grocery store and you will be amazed at how large and heavy a rack of bananas actually is. Bananas can be purchased at the nursery dug up to order or potted. Ask about variety availability.
Brightwell
Medium to large berries with a sweet pleasant flavor. Early season.
Premier
Ripens very early in the season often the first blueberries ready on the bushes. Large fruit with a sweet flavor.
Alapaha
Ripens early to mid season. Medium size berries with good color, firmness and flavor.
Vernon
Ripens early to mid season. Medium size berries with a sweet flavor. Considered to be a great pollinator variety.
Powderblue
Mid to late season blueberry. Powderblue is a vigorous growing and good producer with a beautiful powdery blue fruit color and good sweetness.
Tifblue
Mid season blueberry. The fruit is large and light blue in color and is very firm and flavorful.
Titan
This is a very popular rabbit eye blueberry variety. The fruit is 2-4x the size of an average blueberry. They are early produces and ripen early in the blueberry season. They are sweet and have a pleasant texture.
Pink Lemonaid
Pink Lemonaid blueberries are a beautiful shade of pink when they are ripe and do not turn blue at all. They are ready midseason and have a light sweet but slightly tart flavor when ripe. These are a fun addition to your blueberry patch and will add some interest and color.
Elderberries
Elderberries (Sambucus) have increased substantially in popularity since COVID and are know for their high antioxidants and immune boosting properties. If you are looking for a simple way to make your own medicine you have to add elderberry to your orchard. They grow quickly, are cold hardy, and bloom beautiful bouquets of fragrant white flowers which turn into the berries once pollinated. Choose two varieties for pollinator. The berries must be processed before consuming and CANNOT be eaten raw.
Blackberries
Blackberries are another powerful superfood that are very easy to grow, produce at a young age and are packed full of antioxidants and nutrition. The warm and humid climate of Florida are perfect conditions for blackberry growth. The cultivar varieties of blackberries are a world of difference from the thorny wild blackberries that grown wild throughout the southeast. Cultivar varieties are larger, sweeter, juicer, and many varieties available now are thornless. Blackberry varieties are considered either trailing, semi erect or erect depending on their growth habit. Trellis’s are recommended for most varieties. We do offer custom built trellis’s so you can properly grow and harvest your blackberries. Varieties available vary from year to year.
Raspberries
Raspberries are a delicious addition to your orchard! The varieties we carry are self fertile and produce at an early age. These bright red fruit add a splash of color as well as antioxidants and a sweet sometimes tart flavor. You can trellis and train them in rows for a structured experience or let them grow wild and create a spreading patch of amazing fruit. We typically carry the Caroline variety which has proven the best so far in our area for heat tolerance.
Hardy Kiwi/Kiwi Berry
Hardy kiwi are one of the more interesting fruit to add to your homestead. We have self fertile varieties so you don’t have to have space for a male and female vine. Hardy kiwi are tiny kiwi’s with no fuzz! You pick these off the vine and eat the skin and all. They look like a cross between a kiwi and a grape. They are a vining plant and are typically grown on a trellis. For the proper picking experience and most prolific harvest consider our custom built Kiwi Trellis.
Fantastic
Touted as of the most cold hardy varieties of avocado available. Fantastic is a small to medium, green skin and semi firm flesh. It is a type A variety and ripens mid summer to early fall. Perfect for slicing.
Mexicola Grande
A very cold Hardy variety of avocado rated to tolerate as low as 18 degrees. It is a medium size fruit, thin black skin and a rich a creamy flavor and high oil content. Ripens mid summer to early fall and is a type A pollen.
Brogden
The Brogden is a moderately cold tolerant variety. It features a thin, green to black edible skin with a rich, buttery, and ultra creamy texture. It is a very fast growing plant and can produce at an early age. It also has beautiful dark red tinged foliage and the plant itself is quite pretty in your landscape.
Satsuma
Satsumas are by far the most popular and sought after citrus variety in the Florida Panhandle. They are one of the most cold hardy citrus varieties and are often chosen for groves and home orchards in the colder areas of the south. They are a small sweet-tangy easy peel mandarin with little to no seeds. They are also very juicy with the segments being described as a sac of juice with less texture or fiber then other orange or tangerine types.
Meyer Lemon
The Meyer Lemon is a very cold hardy hybrid citrus variety. The blooms on these plants have the most amazing sweet floral small and attract tons of pollinators. The fruit itself is large then a traditional lemon and has a sweeter less acidic flavor. They are favored due to their cold tolerance, bountiful harvest and less astringent juice.
Persian Lime
Persian limes are a very popular lime variety that originated in the middle east. It has a sweet tart flavor and is one of the most widely grown lime species. It produces a small to medium size fruit that has a prolific harvest.
Red Lime
This is our favorite variety of sour citrus to grow by far! They are also known as Rangpur limes and have a red-orange color and very distinctive flavor. These limes add a burst of tangy tart flavor to your cooking, sauces, drinks, and are great for squeezing on fish.
Blood Orange
Blood oranges are known for their striking crimson colored flesh which is where they get their name. They have a slightly but not overly sweet flavor with a lightly berry flavor. Their dark red color does pack them full of extra antioxidants and anthocyanins for added health benefits.
Dancy Tangerine
Dancy’s feature that classic sweet punchy bright tangerine flavor that if you like tangerines you cant get enough off. Tangerines are great for juicing or fresh eating and have more flavor and tang then standard type oranges. They are easy to peel and a classic Florida Favorite. Dancy is just one of the tangerine types we carry in our rotating inventory.
Clementine
We carry a rotating stock of several different types of Clementine style citrus. You will know these from the grocery store as cuties or halos. These are a favorite for easy peels snacks, kid lunches and grab and go fruit.
Tangelo (often Honeybelle or Sugarbelle)
Tangelos are a hybrid citrus being a cross between a pomelo or grapefruit and a tangerine. Many of them are recognized by their easy to peel rind with the bell shape. They have a sweet tangy flavor being a bit sweeter then a standard tangerine.
Kumquat
Kumquats are a fan favorite in Florida due to their cold tolerance, small size (both the fruit and the tree) and prolific harvest. The fruit are very small, often smaller then even a key lime, and are eaten skin on. The skin is thin, edible, and packed with vitamins and fiber. You can choose either a sweet variety or sour, whatever your taste preference is.
Red Grapefruit
Ruby red being the most common variety, but other varieties can include Flame and Ray Ruby. Red Grapefruits are grown throughout the state and are often sweeter and more cold hardy then white or yellow grapefruits. Just half of one grapefruit can provide your whole day’s dose of vitamin C. Grapefruits are popular for weight loss, immune boosting and being diabetic friendly.
Calamondin
Also known as Calamansi or Philippine Lime these small tart fruit are a hybrid citrus originating in the Philippines. Used mostly for sauces, marinades and juice these fruits are the secret ingredient in many Philipino dishes. We cater to our diverse customer base and try our best to stay stocked up on this coveted hard to find variety.
