Fruit Trees & Edibles

Live Fruit Trees & Edible Plants for Home Orchards

This is the collection for gardeners who want their landscape to feed them back. Fruit Trees & Edibles brings together every edible plant we carry in one place — citrus, apples, peaches, figs, berries, bananas, avocados, olives, and more — for anyone building a home orchard, a few productive containers on a patio, or just adding one fruit tree to an otherwise ornamental yard.

This is our largest single category, and for good reason: growing your own food is one of the most consistently rewarding things a home gardener can do, and it spans a huge range of climates, skill levels, and space constraints. Whether you've got acres to plant or a sunny balcony and a few large pots, there's a realistic edible option in this collection for you.

What's Inside

This collection rolls up several more specific categories you'll also find broken out individually on our site. Citrus trees make up the largest single group, including lemons like the Eureka Lemon Tree and Improved Meyer Lemon Tree, limes like the Key Lime Tree and Australian Finger Lime Tree, and sweeter options like the Cara Cara Orange Tree and Owari Satsuma Tree. Olive trees, including the Koroneiki, Mission, and Frantoio varieties, bring Mediterranean character along with fruit you can press or cure.

Beyond citrus and olives, this collection includes apple and peach trees in both full-size and patio-friendly dwarf forms, fig trees for a faster path to homegrown fruit, and a wide berry plant selection spanning blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, and more unusual picks like goji berries and elderberries. For something further outside the ordinary, our tropical fruit and banana plant selections include jackfruit, soursop, guava, and several banana varieties, while avocado trees round things out for gardeners chasing one of the more ambitious home-fruit goals.

Built for a Range of Climates

One of the most useful things about this collection is the climate range it covers. Many edible plants here — including several lemon, lime, and guava varieties — are rated for patio growing in addition to their outdoor zone, which means they can be grown in containers nearly anywhere in the country and moved indoors when temperatures drop. Others, like the Chicago Hardy Fig Tree or Cold Hardy Banana Tree, are bred specifically to tolerate colder outdoor zones than is typical for their fruit type. On the other end, true tropical specialties like soursop and jackfruit need consistently warm conditions and are better suited to gardeners already living somewhere warm.

Choosing Where to Start

If you're new to growing your own fruit, fig trees and berry plants tend to be among the faster, more forgiving places to begin — many varieties establish quickly and start producing within a few seasons. If you're ready for a longer-term project, apple, peach, citrus, and avocado trees ask for more patience but reward it with fruit production that can continue for years, sometimes decades, once a tree is mature.

Whatever you're working toward, check each plant's listed sunlight requirement and growing zone before buying — most edibles in this collection need full sun, though a number tolerate full to part sun, giving a bit more flexibility for less-than-ideal light conditions.

Grow Something You Can Actually Eat

There's a particular kind of satisfaction in eating something you grew yourself, whether that's a single lemon off a patio tree or a full harvest from a backyard orchard. This collection exists to make that genuinely achievable, no matter your climate, your space, or how much gardening experience you're starting with.