Quick care
One page for each of the plants we print care signs for. Everything the sign says, plus what it had no room for, and free reminders at the start of each season.
Avocado
Avocados are not difficult here. They are unforgiving about one thing, and it is not cold.
Barbados Cherry
Also sold as acerola. Flowers and fruits several times a year, and the fruit carries more vitamin C by weight than almost anything else you can grow.
Blackberry
The quickest fruit in the catalogue to pay you back. A plant set out this spring can crop next spring.
Blueberry
Soil acidity decides this one. Get the pH right and blueberries are among the easiest fruit here; get it wrong and nothing else you do matters.
Fig
The least demanding fruit tree we sell, and the one most often ruined by kindness. Figs want poor treatment and sharp drainage.
Grape
Grapes grow here, but only the right kind. Bunch grapes from a catalogue die of Pierce's disease; muscadines and the Florida hybrids do not.
Guava
Heat and sun are all it asks. The fastest route from planting to a bowl of fruit of anything in the catalogue except a banana.
Java “Ice Cream” Banana
The fastest thing in the catalogue, and the one that most rewards being fed. Fruit in a year to two is normal.
Kiwi
A vine that needs a strong structure, a low-chill variety, and in most cases a male plant as well as a female.
Mango
A grafted mango in the right spot is the best return on a square yard of Central Florida garden there is. The variety and the spot are both decisions.
Mulberry
The most productive plant for the least attention on this list. Plant it where the fruit falling is not a problem.
Peach
Florida peaches are a real thing and they are early: ripe in April and May, long before anywhere further north. The variety has to be a low-chill one.
Pear
Pears do well here if they are blight-resistant Southern varieties. Feed them hard and you will lose them.
Soursop
Also sold as graviola or guanabana. The most cold-sensitive plant we carry, and the one most worth growing in a container for that reason.