Landscaping With Flowering Fruit Trees

From improving our curb appeal to providing us with actual, free food, here are a multitude of reasons to landscape with flowering fruit trees.

Grow Your Own Food

The best fruit is from one’s own home garden. Most fruit at the store contains preservatives and often loses its nutritional value due to how manufacturers grow it. Provide a sustainable food source that will last for years by planting fruit trees.

Make Money

Few families can eat the amount of fruit a tree produces before it all goes bad. With multiple flowering fruit trees, some families like to sell or give away the excess. Set up a stand at a local farmers market or promote your produce online.

Reduce Your Energy Costs

Strategically planted trees can help us decrease our energy bills. Larger, flowering trees can block the sun and provide shade that cools our homes in the summer. When winter comes, sun can come through the naked branches to warm our homes.

Protect the Environment

Planting trees in general is great for the environment. They release oxygen into the air and use carbon dioxide as fuel. Provide cleaner air in your community with fruit trees. You’ll also give wildlife a natural ecosystem in which they can thrive.

Boost Curb Appeal

One of the biggest benefits to landscaping with flowering trees is that they really do look amazing all year. From the stark, structural beauty of bare branches to full fruit, every season offers a stunning take. Spring is an especially wonderful time to have them around because the flowers are whimsical and lovely. And actually, it might be a good idea to take into consideration the color of the petals when choosing a tree for the yard. For instance, when picking out crabapple trees, you can choose one with white or pink flowers depending on the shade of your home.

Pro Tip: Fruit trees are also fantastic for espaliering, which essentially means training your tree to grow flat along a wall or fence. Not only does this create a gorgeous look that can hide bare or unattractive spaces, but with the right techniques, it can also allow your tree to produce more fruit by concentrating its energy.

Outdoor Indoor

Plant trees yourself or hire professionals and assess where to situate them in so they’ll shade your home (and where the roots won’t negatively affect your foundation long term).

And while the best time to plant them is right around the season, right now is also a great time to get started. One of our favorite ways to bring trees into the home is to start with a fruit tree we can grow right within the home while it is small. There’s something incredibly luxurious about bringing a tree indoors for its first stages of life. And then once the season is right, transplanting it should be even easier.