Edible Fruits

The Edible Fruits category is populated with products that are tasty, healthy, life prolonging, attractive, and ornamental. From apples to pears, blueberries to strawberries, calamondins to oranges, and prunes to pomegranates, the fruit products literally ooze with taste and vitamins. Fruits may be the most natural food grown on this planet. Edible fruit is almost the only kind of food that grows on trees or bushes ready to eat fresh when picked.

Fruits have been established as reducing the risks of some types of cancer, heart disease, weight loss, and cholesterol control. Many fruits contain beneficial enzymes that help to contain free radical damage to cells. Edible fruits are THE source of a multitude of vitamins with high concentrations of vitamins such as the vitamin C found in oranges. Fresh fruits are a more consistent source of vitamins than manufactured supplements of unknown quality and quantities.

Edible fruit plantscan be incorporated into the landscape as flowering plants such as fruit trees with their beautiful spring flowers. Blackberries and blueberries offer attractive hedges. Vining grapes can add a trailing appearance to walls and trellises. Strawberries are beautiful when used as a groundcover. Placing edible fruit plants in containers and moving them within the landscape can add variety and uniqueness to the yard and the bonus is the delicious fruit they bear. Place citrus fruit trees in containers and move them indoors for year around attractive foliage in almost any climate. Again, the fruit is the bonus!