Spring is the Perfect Time to Plant a Fruit Tree

At Royal Landscape Nursery, we offer an expanding selection of fruit trees, giving you the opportunity to grow your own fresh, delicious produce right at home.

Our current inventory includes a variety of citrus trees such as lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit, and tangerine. We also carry tropical and exotic fruits like mango, avocado, bananas, starfruit, and loquats.

For those who love seasonal favorites, we have Barbados cherry, apples, plums, and peaches available as well. With so many options, you can create a diverse and fruitful landscape right in your own backyard.

Central Florida’s sandy soil and subtropical climate make it one of the best places to grow fruit trees. In fact, Polk County is one of Florida’s top citrus producers, proving just how well these trees thrive in our environment. With the right care, your fruit tree will reward you with fresh, homegrown fruit season after season.

If you're ready to start planting, stop by Royal Landscape Nursery today! Our expert team is happy to help you find the perfect fruit tree and provide advice on planting and care.

Call us at (407) 296-3042 to check availability, as our inventory is always expanding!

Palm trees are a signature feature of Florida’s landscapes, bringing tropical charm to homes, businesses, and outdoor spaces. Proper care and maintenance, particularly pruning, play a crucial role in keeping your palm trees healthy and thriving. At Royal Landscape Nursery, we understand the importance of pruning and offer expert guidance to ensure your trees remain strong and vibrant.

This guide is inspired by the University of Florida IFAS Extension’s research on palm care. Their original post provides excellent information, which you can read here.

Why Proper Palm Pruning Matters

While trimming discolored or unattractive fronds may seem helpful, overpruning can harm your tree. Living fronds are critical for photosynthesis, which generates the energy your tree needs to grow and withstand Florida’s weather extremes. Pruning palms should always prioritize the tree’s health while ensuring it remains an attractive part of your landscape.

Palm Pruning Best Practices

1. Trim Only Dead Fronds

   Prune fully brown and dead fronds to enhance the tree’s appearance and safety. Dead fronds no longer benefit the palm and can safely be removed.

2. Avoid Overpruning

   Do not prune higher than the "9:00–3:00" level. Excessive trimming weakens the tree, removes important nutrient indicators, and leaves it vulnerable to disease and weather damage.

3. Address Nutrient-Deficient Fronds

   Yellow or discolored fronds...

Source: UF/IFAS 2021

Why Flowering Trees?
Most trees, like pines, oaks, elms, hickories, ashes, and maples, produce relatively inconspicuous flowers. If you have room for another tree and want to add a splash of seasonal color, there are many options at your disposal in Central Florida. These trees also give a sense of seasonality in an environment that is relatively verdant throughout most of the year.

Where Temperate Meets Tropic
The climate of Central Florida presents an interesting problem for those seeking to liven their landscapes with flowering plants – the location is juxtaposed between temperate and tropical climates. In USDA Hardiness Zone 9b, it is just cold enough for frosts to remove most tropical flowering trees from consideration, but too warm and physiologically stressful for most of the intense flowering species used throughout the rest of the country. When people think of temperate flowering trees, it is the cherries, pears, crabapples, and other members of the rose family that tend to come to mind. In 9b, some of their relatives like flatwoods plum and Carolina laurel-cherry are still potential candidates for landscaping, but the cold-hardiest members of the tropics are often all that can be used here without heavy wind or frost protection.

Flowers Don’t Last Forever
Seasonality of flowering is highly linked to plant origin. Plants from temperate areas will usually begin flowering in the spring....

Thanks to our year-round warm and mild climate, many Floridians enjoy planting and caring for fruit trees around their property. Fruit trees offer many benefits, from added visual beauty, fruit production, and wildlife sustainability. One of the most common questions prospective fruit growers ask is when is the best time to plant fruit trees.

The best planting times for fruit trees vary according to your climate, the type of tree you are planting, and how the tree has been prepared for planting. In this article, we’ll cover the best time to plant fruit trees in Orlando, The Villages, Clermont, and nearby central Florida areas

Planting Bareroot Deciduous Trees

Bareroot trees are trees that have been dug up from the ground when they’re dormant. These trees are usually uprooted in the fall and their roots are shaken free of all soil. Generally, bareroot trees establish themselves quicker and grow more vigorously than other transplants.

Because bareroot trees are dug up while dormant, they must be planted while they are still dormant, usually in late winter or early spring at the latest. January is the best time to plant deciduous fruit trees as this gives the roots time to establish themselves before the hotter months. When choosing deciduous trees for your central Florida property, it’s important to pick ones that have a low chill requirement as they fare better in our mild, somewhat warm winters.

The chill...