Thinking about planting a fruit tree in your backyard? Fruit trees take a while to get established, so make sure you choose a hybrid for a stronger start.

North Florida has an excellent climate for growing a wide variety of fruits, and many stone fruits such as peaches, nectarines and plums can produce well for us — if we can keep the squirrels away.

Stone fruit are fruit with one large pit, or stone, at their center. Traditional stone fruit are apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches and plums; novel hybrids aprium, pluot, and plumcot have been ...