Front Yard Fruit

‘Fuyu’ persimmon is an excellent choice for a front yard focal-point tree. Photo: David Fenton

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Excerpted from 
The Beautiful Edible 
Garden, Design a 
Stylish Outdoor Space Using Vegetables, Fruits, 
and Herbs. By Leslie Bennett and Stefani Bittner with Studio 
Choo, © 2013. Published by Ten Speed Press, 
Berkeley, California. 
Used by permission 
of the publisher. 
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You have probably seen the fruitless, ornamental front yard plum tree many times before; like ornamental pear, flowering cherry, and ornamental crab apple, it is a standard element of American landscaping. Once you have decided to grow food at home, the simplest way to begin is by replacing these ornamental trees with your favorite fruiting varieties.

A good focal-point tree should be beautiful enough to stand as a prominent visual feature of your front yard. While some fruit trees, such as pomegranate, citrus, and olive, tend to be grown in a multi-trunk style with branches starting lower to the ground, you should be looking for a statuesque fruit tree in a standard 
form, or single trunk style, f...