Peaches and nectarines are a given, even if most of the available cultivars tend to have problems with fungus during rainy summers. In fact, the town of Weatherford, just due west of Fort Worth, has a regular Peach Festival. Pecans out here are nearly indestructible (I have a monster one right next to my front porch), and the only real dangers they face are webworms and squirrels. Hard pears also do very well: my parents had dwarf pears that were so productive that one tree shook itself literally to pieces during a bad thunderstorm because of the fruit load. In the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, citrus does best if it's in containers (I have a Rio Star grapefruit I grew from seed five years ago in a container on my back porch, and I'm getting a Buddha's Hand citron that's going right next to it) because of the occasional freezes, and I'd never recommend avocados unless you could bring them indoors for the winter.
Well, that's a start. If you want to get an idea from someone who knows what the hell he's talking about, buy a copy of Howard Garrett's Plants of the Metroplex or Texas Trees (http://www.dirtdoctor.com/store.php?type=1). I know Howard and have my occasional disagreements (usually borne of the usual "Never trust the plant books because the damn plants don't read"), but he's a hell of a lot closer to the mark than other Metroplex gardening writers I know. Even if you don't plan to move here, buy his books anyway: I pay a high compliment when I say that Garrett does for Texas horticulture what Joe Bob Briggs did for drive-in movies.
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Date: 2008-02-27 04:15 pm (UTC)Well, that's a start. If you want to get an idea from someone who knows what the hell he's talking about, buy a copy of Howard Garrett's Plants of the Metroplex or Texas Trees (http://www.dirtdoctor.com/store.php?type=1). I know Howard and have my occasional disagreements (usually borne of the usual "Never trust the plant books because the damn plants don't read"), but he's a hell of a lot closer to the mark than other Metroplex gardening writers I know. Even if you don't plan to move here, buy his books anyway: I pay a high compliment when I say that Garrett does for Texas horticulture what Joe Bob Briggs did for drive-in movies.