Want to add apple, peach, pecan or fig trees to your NC backyard? ... This is because all of the tree’s energy will go toward flowering and producing fruit, stunting growth and productivity.

Double-flowering ornamental types of peach trees do bear fruit occasionally, but that’s not why we usually grow them. San Antonio Express-News Hearst Newspapers Logo Skip to main content ...

Generally, the varieties of fruit trees that flower earliest produce the earliest fruit. If there is a frost while the flowers are open, it will produce less fruit or maybe no fruit at all.