Trees with small, orange-colored fruit speckle your landscape with vibrant colour. These trees also offer you other ornamental benefits, like colorful fall leaves, pretty flowers and attractive foliage. Among the secrets to developing a healthy tree is always putting it at a place that matches its growth attributes. Neglecting this very simple rule makes it increasingly likely that the healthiest sapling wo not thrive.
Colorful Fall Screen
The leaf of Pacific dogwood (Cornus nuttallii) and “Eddie’s White Wonder” dogwood (C. nuttallii × florida “Eddie’s White Wonder”) put to a colorful fall display and create 1/4- to 1/2-inch fruit. Pacific dogwood, also referred to as purple or mountain dogwood, begets fragrant, white blooms in fall or spring, and creates an abundance of orange or red fruit in fall or winter. Its leaves turn crimson, gold or multi-colored in autumn, and it rises in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 8 and 7. “Eddie’s White Wonder” yields fragrant white flowers in spring, and also creates small orange or red fruit in fall. Its leaves turn red in autumn, and it rises in USDA hardiness zones 5 through 8.
Glossy, Evergreen Leaves
Glossy, evergreen leaves are an extra attraction for all these trees which bring small orange berries. Strawberry madrone (Arbutus unedo) has white flowers, and prolifically yields orange or crimson, 1/2- to 1 1/2-inch, edible berries in fall or winter. It rises in full shade to full sun in USDA hardiness zones 8 through 11. “Lalandei” pyracantha (Pyracantha coccinea “Lalandei”) has white or cream flowers in spring, which develop 1/4- to 1/2-inch, orange berries in fall or winter. It rises in USDA hardiness zones 6 through 9.
Moist Soil and Full Sun
It is possible to plant paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) or New Zealand laurel (Corynocarpus laevigatus) in areas of your lawn with moist soil. Paper mulberry bears inconspicuous green flowers in spring that become 1/4- to 1/2 -inch, orange or crimson fruit in winter or summer. It rises in USDA hardiness zones 6 through 10. New Zealand laurel bears white flowers in spring, which yield 1/2- to 1 1/2-inch orange juice long in summer. This evergreen grows in USDA hardiness zones 9 through 11.
Sandy Soil and Partial Shade
Western soapberry (Sapindus drummondii) and the evergreen boxleaf azara (Azara microphylla or A. borealis), also known as chocolate azara, thrive in places with sandy soil and partial shade. Western soapberry has white or yellow flowers in spring or summer that yield 1/4- to 1 1/2-inch, black, orange or yellow berries in the summer. Boxleaf azara has fragrant, yellow flowers in spring which yield 1/4- to 1/2 –inch, orange or red berries in the summer. Both trees grow in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 8 through 10.
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