Fruit and Nut Trees - have them? want them?

Does anyone have something growing in their yard? I grew up in Florida and we had a grapefruit tree, loquat tree and an orange tree.

Where I live now in upstate SC just about anything grows here and I am eager to plant 1-2 fruit trees and maybe 1-2 nut trees.

I found this site which has very good prices, at least so far that I have found.

I am thinking I will order some things in late February/early March.

They show a color map of places the tree will survive.

I would like to order a Arkansas Black apple tree, a loquat tree, and a pluout (plum/apricot)tree - as for nuts, I'm not sure.

I would get most use from a pecan tree - but there are 10 different kinds!

So, what do you have currently, had in the past and loved or hated, or hope to have in the future?

I have no trees, I live in an apartment complex.  There are trees, but none of them are mine.  There are plenty of pecan trees that we can scavenge that grow locally on public property or doctor's offices, etc.

Seems like I remember the word Papershell, associated with good pecan trees.  I suggest you cal your local agricultural agent for suggestions.

As far as trees, the only fruit tree we have is a peach tree.  They are fantastic, and we make jam/preserves with them.

What we have a lot of are blackberries.  We have two bushes and during the summer we'll pick 6-12 cups every few days.  We make jam and all sorts of other goodies like a blackberry chipotle glaze for ham.

Next year, I'm looking forward to moving our peppers and tomatoes to the yard rather than pots so we can get more.

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Seems like I saw a recipe on the food network for a blackberry BBQ sauce that looked good.  You might hunt for it if you like that kind of thing.

Wild things that grow here: sand plums (wild plums), muscadine grapes, hickory, black walnut, pecan and a few regular walnuts.  Here and there you can find pear trees that have gone wild or are on old homesteads that have been abandoned.  People grow plums, peaches (at home and in groves) and pears, some types of apples.

We had crabapples at my mother's home for years but we didn't eat them.  The squirrels and bees and wasps loved them.  For me they were just a mess to clean up every fall.  But our pecan trees gave us a nice crop every year.  Each spring whatever nuts we didn't eat during the fall we put out for the squirrels.