10 EDIBLE EVERGREEN plants for zone 7 or warmer climates! #garden

We grow 10 plants that are edible and evergreen! Fruiting trees, fruiting shrubs and an herb. We’re located in Maryland, zone 7!

In zone 7, some fruiting plants will have their flowers and fruit damaged in cold winter conditions. But that’s zone 7. They’d do great in zone 8 or warmer.

Chapter descriptions
00:00 intro
00:30 Green Tea Camellia, Camellia sinensis
01:03 Laurel Bay, Laurus nobilis (Bay Leaf shrub)
01:42 Strawberry Tree, Arbutus unedo
02:31 A surprise tree, NOT an Evergreen ;).
02:42 Loquat, Eriobotrya japonica
03:17 Guava, Feijoa sellowiana
03:53 Truffle Tree, Quercus ilex
04:36 Oregon Grape, Mahonia aquifolium
04:49 Agrita, Mahonia trifoliolata
05:24 Rosemary, Salvia rosmarinus
06:10 Inkberry, Ilex glabra
06:26 Magnolia, Magnolia virginiana or Magnolia grandiflora
06:47 American Holly, Ilex opaca

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it’s mid-march so spring has sprung but the plants that are evergreen show their true everg greenness let’s go take a look at them we’re going to take it up a not see a slightly different I’m curious to know if I get right down here you can see that ladybug lar pull the thing down like a monkey well ignore the weeds but this is a green tea plant and this girl is a genuine Evergreen the leaves hold up really well through winter even uh the colder Winters this last winter was warm but typically she comes out of winter looking fantastic a green tea plant yeah this is what you make the white tea black tea green tea and olong tea I think you make those four different teas out of this one species and she grows fantastic here in zone 7 this little beauty here is called the bay leaf tree and it’s marked as Zone 8 plant I overwintered it this year here in zone 7 and she kept all her leaves and she looks fantastic she’ll grow as a shrub you just need a pruner and kind of work it so it does grow as a shrub or if you leave it alone I believe it will grow to some substantial height and be bay leaf tree but nevertheless she’s going into the ground this spring she will be a fulltime outdoor Zone 7 plant bay leaf tree this beauty right here is called a strawberry tree this is a dwarf version she’s a full-blown Evergreen and the leaves hold up really well to cold Winters now she’s a lot like the low quat in that she wants to bloom in late fall early winter and fruit right about now the problem is that the flowers Get Zapped by the cold weather now what’s really unusual this year is about four weeks ago I noticed another batch of flowers coming out of this plant so is that second batch of flowers going to get us fruit I’m not too sure but it makes this nice red fruit which is so attractive against the shade of green Evergreen green that you get from the STW strawberry tree I got to throw this girl in she’s not an evergreen but she is so beautiful this is the double flowered red Atomic white nectarine tree she’s just absolutely beautiful the loquat is a subtropical fruiting plant the loquat fruit is about the size almost identical in color and shape to an apricot and the flavor is a lot like an apricot apricot has a Single Seed in it she’ll have a if I remember remember about four seeds this is really a nice Evergreen plant that tolerates Zone 7 it’s got nice big giant leaves glossy green leaves on her it’s just a very attractive plant and a very unusual fruiting plant well I put this girl in a prominent location can you tell she’s right along the main road cuz I want people to see this girl this is a guava it’s an evergreen plant Zone 7 is basically its upper Northern limit for cold weather this year we put a little plastic pupt over it I’m filming a year-long video on how we make those little pup tups work please subscribe to our Channel but anyway very confident that this guava is going to bloom this year and we may get guava fruit this is a truffle bearing oak tree so it’s a oak tree inoculated with I think it’s the bacteria or the fungus that will grow out truffles it’ll take a few years for her to grow truffles what we noticed in the previous winter is uh it did not do very well over winter the leaves were still on it but they look she just looked a little sickly so this year we covered her with these little cheapy pupt tent things it made a difference she looks a lot better this year I’m going to have to give her a little extra water and try to bump up the growth on her and thicken up that stock so she doesn’t need to be covered over winter but she’s an evergreen excuse the mess in the background but these two girls are the Oregon grape and the agarita the Oregon grape is the or is Oregon’s state flower it does make a edible fruit the agita is a very thorny leav plant now the organ grape is also but the agarita takes it to another level it’s like a American Holly on steroids it makes a nice little fruit that’s kind of like a a reddish pinkish type color from what I’ve seen she’s yet to fruit we need to set her free in a full sun location the Oregon grape I’m not too sure if it wants full sun I’ve been working and piddling with that poor thing for a long time she really deserves to be set free in the ground well here at the end of our herb garden we got this Rosemary and this Rosemary is looking absolutely fantastic through the winter young rosemary plants will not survive Zone 7 that’s our experience this was I think planted a 2 gallon pot planted maybe in Spring and she got a running start and since then she’s done just fine winter after winter the aroma coming off of this Rosemary is spectacular and there’s so many benefits to the rosemary plant folks folks ought to integrate Rosemary into much of their culinary into their diet this is a very valuable herb and she’s a true Evergreen these are ink berry they’re not really my number one Fring plant out here but it is another unusual plant to grow in here and that’s why these inkberries are at happy she’s an evergreen that’s the inkberry well we’re going to end this video with two native trees that are absolutely spectacular Evergreens this behind me is a magnolia just amazing at just how beautifully dark green and healthy its leaves are no matter what the winter conditions are this full of snow with the kind of the Green in the background is really truly amazing this is the American Holly and boy is she a full-blown evergreen tree it’s a very slow growing tree it takes a long time for her to get as tall as this one which is at least 30 F feet tall but she tolerates any conditions thrown at her here in zone 7 hey I hope you like this video please hit the like button hit the like button if you didn’t like the video it’s all good please subscribe to our Channel as we stand up this 2 acre exhibition garden and turn our residential home into a home that’s as off- grid as possible using off-the-shelf stuff take care of yourself take care of someone 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