![]() “There are literally hundreds of varieties that originated in Southern California,” said Tom Spellman, southwestern sales manager for Dave Wilson’s Nursery, which grows more than 13 million fruit and nut trees per year to sell to both to orchards and commercial nurseries. Even popular varieties of apple just kind of developed on their own here. ![]() Plenty of fruit trees grow well in Southern California, and many were developed here, from the citrus plants cultivated as part of UC Riverside’s Citrus Variety Collection to the low-winter chill peaches bred at Chaffey College. ![]() By now, you’ve presumably named all your houseplants and already started your winter vegetable garden, so you might be thinking of broadening your horizons: Like say, getting a fruit tree? ![]() With the novel coronavirus keeping everyone stuck at home, 2020 has been a year of gardening and house plant accumulation for many of us. ![]()
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