To round out my West Coast to East Coast Nursery tours I finally made it to South Florida to hit Pine Island Nursery, Excalibur Fruit Tree Nursery, Robert is Here Fruit Stand, and the Fruit and Spice Park.
First stop was Robert is Here Fruit Stand where all kinds of rare fruit is for sale. I stocked up on some Ciruelas, Apple Banana, Guayabana , lychees, and canistel.
Robert is Here Fruit Stand
Next was Excalibur Fruit Tree Nursery. They have a lot of rare fruit trees for sale and one tree that I was wanting to see was actually a citrus tree. They are the only ones that I know that have the Red Lime. There were fruits on their trees but were just starting to color.
Red Lime trees
The Fruit and Spice Park is the place to see for those who are into fruit trees. Here you can see all kinds of mature fruit tree plantings and even taste the fruit (if it is on the ground) and keep the seeds. I met up with Ohiojay, and a few others from the Tropical Fruit Forum (Plummy, Eldys, and Lycheeluva). It was blazing hot but lots of fun.
The day that we went there were many local vendors there with plants and fruits for sale.
LycheesOnline.com
Going Bananas Nursery
Robert is Here even had a stand at the Fruit and Spice Park
I have bought many trees by mail through Pine Island Nursery and was curious to see it in person. This nursery was very organized and had great plant stock. I couldn't leave without buying another Santol, Caimito and Wax Jambu.
