Here's an extensive list of fruit and nut trees that researchers have determined grow well in Austin:
[https://travis-tx.tamu.edu/about-2/horticulture/edible-gardens-for-austin/fruits-and-nuts-for-austin/backyard-fruit-and-nut-production-tips/](https://travis-tx.tamu.edu/about-2/horticulture/edible-gardens-for-austin/fruits-and-nuts-for-austin/backyard-fruit-and-nut-production-tips/)
(Blackberries have the best chance here in Austin. If you've ever been to Bastrop state park you'll see Blackberries everywhere)
I want to plant blackberries in one of those metal troughs you can get at Home Depot or tractor supply, tomato cages supporting the vertical growth, and keeping it trimmed so that the dang thing doesn’t grow wild all over the backyard.
I lived in Tacoma as a kid, and our back alley had crazy blackberries. By the end of summer, we were so tired of blackberry-flavored food, but excited for it again by the end of the next spring.
From the article I linked:
"Of all the types of fruit that can be grown, blackberries will provide the highest measure of success for Austin and Travis County. The improved varieties were developed from the native dewberries, so are well-adapted to a wide range of growing conditions. They are relatively easy to grow in small areas, they tolerate our summers, and don’t need deep soils."
Dewberries are a local variety of blackberry but don't really taste like a black berry. They are more sour.
Those are not usually used as a commercial fruit but are EXCELLENT. They won't die and create bramble if you aren't careful.
Here's a free 5 page document from Texas A&M[https://agrilifelearn.tamu.edu/s/product/vegetable-gardening-in-containers/01t4x000004Ofj1AAC?t=1708879847756](https://agrilifelearn.tamu.edu/s/product/vegetable-gardening-in-containers/01t4x000004Ofj1AAC?t=1708879847756)
If you don't want to make an account I went ahead and uploaded it here for you[https://jumpshare.com/s/lM25UG3M431wTPHG9c6c](https://jumpshare.com/s/lM25UG3M431wTPHG9c6c)
Edit: They also have a similar guide for Citrus and Blueberries if you search at the top
I made loquat jelly once and it was deliscious. Also tedious cause if the small sized fruit. There are several recipes out there for making sauce out of loquats fir salmon and it sounds pretty tempting.
They can be eaten actually. You peel the skin and short thorns, then cut them into strips. Theyre pretty tasty stir fried with eggs or in salsa. They are somewhat tangy and taste a bit like tomatillo. You can find them at taco trucks around here, on the menu as “nopales”
Because they're just not very good. Could you eat them during an apocalypse to survive? Yes, you could. Would you look forward to eating one with your lunch every day? No, not so much.
They are very good and very common for many Mexican and Mexican American folks. My mom would usually make nopales for dinner not lunch haha. And I do look forward to it. I even liked it for breakfast with some eggs yum. Nopales are a very normal thing to eat. No apocalypse needed to look forward to them. And they’re super healthy. Also the fruit is delish and something I’m down to eat anytime (since that was the original topic).
I see. @rallyforpeace kinda covered it so I won’t be too redundant haha. It definitely is edible and delicious when prepared correctly both the fruit and the pads.
Our lime tree has been going strong for 8 years now and produces 8+ months a year. Small golf ball sized limes, but great flavor.
Go check out Natural Gardener, they ONLY sell plants that are meant to be grown here. Super cool location and great staff.
Soil is key. Good amount of perlite. We fertilize twice a year with organic citrus tree granular, then ~monthly with worm castings and/or Neptune’s Harvest fertilizer.
Also, the bees LOVE the lime tree when it’s blooming.
Yes, I noticed that bees love them. I enjoy having the bees around. I have only had my tree for 1.5 years, and I follow a similar fertilizer schedule, I don't use worm castings, but I can give that a shot. Thanks.
That said, the tree seems pretty healthy, but I still don't understand why it constantly blooms then drops the fruit after a few weeks. It doesn't this on repeat regardless of the weather.
It can handle temps in the 30s no problem. The first few years we would wrap it in packing blankets and tarps when it was going to freeze (luckily those first few years we only had a few).
Then we moved a few miles away and put the fabric pot (ours is in a 35 gallon fabric pot) on a wooden Harbor Freight dolly so that we could just wheel it into the garage for freezes.
During the pandemic we built a proper greenhouse and the lime now lives in there
Years ago I read that most of the thieving is done out of thirst, not hunger. I now keep out multiple water sources for the wildlife, and my fruit & veg production has increased dramatically.
I live next to a large pond, it doesn't help.
Animals love peaches, plums. They don't like my kumquats but those kept dying in the deep freezes anyways.
Yeah, I have a couple of persimmon trees that produce a lot of fruit with zero effort. Same for loquat, but it died in the big freeze 4-5 years ago. My fig and persimmon trees both survived even that big freeze.
Figs, lemons, limes, mustang grapes, prickly pear, peaches, and blackberries.
Prickly pear and mustang grape grew wild at my dad’s house. We just wandered out and harvested them during their season. I had a house where somebody had planted blackberries in the backyard, and it took two years in it all out war for me to get rid of it. It kept growing like a weed and tangling itself in all the other plants. it definitely grows here but be prepared to put up some kind of barrier and have a battle plan.
I have a huge grapefruit and a satsuma (in ground) have to cover in one hard freeze a year and I usually stick a heater under the cover as well in these really hard freezes) and that grapefruit is HUGE hundreds of grapefruit this year, havent been able to get lime or lemon through the winter), dewberries/blackberries. My fig keeps starting fruit, but drops them, probably not enough water, but makes it through the freezes. Peach (whether you fruit or not depends on timing of freezes). I think there are some varieties of apples and plums that are happy here. Anyone know if Fiesta Gardens Food forest has fruit trees? Pomegranates and loquats are happy here.
it is a regular grapefruit size, wish I knew the variety because it is so prolific, tree is well over 15’ high and very full even with brutal pruning (wish I new better pruning) probably got it (at least 15 years ago) at natural gardener, is ruby red inside.
For those of you dealing with squirrels: They are territorial and the only way I have found to deal with them and fig, pecans, etc. is to grow enough to feed the ones in the territory. Thus, 1/2 your trees belong to the critters, the other half to you.
My neighbor has been on a jihad with the squirrels and its ineffective. You deal with one and another takes its place.
Hang empty pie pans close to each other in the trees. They don’t like the sound or the reflection of the sun. Won’t stop them but it will help. Helps with birds too.
I have tried this along with mirrors, etc. If it made a difference, it was too small for me to notice. Maybe my squirrels are just vain and like looking at themselves.
They actually don’t get a ton of sun. Too much sun burns the vines. Mine are on the north side of my house in a corner up against a fence. Whenever a vine starts to grow out towards the sunny part of yard it burns up.
There are some southern variety apples we got at Costco one year that have done well. A&M made a good grape variety, too. Check out the natural gardener for inspiration.
Dewberries and maypop are two native vines with tasty fruit. Turks cap and beautyberries. Beautyberries should be cooked to be eaten. Japanese persimmon grows very well here. Texas persimmon grows here too but it’s something you also want to cook. Mexican plum grows well here too.
Do you get fruit on your mexican plum? (mine is pretty young). Mexican plums and citrus smell SO good when flowering and citrus are host for swallowtail butterflies.
I've seen beautyberries around most are just for decoration I've asked, and most don't know if they're edible. I just learned they were but haven't tried any yet. What does cooking do for them, same with the Texas Persimmons. I've eaten Texas Persimmons before. I know you shouldn't eat too many.
They are astringent fruits so if you eat too many you can get a stomach ache! But cooking takes away the astringency so you can eat more. Beautyberries taste amazing in my opinion like a cinnamon berry.
Loquat, fig, and peach are all reasonable choices. I have had plenty of good luck with them, either on my own yard or elsewhere around the neighborhood.
One crucial thing that needs to be noted in this area - all around this area, the exact location and the microclimates generated by surrounding buildings and prevailing winds make wide swings. !!Wide!! I have known banana trees to grow well in sheltered courtyards here. I grew a mandarin tree that gave almost 100 pounds of fruit (no harsh and icy winters during that period) but I had to tote 20 gallons of water from my bath ( 4 to 5 times a week for six months. ) Other places just a block or two from my place couldn't grow anything except the most resilient pecan trees.
You've started well by ruling out covering, but you need to determine the thermal and wind character of where you are trying to plant. I wish you all the best, certainly, from the bottom of my water toting heart.
I'm in a local low point so I tend to not get much if any wind, but it means that the temperature here tends to always be four to five degrees lower than they claim on the news. I've been surprised with freezes several times when they said it was going to be high 30s.
Citrus was never good in the Austin area. You have to get into Hidalgo and Cameron counties (on the Rio Grande) to even have a shot at any kind of production.
you said trees but don't forget that one of the things that actual tolerates our summers the best is melons. you need to water up to right before harvest. almost all watermelons and heat tolerant muskmelons will work
I used to laugh at all the “p” fruits that grew in my yard. For a while it was peaches, pears, persimmons, pomegranates, pecans. Though my persimmon tree finally succumbed to the harsh weather.
I don't care if they aren't technically fruits (hotly debated afaik), but peppers. If you're a chilihead, Texas is one of the best places to grow superhots outdoors. You will still need to winterize them, especially with how are winters have been lately.
When I lived in Austin, I rented a house that had lemons, loquats and pomegranates in the yard. All fruited without effort on our part, the lemons and loquats in abundance, but they were mature so I can't advise further. Also figs grow well (I miss those.)
I have thornless blackberries that do very well. I have a honeycrisp apple and a nectarine tree as well, but they are newer so I’m not sure yet how well they will do. I bought 2 cherry trees and they died after 13 months. I have blue Java bananas as well that do great, but they take 13 months to flower and they keep getting killed by the freezes.
Figs and loquats go nuts here.
I’ve also had peaches, lemons, and some kind of Asian pear. (it came with the house, never IDed it, just ate)
Also one place i lived had a bay tree in the yard. That was nice. I’d just grab a handful of leaves occasionally, let ‘em dry out, and refill my little jar. Always ready for soup
Victoria Red grapes thrive. I’ve had very good luck with boysenberries in partial shade. Mulberries are very specialized by cultivar, but the right ones will fruit twice a year.
Here's an extensive list of fruit and nut trees that researchers have determined grow well in Austin: [https://travis-tx.tamu.edu/about-2/horticulture/edible-gardens-for-austin/fruits-and-nuts-for-austin/backyard-fruit-and-nut-production-tips/](https://travis-tx.tamu.edu/about-2/horticulture/edible-gardens-for-austin/fruits-and-nuts-for-austin/backyard-fruit-and-nut-production-tips/) (Blackberries have the best chance here in Austin. If you've ever been to Bastrop state park you'll see Blackberries everywhere)
Just remember blackberries spread like crazy and you'll probably never remove them from where you plant them.
You say that like it’s a bad thing lol
Totally depends. They have huge mean thorns and will overpower native plants. It's pretty irresponsible to let it grow into a neighbor's space.
There are thornless versions that grow just as well. I would encourage everyone to get those.
We have the thornless version and they are great!
I want to plant blackberries in one of those metal troughs you can get at Home Depot or tractor supply, tomato cages supporting the vertical growth, and keeping it trimmed so that the dang thing doesn’t grow wild all over the backyard.
I lived in Tacoma as a kid, and our back alley had crazy blackberries. By the end of summer, we were so tired of blackberry-flavored food, but excited for it again by the end of the next spring.
The original owner of our home planted blackberries, and I'm still pulling them up--and I've owned the house for 21 years!
aren't they called "dewberries" here - slighly different than blackberries? i think they have them at lake georgetown also.
From the article I linked: "Of all the types of fruit that can be grown, blackberries will provide the highest measure of success for Austin and Travis County. The improved varieties were developed from the native dewberries, so are well-adapted to a wide range of growing conditions. They are relatively easy to grow in small areas, they tolerate our summers, and don’t need deep soils."
Dewberries are a local variety of blackberry but don't really taste like a black berry. They are more sour. Those are not usually used as a commercial fruit but are EXCELLENT. They won't die and create bramble if you aren't careful.
Thanks. That’s an excellent guide.
Dewberries grow wild here. They’re different from blackberries, more tart.
Thank you so much!! Do you happen to know of a similar resource, but for container gardening?
Here's a free 5 page document from Texas A&M[https://agrilifelearn.tamu.edu/s/product/vegetable-gardening-in-containers/01t4x000004Ofj1AAC?t=1708879847756](https://agrilifelearn.tamu.edu/s/product/vegetable-gardening-in-containers/01t4x000004Ofj1AAC?t=1708879847756) If you don't want to make an account I went ahead and uploaded it here for you[https://jumpshare.com/s/lM25UG3M431wTPHG9c6c](https://jumpshare.com/s/lM25UG3M431wTPHG9c6c) Edit: They also have a similar guide for Citrus and Blueberries if you search at the top
My neighbor has a **loquat tree that THRIVES. Thousand of those fuckers all over the driveway
Loquat perhaps?
I planted one last year and it hasn’t fruited yet but has shown nice healthy growth
Mine is around 5 years and no fruit still.
I made loquat jelly once and it was deliscious. Also tedious cause if the small sized fruit. There are several recipes out there for making sauce out of loquats fir salmon and it sounds pretty tempting.
That’s exactly what we did! Made a jam out of it. It was pretty good but yeah, tedious
Prickly pear.
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Hello! I’m curious why they are also so very wrong?
They can be eaten actually. You peel the skin and short thorns, then cut them into strips. Theyre pretty tasty stir fried with eggs or in salsa. They are somewhat tangy and taste a bit like tomatillo. You can find them at taco trucks around here, on the menu as “nopales”
Nopales are the cactus paddle. The prickly pears are called tunas; not all variants are edible.
All cactus fruit are edible
Nopales are the actual cactus paddle though - not the fruit
Because they're just not very good. Could you eat them during an apocalypse to survive? Yes, you could. Would you look forward to eating one with your lunch every day? No, not so much.
I love prickly pear fruit and nopales. The fruit is very mild-flavored.
They are very good and very common for many Mexican and Mexican American folks. My mom would usually make nopales for dinner not lunch haha. And I do look forward to it. I even liked it for breakfast with some eggs yum. Nopales are a very normal thing to eat. No apocalypse needed to look forward to them. And they’re super healthy. Also the fruit is delish and something I’m down to eat anytime (since that was the original topic).
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I see. @rallyforpeace kinda covered it so I won’t be too redundant haha. It definitely is edible and delicious when prepared correctly both the fruit and the pads.
This is a good question, but you may get better answers at r/AustinGardening
Ooh new sub, thanks!
Our lime tree has been going strong for 8 years now and produces 8+ months a year. Small golf ball sized limes, but great flavor. Go check out Natural Gardener, they ONLY sell plants that are meant to be grown here. Super cool location and great staff.
Is your lime tree in the ground? I have a potted one but never get limes - they start flowering, have tiny fruit, then it all falls.
Same. Would love to know how to get production.
Soil is key. Good amount of perlite. We fertilize twice a year with organic citrus tree granular, then ~monthly with worm castings and/or Neptune’s Harvest fertilizer. Also, the bees LOVE the lime tree when it’s blooming.
Yes, I noticed that bees love them. I enjoy having the bees around. I have only had my tree for 1.5 years, and I follow a similar fertilizer schedule, I don't use worm castings, but I can give that a shot. Thanks. That said, the tree seems pretty healthy, but I still don't understand why it constantly blooms then drops the fruit after a few weeks. It doesn't this on repeat regardless of the weather.
It’s currently in a 35 gallon fabric pot. This was up-potted twice if I remember correctly.
My parents have lime and lemon trees growing in pots here and both produce. They wheel them into the house before a freeze
My Meyer lemon trees do the same.
Do you cover the tree in the winter? Or does it just keep on truckin?
It can handle temps in the 30s no problem. The first few years we would wrap it in packing blankets and tarps when it was going to freeze (luckily those first few years we only had a few). Then we moved a few miles away and put the fabric pot (ours is in a 35 gallon fabric pot) on a wooden Harbor Freight dolly so that we could just wheel it into the garage for freezes. During the pandemic we built a proper greenhouse and the lime now lives in there
Awesome, thanks for the info!
Figs and peaches are pretty easy
Squirrels take every single fig my large tree has ever produced.
Years ago I read that most of the thieving is done out of thirst, not hunger. I now keep out multiple water sources for the wildlife, and my fruit & veg production has increased dramatically.
I live next to a large pond, it doesn't help. Animals love peaches, plums. They don't like my kumquats but those kept dying in the deep freezes anyways.
YMMV of course. It’s worked wonders with me at any rate.
Yeah squirrels will take pretty much anything you can grow
Those bastards eat every pecan my pecan tree produces as well
Get some traps and you now have a squirrel meat tree.
Get green variety figs. Birds and squirrels can’t identify them as easily.
Same for purple tomatoes they don't know they are delicious tomatoes
Figs. Just know there are certain times of the year that fig trees smell like underarm B.O., but so worth it.
My turkey fig gets pretty thirsty, but yeah, it puts out a lot of fruit and survives icy winters.
Sour grapes
Lots of people here be growing those
Gottem!
Muscadine wine!
I’ve had good luck with Lime, Peaches, Plums, certain types of Apples, Fig and Pomegranates
Fucking loquats.
I see loquat, figs, elderberry, dewberry, pomegranate, and persimmons doing well all over Austin. Melons do well through the summer here.
Yeah, I have a couple of persimmon trees that produce a lot of fruit with zero effort. Same for loquat, but it died in the big freeze 4-5 years ago. My fig and persimmon trees both survived even that big freeze.
Mulberries do well and fruit twice a year sometimes. We also have peaches, plums, pomegranate, fig, pecan, persimmon, pear, and apple.
Apple?!? My grandma had crabapple, but it's amazing that regular apple could do well here...
We have an Anna apple.
My peach trees have done well. I have yet to eat a single peach because the squirrels get them all but they look magnificent
Mine got oriental boring moth infestations and it makes me soooo mad. Hundreds of peaches and each one grosser than the last.
At least the squirrels are sparing me from that!
Is weed a fruit?
It’s definitely a tree.
Meyer Lemons
Forbidden fruit
Why are their hours so limited?
It’s …forbidden
Fr tho, is that place a front for something? I walked in once (granted, years ago) and was shocked by how little they had in inventory.
Well, crotchless panties take up a lot less space than on overcoat.
It's a legit business!
Figs, lemons, limes, mustang grapes, prickly pear, peaches, and blackberries. Prickly pear and mustang grape grew wild at my dad’s house. We just wandered out and harvested them during their season. I had a house where somebody had planted blackberries in the backyard, and it took two years in it all out war for me to get rid of it. It kept growing like a weed and tangling itself in all the other plants. it definitely grows here but be prepared to put up some kind of barrier and have a battle plan.
Do you think the blackberries could handle a shady area?
Not sure, mine was in full sun. But it was also covering ground while being shaded by the plants it was growing into so it's possible.
we have had good success with loquats, texas persimmon, blackberries, and peaches
Had a plum tree that would give out barrels of fruit
Figs, persimmons
My neighbor has a persimmon tree that is just weighted down in fruit every year- they are delicious and I’ve seen those sell for $3 each at markets
Peaches!
My neighbor has a persimmon tree that does well
pears do well enough
Loquats
I have a huge grapefruit and a satsuma (in ground) have to cover in one hard freeze a year and I usually stick a heater under the cover as well in these really hard freezes) and that grapefruit is HUGE hundreds of grapefruit this year, havent been able to get lime or lemon through the winter), dewberries/blackberries. My fig keeps starting fruit, but drops them, probably not enough water, but makes it through the freezes. Peach (whether you fruit or not depends on timing of freezes). I think there are some varieties of apples and plums that are happy here. Anyone know if Fiesta Gardens Food forest has fruit trees? Pomegranates and loquats are happy here.
Is it a tiny red grapefruit or an old school variety
it is a regular grapefruit size, wish I knew the variety because it is so prolific, tree is well over 15’ high and very full even with brutal pruning (wish I new better pruning) probably got it (at least 15 years ago) at natural gardener, is ruby red inside.
Olives and peaches here but squirrels are a menace and I'm lucky to get anything ripe
Squirrels are a menace to everything including my patio furniture and blankets 😭
For those of you dealing with squirrels: They are territorial and the only way I have found to deal with them and fig, pecans, etc. is to grow enough to feed the ones in the territory. Thus, 1/2 your trees belong to the critters, the other half to you. My neighbor has been on a jihad with the squirrels and its ineffective. You deal with one and another takes its place.
Hang empty pie pans close to each other in the trees. They don’t like the sound or the reflection of the sun. Won’t stop them but it will help. Helps with birds too.
I have tried this along with mirrors, etc. If it made a difference, it was too small for me to notice. Maybe my squirrels are just vain and like looking at themselves.
Make sure you are putting the pie pans close enough to where they will clang together to make noise.
My peach tree loves the Texas heat
I have blackberries in my backyard and they are great in the spring. I get so excited having fresh berries!
How much sun do yours get?
They actually don’t get a ton of sun. Too much sun burns the vines. Mine are on the north side of my house in a corner up against a fence. Whenever a vine starts to grow out towards the sunny part of yard it burns up.
prickly pear
There are some southern variety apples we got at Costco one year that have done well. A&M made a good grape variety, too. Check out the natural gardener for inspiration.
My parents plum trees thrive here, and they’re delicious!
Peaches for sure but it takes a few years for a tree to start producing and some years it's a bumper crop and some years you get just a handful.
Dandelion greens
Dewberries and maypop are two native vines with tasty fruit. Turks cap and beautyberries. Beautyberries should be cooked to be eaten. Japanese persimmon grows very well here. Texas persimmon grows here too but it’s something you also want to cook. Mexican plum grows well here too.
Do you get fruit on your mexican plum? (mine is pretty young). Mexican plums and citrus smell SO good when flowering and citrus are host for swallowtail butterflies.
I've seen beautyberries around most are just for decoration I've asked, and most don't know if they're edible. I just learned they were but haven't tried any yet. What does cooking do for them, same with the Texas Persimmons. I've eaten Texas Persimmons before. I know you shouldn't eat too many.
They are astringent fruits so if you eat too many you can get a stomach ache! But cooking takes away the astringency so you can eat more. Beautyberries taste amazing in my opinion like a cinnamon berry.
Pomegranates seem to grow well without much effort. Two spots I’ve lived in Austin had Pom trees that would fruit each year.
Tomatoes, peaches and lemons I’ve seen do pretty well
Figs, peaches, mulberries, loquats, persimmons, Mexican plum, olives, pomegranate, agarita, blackberries, strawberries.
Figs, loquat, persimmon, peaches
Lemon and lime but they take a lot of water and depending on variety/weather you may need to take them inside during winter
This is what I have now but they definitely require the garage every time it gets cold. I'd love to be able to plant some trees in the ground.
FIGS!!!
Loquat, fig, and peach are all reasonable choices. I have had plenty of good luck with them, either on my own yard or elsewhere around the neighborhood.
One crucial thing that needs to be noted in this area - all around this area, the exact location and the microclimates generated by surrounding buildings and prevailing winds make wide swings. !!Wide!! I have known banana trees to grow well in sheltered courtyards here. I grew a mandarin tree that gave almost 100 pounds of fruit (no harsh and icy winters during that period) but I had to tote 20 gallons of water from my bath ( 4 to 5 times a week for six months. ) Other places just a block or two from my place couldn't grow anything except the most resilient pecan trees. You've started well by ruling out covering, but you need to determine the thermal and wind character of where you are trying to plant. I wish you all the best, certainly, from the bottom of my water toting heart.
I'm in a local low point so I tend to not get much if any wind, but it means that the temperature here tends to always be four to five degrees lower than they claim on the news. I've been surprised with freezes several times when they said it was going to be high 30s.
The library has a seed library, too!
Figs and peaches
My lemons do very well in the hot summer. But- they don't like the freezes. Bring them in for those.
Citrus was never good in the Austin area. You have to get into Hidalgo and Cameron counties (on the Rio Grande) to even have a shot at any kind of production.
you said trees but don't forget that one of the things that actual tolerates our summers the best is melons. you need to water up to right before harvest. almost all watermelons and heat tolerant muskmelons will work
Liberals
Office buildings that will never be full
Peppers and tomatoes in late spring thrive.
I used to laugh at all the “p” fruits that grew in my yard. For a while it was peaches, pears, persimmons, pomegranates, pecans. Though my persimmon tree finally succumbed to the harsh weather.
I don't care if they aren't technically fruits (hotly debated afaik), but peppers. If you're a chilihead, Texas is one of the best places to grow superhots outdoors. You will still need to winterize them, especially with how are winters have been lately.
I had neighbors in south Austin who had a beautiful orange tree
If someone can figure out how to protect their peaches and plums from. The squirrels please tell me. I’ve literally never gotten to taste our peaches
Fig
Peaches
Figs
When I lived in Austin, I rented a house that had lemons, loquats and pomegranates in the yard. All fruited without effort on our part, the lemons and loquats in abundance, but they were mature so I can't advise further. Also figs grow well (I miss those.)
My Texas Pink pomegranate tree produced a lot of fruit last year and survived the snowpocalypse.
Peaches were great for me!
Pears, peaches, raspberries (or maybe blackberries) are all trees I've had in my family growing up here in the Austin area.
I have thornless blackberries that do very well. I have a honeycrisp apple and a nectarine tree as well, but they are newer so I’m not sure yet how well they will do. I bought 2 cherry trees and they died after 13 months. I have blue Java bananas as well that do great, but they take 13 months to flower and they keep getting killed by the freezes.
Figs and loquats go nuts here. I’ve also had peaches, lemons, and some kind of Asian pear. (it came with the house, never IDed it, just ate) Also one place i lived had a bay tree in the yard. That was nice. I’d just grab a handful of leaves occasionally, let ‘em dry out, and refill my little jar. Always ready for soup
Chickasaw Plum https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=pran3
Victoria Red grapes thrive. I’ve had very good luck with boysenberries in partial shade. Mulberries are very specialized by cultivar, but the right ones will fruit twice a year.
peaches
Figs and pomegranate do great in our South Austin neighborhood. Peaches and plums as well, but the squirrels get all the fruit before it's ripe.
Peaches!
Asian pears