In Colorado, we had only a small lot for our house but we tried to produce as much food as possible: a small garden, chicken eggs, and fruit trees like apples, plums and our huge peach tree. The peach tree in Colorado was a special “Frost Peach” cultivated to be able to withstand the -20 degrees of a Colorado winter and it worked! By the second year after planting it we were overwhelmed with peaches!

So we thought peaches, like apples, pears and strawberries and other fruits that need a cold season, would be something that we could occasionally find in the grocery stores of Puerto Rico, but not something we would be able to grow ourselves. We thought that having a year-round growing season of all sorts of fresh tropical fruits was a good trade, however.

All loaded up

Then one day we were picking up the mattress for our new bedroom set at Sam’s in Mayaguez and stopped at the Home Depot as well. I was looking at all their fruit trees and saw a low-cool peach tree! I am so excited to see how these peaches turn out! Sometimes you really CAN have it all. (Yah, we know we’re weird when our Christmas presents to each other consist of mattresses and peach trees lol)

Low cool peach tree bred for tropical environments

Oh and our bedroom set looks awesome in the cabana. We will probably move it into the wooden house once it is move-in ready, but it has been nice to have a comfortable and nice looking bed to sleep on instead of the roller bed that came with the property when we bought it. We lucked out finding it from one of our new friends here because good-quality furniture is somewhat of a challenge to find in Puerto Rico.

Kitty likes it too!