Avocado trees, Persea americana, are tender trees that are native to equatorial regions in Central and South America, including Mexico and Costa Rica. They are typically grown in warmer zones or ...

Avocado trees are sunshine worshippers, growing only in USDA Hardiness Zones 8 through 11 and in loose, sandy soil. You can grow them from seed (i.e., the pit) or a cutting. Remove the seed from ...

While the Trump administration has threatened tariffs on a spate of Mexican goods, avocados have so far been spared.

Despite the issues with cold hardiness, avocado trees do produce fruit in southeast Louisiana in hardiness zone 9. There are generally enough years between these catastrophic occasional freezes to ...