summer_jackel

Sadly, avocado needs a lot of heat and sun to fruit, and my Pacific Northwest climate is pretty much opposite. I think that tree must be about ten years old, though---the frost kills it off every few years (which is about as often as it frosts here), but it comes back every spring. I suspect that the canyon microclimate, which shields from the frost that comes much harder elsewhere close by, allows it to continue existing. That avocado tree is a survivor.