Generally when people think of color in ornamental plants, their focus goes immediately to flowers. However, on many woody plants, the fruit may also add color and multi-seasonal interest.

Some dioecious plants like holly need both a male and a female plant to have fruit develop on the female. You need two different cultivars of crabapples (or fruiting apple trees) in the vicinity to produce fruit. This is generally not a problem in urban and suburban areas where almost every lot has at least one crabapple tree.

Here are some commonly grown landscape plants known for their showy fruit: