Drought-tolerant loquat trees offer up a variety of good qualities

Imagine a seed that sprouts in your garden without invitation, and within a few years, it reaches a height of 10 feet and produces 30 pounds of edible fruit. The fruit is yellow-orange with the texture of an apricot. Its taste is sweet to tart but always unpredictable. After all, fruit from a seedling tree is like Forrest Gump’s proverbial box of chocolates since “you never know what you’re gonna get.”

It’s always useful to keep in mind that when we buy a certain variety of fruit tree we...