Given the record-breaking September/October (2023) that Brisbane has experienced this year, it has been interesting to see which fruit trees have handled the dry conditions better than others. Of course the success of your crops will depend on a range of factors, drought hardiness being only one of them, but here on our properties in the Mount Crosby area the stand out performers in the dry conditions have been the native elderberry, wampi, acerola cherry, pineapple, black sapote, peanut butter bushes, miracle fruit, cumquat, macadamia, pink fruited lime berry, finger lime, loquat and with a little supplemental watering, surprisingly the tamarillos. If you are choosing fruiting plants for the changing climate then you might like to consider adding these to the mix.