Garden Scheme
Guava
Psidium guajava
Tropical evergreen shrub with fragrant fruit; needs full sun and frost protection in most US.
Sunlight
Full Sun
Water
Regular
USDA zones
9–11
Planning spacing
15 ft
Typical mature size
15 ft tall, 15 ft wide
Typical bloom
Late spring to early summer
Guava spacing and mature footprint
Space Guava 15 ft apart, measured center to center (4.6 m).
The mature spread is about 15 ft (4.6 m), so neighboring plants just meet at maturity without crowding.
Treat 15 ft as a planning baseline — cultivar and local growing conditions shift the final footprint.
Growing facts
- Botanical name
- Psidium guajava
- Type
- Fruit Tree
- Category
- Fruit Trees
- Lifecycle
- perennial
- USDA hardiness zones
- 9–11
- Sunlight
- Full Sun
- Water
- Regular
- Planning spacing
- 15 ft
- Typical mature size
- 15 ft tall, 15 ft wide
- Typical bloom season
- Late spring to early summer
- Typical harvest season
- Late summer to fall