Hey, nice to see a community like this.

We're over in Houston, Texas and bought an approximately 1 year old guava plant (about 3' in height). I read it should have about 10-12 feet spacing from other trees. What about spacing from other small plants? Like shrubbery or some ground cover? I'm trying to accommodate this guava tree in my landscape and I don't want to plant it isolated from everything. Would it be okay to plant it surrounded by some small shrubs, flowers, ground cover?

Same goes for the pear and fig tree I got. What do y'all think?