Growing fruit trees indoors can transform even the coziest corners of your home into a verdant personal orchard. Even better, ...

Leaf miners can make a mess of lemon trees but these simple strategies will limit the damage and keep these pests away.

If traditional garden beds aren't available to you, that doesn't mean you can't grow your own fruits and veggies. Here are ...

The cactus, palms and succulents anchoring yards around the desert can successfully be planted in the heat, but don't wait.

Now, hope is budding on an unlikely branch: a 30-year-old tree named Donaldson, growing on a research farm near Groveland.

Matt Mattia used both hands to flip through the branch at his eye level, studying each side of every leaf as sunlight ...

Checking the farm’s trees — which grow several varieties of oranges and other citrus — is an important task for Shelfer. “There’s still water on the branches there,” Shelfer said.

after detecting the fatal citrus tree disease known as Huanglongbing (HLB), or citrus greening, in two citrus trees in residential neighborhoods in the Valley Center area during regular inspections.

Citrus trees are heavy feeders. They will rapidly exhaust nutrients in the soil around them, especially for those that are grown in containers. And, fertilizing is one of the easiest solutions to keep ...