Pruning in the dormant season is absolutely necessary for trees that form fruit on new wood. Nectarines and peaches are two ...

We definitely have peach tree borers in our nectarine tree. The trunk is pretty much encircled by the sap oozing just above ...

Some pear trees require two different varieties to produce fruit, whereas the nova type doesn’t, producing ‘large, round ... alderman plum trees, mulberry trees and pie cherry trees.

When planning your yardscape, it's tempting to surround a beautiful fruit tree with colorful blooms. But, avoid these flowers ...

for example, sells the fruit for about $6.99 a pound. Likewise, nurseries may offer various cherry plum trees for home-growing ... there are also a large variety of similar shaped and sized ...

While I have access to various fruit trees from a friend’s large orchard, I do have in my garden an apple, plum and a persimmon tree. They take up less space and are more manageable in tighter ...

Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

Most of the trees—apple, pear, peach, plum and cherry—had ... eager to advertise their fruit varieties, original or otherwise. But it was only the large firms that could afford to regularly ...

We continue our April focus on trees with some excellent flowering options and the right places to plant them.

Shay Wahl would be the first to tell you that patience isn’t her strong suit. But she’s working on it through her hobbies.

Although the grand opening of the Arboretum was held on April 20, 1996, we didn’t even know it existed until last December ...