Among the most popular and familiar fruit trees for home gardeners are apple and pear trees. Proper pruning and disease management are very important even for just one or two trees. Apple and pear ...

Lisa Taylor Saskatchewan I remember the first time I tried a fresh fig from the grocery store. I was intrigued by its unique ...

From plans for spring harvest to spacing tips to planting basics, there’s a steady stream of tasks to do and things to look ...

Indoor fruit trees can be both practical and beautiful, but not all are equal. One particular type consistently delivers success where others struggle.

Getting the timing wrong is one of the most common mistakes everyone makes when growing fruit trees. Some rush to plant and end up doing it at the wrong time. Others fertilize or water when it does ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Of all the 2450 trees on the City of Sydney’s significant tree register, it is the big old trees like Alexandria Park’s Moreton Bay fig ...

As your summer garden starts to fade, it’s a good time to start planning for next year’s harvest, so why not try something new? Imagine the kinds of fruit you ...

Most backyard pear trees never reach their true potential, not because of poor soil or lack of sunshine, but because of neglect with the shears. Without intervention, branches crowd together, blocking ...

“All major fruit tree species tend to do better with spring planting,” Slack says. But it’s important to work around frost warnings. “Potted trees, if dormant, are fine once the soil thaws,” she adds.

When LAist senior editor Suzanne Levy discovered there was a fig tree in her new backyard, she was thrilled. She didn't realize she'd be sharing its bounty with a tenacious sweet-toothed squirrel. The ...

Because I live in California and because we live in a post-pandemic world, I often work at home, outside in our backyard. It’s a small, modest space — just room for a table and an umbrella pretty much ...

Whilst certain Japanese maple cultivars provide year-round appeal through their graceful forms and diverse leaf tones during spring and summer months, it's during autumn that their foliage genuinely ...