When to Prune Apple Trees . The best time to prune an apple tree is during late winter or early spring after the fruit has ...

Pruning an apple tree can seem like a daunting task if you have never done it before. Like most other skills, you start out slowly learning the basics to help build confidence.

The apples from that tree will not be the same as the apple from which you retrieved the seeds. There isn't much you can do about it, either. The problem lies with the way apple trees reproduce.

But, in “Blooming Apple Tree” (1912), all the lines are the same thickness. The scaling is gone, and with it, the tree. Before reading the title, most viewers would not guess that this is a ...

Winter pruning is a deceptively simple concept: while an apple tree is dormant, a gardener prunes her trees by cutting off, or heading, some of a branch’s recent growth.

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie our ability to recognize artworks as depictions of trees.