If, however, your plum tree fails to bear fruit, it can be disappointing and a cause for concern. Plum trees are like any ...

Even with just one large plum tree, the amount of harvest we get is astounding. In a good year, I can easily harvest over 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of fruit from this single large tree.

This is a late-ripening plum with large, red fruit. A Japanese-American cross dating back to 1913, it’s one of the best all-purpose plums for home gardens with big, dependable yields year after ...

He also controls predation from the plum curculio, a snout beetle that’s a major pest of many fruits, not just plums. When the fruit is young and hard, the female uses her snout to wound it and ...

DEAR BETH: The same thing happened to me with some movers and a plum tree. I wouldn’t have minded so much, but they were terrible movers and I didn’t get even one plum from my new tree.

These are actually a few of the plum varieties artist Sam Van Aken worked with while creating his “Tree of 40 Fruit,” which as its name suggests, bears 40 varieties of stone fruit, including ...