Gardeners have been told to 'leave a dead tree in situ' and not to tidy up their gardens, as experts reveal the ways in which ...

Growers install netting primarily to protect fruit, but the move also saves a lot of water. Hannes Laubscher of United Exports estimated the savings at 15 percent. It allows them to cut back on ...

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of ...

The best time to plant bare-root fruit trees like apples is towards the end of winter or the first half of spring, once the ground is no longer frozen so it can be easily dug, ...

The call of the wild overwhelmed me in January. I gave every tree and shrub in our yard a haircut, a rainy season task that ...

Hortgro announces its second annual “Plum Possibilities” consumer-facing sweepstakes to shoppers in the United States.

The only thing you can do catastrophically wrong is to remove all the 2-year-old wood on apples, pears, and European plums.

Held annually each February, the Odawara Plum Blossom Festival is a seasonal highlight in Kanagawa Prefecture. This festival ...

The first step to quickly transforming your yard into an orchard is selecting trees that fruit between one and five years.

Cut branches forced into bloom can help add sunshine to those gloomy winter days and it is not hard to coax many into flower. Branches from cherry, plum, forsythia, apple, ...

The out-of-this-world ride at the "Most Magical Place on Earth" just turned 50, and my family got a front row seat to the park's festivities and affordable options ...

I sat down with Russell Norton a horticulture and agriculture educator with the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension and started by asking him: why do we prune?