Even in the coldest months, some fruit trees can thrive year-round in a glass enclosure. Controlled environments like ...

Q: My Meyer lemon has done well over the years. I protect it when it gets very cold. It has produced fruit regularly each year. My peach tree is about 30 feet away. The lemon is covered in bees, but ...

Q: Have you seen a reduction in the fruit of plums and pluots this year? My trees are three to five years old, and I did not see many flowers on them this spring. Not a lack of pollination, but a lack ...

For March birthdays, the birth month fruit tree is plum. As spring starts to arrive, plum trees become adorned with dainty ...

Fruit trees start appearing at garden centers in January and gardeners who wish to pick fresh produce from the backyard are among the first to purchase trees. One thing most gardeners don’t realize is ...

With spring finally here in Ohio, you may have noticed those trees with the white flowers are already blooming on your street or at the local park. But starting next year, expect to see fewer of them.

HAMMOND — Loquat, frequently called Japanese plum, is an attractive small tree or shrub that is frequently planted in landscapes as an ornamental in Louisiana. The tree has large thick evergreen ...

Q. My flowering plum has made fruit this year. I have been here five years and this tree never made fruit before. I thought it was for flowering only and would not make fruit. Why did it make fruit ...

Pruning is a huge subject because of the immense number and kinds of plants. So let’s focus on woody flowering ornamentals and fruit trees. Ornamental woody plants that flower on old wood Prune after ...

True confession. Until this week, I had tasted persimmons only once, in 1984, when a colleague gave me a persimmon grown in the orchard on the former Texas Tech horticulture farm (now the 18th hole of ...

Eriobotrya Japonica, commonly called loquat, is a small evergreen tree that attains a height of about 21 feet. It’s a rather symmetrical tree with compact, round crown. Its leaves are 8 to 12 inches, ...

There's little as rewarding as eating homegrown fruit. The good news: Many varieties — like mulberry and lemon trees — don't require a large backyard to flourish. While it's true that some fruit trees ...