You can have a refreshing green space even with a small area. Select fruit plants with great potential to thrive in a pot to ...

Apple, pears and plums are the lowest maintenance fruit trees once established. Besides annual pruning, they're easy to care ...

When planting a fruit tree, most gardeners think of purchasing an Anna apple, August Pride peach, Mission fig or Santa Rosa ...

Large plants inside are the secret to turning your home into a green oasis. Generally a collection of many small plants end up feeling very cluttered and tends to be quite high maintenance. Whereas a ...

Parts of Vancouver Island were recently given a new plant hardiness zone designation — but we're still in a temperate climate, and those cold-tender plants need protection. No. Our climate is ...

A long-standing Hinsdale program has started up again and will continue through April 2026. Residents and visitors to the village are likely to see tree pruning taking place in parts of Hinsdale, ...

Botryosphaeria canker, sometimes called Bot canker, is a common fungal disease that can affect many tree species including ash, eucalyptus, fig, maple, pistachio, and walnut. To confirm Bot canker, ...

WELL, IT APPEARS the rainy fall weather has arrived, which is a good thing. As is seeing snow up in the mountains. As promised last week, I will explain the advantages to several types of root pruning ...

LET’S REVIEW A perfect and a little-known method which is totally appropriate now in the month of October. I have numerous times explained, and rightly so, how pruning at the wrong time of year can ...

It’s about to happen: That one morning in the third or fourth week of October, when you wake up and the air feels different — cool, maybe a bit damp … and you know fall is here. • Cut melons when the ...

Figs have always been one of my favorite fruit trees, and I find there’s something special about having one in the home landscape. These fruit trees provide beauty, shade and a steady supply of ...