Fruit trees can be one of the most rewarding additions to your garden. A well-cared-for, mature apple tree can yield between ...

One or two roots is all you need, and the plants will live for decades. Lastly, fruit trees have a place in a small garden. Most nurseries will carry dwarf or columnar trees that stay within bounds.

There are three major types of diseases that affect blue spruce trees: needlecasts, tip blights, and canker diseases. The two ...

A plant perfect for a pollinator garden and a privacy hedge is the best of both worlds. That's what you get with this ...

Large, green, drape-like leaves on tall trunks make banana plants an important ... do not produce edible fruit. The dwarf banana (Musa ornata) produces upright spikes of small flowers with ...

An espalier can be any woody plant that is trained and pruned to grow against a wall, fence or trellis. Question: I want to plant fruit trees but I have a very small yard. Would you recommend an ...

Tall trees and shrubs can overshadow single story homes and make small yards ... edible fruit, which needs to be cooked before eating. Weeping cherries are true statement plants with long ...

(Lynn Ketchum) Heat-loving squash and cucumber plants will take ... lead to a loss of the whole fruit." Gardeners can pollinate the flowers themselves with a small watercolor paintbrush to lightly ...

MacCubbin gives Florida gardening advice about daylilies, magnolias, shell gingers, zoysia, Meyer lemons, hydrangea and ...

They are the berries of potato plants that just resemble small, green cherry tomatoes. The skin of the fruit normally stays green and leathery - it doesn’t colour. DON'T MISS... Giant hogweed ...

There is a small plant with shiny green leaves and yellow flowers that seems to be taking over sections of my garden, and is even growing in the lawn. It disappears later in spring. What is this ...