It's not easy growing fruit trees and bushes in pots. Here's why... along with tips on how to sidestep nine potential ...

Laura Dean Bennett Staff Writer The spring equinox has come and gone and, according to the calendar, it’s spring. But there’s a skiff of snow on the porch as I write this and still a slew of juncos ...

Growing dwarf apple trees in the backyard & protecting from pests by netting. This variety is the Golden Dorset and I also conduct a taste test after harvesting the fruit. -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Please watch ...

“Super soppy [spots] are a bad place to put a fruit tree," says Graham Savio, the Cornell Cooperative Extension's agriculture ...

Apple trees and crabapple trees are closely related - it's in the name, after all - but you can tell them apart based on a ...

Those who live in cold climates know how tough it is to find a fruit tree that will withstand bitter temps, but we found an ...

Growing an apple tree is a great way to enjoy delicious, fresh fruit from the comfort of your own home. Once these plants reach maturity, they can produce hundreds of apples per year—so you'll ...

but many fruit trees, like apples and pears, rely on cross-pollination for genetic diversity. Cross-pollination, or pollen shared from more than one variety of the same plant, can happen via birds, ...

Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, shining over the Sycamore Gap tree, on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, England, July 3, 2016. (Owen Humphreys/PA via AP, File) LONDON (AP) — It took well over a ...

You know how to grow and care for your apple tree and now you're ready to reap the best part — the fruit. But apples do not bloom all year long and sometimes things happen, like weather or even pests.

NORWALK, Conn. — The Norwalk Common Council adopted the city’s first-ever Tree Master Plan on April 22, setting a 30-year goal to increase canopy coverage from 43% to 53% through a data-driven, equity ...

which required retaining 25% tree coverage. After admitting fault and agreeing to plant five times as many trees as it destroyed, D.R. Horton avoided paying a fine. The instance wasn’t the first ...