If you’re considering adding an apple tree to your home landscape this spring, it’s important to choose an appropriate ...

For some sprawling greenery under your fruit trees, check out these ground covers that specifically pair well with a variety ...

Fresh fruits like blueberries, apples and peaches are normally associated with the heat of summer, but to get there, they must embrace the cold of winter.

With spring ever so close, the urge to have that beautiful garden color can seem nagging. Here are ways to force the start of ...

A self-pollinating nonpareil could mean less need for bees and greater production for the most popular variety of nut.

The extinction of dinosaurs about 65 million years ago helped create an environment where fruits could thrive, leading to the evolution of primates, a new study has found. At such a critical moment in ...

Unlike other comic strips that feature main characters (like Peanuts and Garfield), where the jokes have to be tailored to ...

The centuries-old tradition of wassailing is making a comeback in rural England, with rituals and revelry meant to chase away evil spirits and the winter blues.

Across southeastern Liberia, oil palms grow wild in the forest. Known as “country palm,” the Elaeis guineensis tree is native ...

Hawthorne Nursery, one of the last Japanese American-owned plant nurseries established before World War II in Los Angeles, ...

If the leaves of your citrus tree are yellow, it’s a sign that they are deficient in the minerals — nitrogen and magnesium t ...

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