Stephen Hind takes pride in maintaining his garden, which is filled with exotic plants and trees A banana plant added to a back garden to create a tropical paradise has begun producing fruit, to the ...

Welcome to mid-summer! I hope you’ve been enjoying the fruit of the season. I know some of you might have been missing some old reliables this year. I wrote a bit about that today. Joanna Glovinsky ...

Discover Mark’s top five easy-to-grow fruit trees perfect for any home garden! From hardy lemon trees to productive plums, mulberries, kumquats, and apples, learn which varieties thrive in containers, ...

Rows of apple trees with ripe fruits growing - Nicholas Klein/Getty Images Some trees, like the Japanese umbrella pine — an evergreen ideal for small back yards — can take decades to fully mature, ...

My fruit tree expert friend, Michael Janik, recently sent out his June 2026 Fruit Tree Care and Gardening Newsletter. I’m always interested in what Michael reports on. He mentioned aphid damage on ...

Q: We purchased a home with four white and pink flowering crabapple trees, and one of the trees is struggling. Less than half the tree shows growth. Should we cut out the dead branches and hope the ...

It’s a beautiful spring day – it’s finally warmed up again after a week of chilly temps! You step out your front door to go for a walk, take a deep breath in and smell … rancid fish?! Unmentionable ...

Growing fruit trees from seeds can take many years, and the resulting tree won’t be identical to the parent tree. You could end up with a new hybrid variety that produces smaller fruit that may not ...