In addition to reducing your gardening bills, planting native flowers, shrubs, and trees helps to improve the air quality and ...

Growing a lemon tree from home has many perks, most notably that you can enjoy its fresh fruit all year, even during colder ...

When Greg Dyment took over as director in 1997, the 26-acre botanical gardens at Cal State Fullerton were in need of ...

Timing is key when it comes to pruning flowering and fruiting plants. Randy Forst, extension educator for consumer ...

The red maple is a wide-ranging native tree in the Eastern half of the United States. In Maryland, red maples flower between ...

Pruning is essential for attractive, healthy trees and shrubs and improves the quality of flowers, fruit and foliage. The ...

Now is the time for some winter pruning on ornamental shrubs and trees. From December to late March is the perfect time to ...

Abbey Roy is a mom of three girls who make every day an adventure. She writes to maintain her sanity. You can probably reach ...

The apple crop was extremely variable this year. Some trees produced beautiful crops of apples while others produced a small crop or, in some cases, a crop of very small apples. There were also ...

For apple scab, do one spray now while the tree is dormant and the tips of the buds are green. Spray again later in winter ...

My hero is Larry Enter. Enter is a Master Gardener from Watertown who grows perfect apples on his 155 trees. Apples from my two trees turn out…let’s just say “less than perfect.” Enter ...

With most trees and shrubs virtually naked this time of year, there can often be few observable signs of life among the ...