Adding one or two trees with red leaves to your plot is a wonderful way to introduce beautiful structure, ornamental detail and vibrant color to your plot. Planting a tree in your garden is a ...

A guide to when and how to prune fan-trained fruit trees for healthy trees and bumper crops, including tips for training trees and pruning established trees.

This is the time of year when Nicole Hughes gets constantly distracted by the fall foliage as she drives around North Carolina. "I'm always looking," says Hughes, a biologist at High Point University.

When you think of lemons and avocados, you might assume that they can only be grown in warm climates. However, many tropical ...

It’s always useful to keep in mind that when we buy a certain variety of fruit tree we are the beneficiaries of clonal propagation; that is, the fruit we harvest is coming from canopy growth (called a ...

Dreaming of harvesting peaches, plums, apples or figs from your own backyard? Growing delicious homegrown fruit starts with ...

I have a 3-year-old Meyer lemon tree that seems to have picked up some kind of disease that started a couple of weeks ago. The leaves at the ends of branches are curled and deformed and do not look ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...