Peach trees are generally considered easy to grow—but that doesn't mean you can skip pruning. Pruning is an essential step in ensuring that your tree produces as much quality fruit as possible and can ...

Having an indoor fruit tree may sound appealing, but not all fruit trees are suited for growing inside. Here are the ones to avoid and what to grow instead.

When a friend asked me why her lemon tree, despite diligent fertilization, had bright yellow leaves and was failing to thrive, I told her I would try to determine the ...

I sat down with Russell Norton a horticulture and agriculture educator with the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension and started by asking him: why do we prune?

Winter is the ideal time of the year to prune many trees. The branches are bare which makes it easier to see the overall ...

An upcoming workshop show how to press and preserve flowers and turn them into cards, bookmarks and other items.

Citrus are conveniently seasonable when not much other fruit is available from home gardens through winter, but they seem like summery fruit.

Identifying a dominant leader and cutting away any competing leaders when a tree is young will allow it to grow more robustly and live longer, said a local certified arborist.

The Santa Ana winds that spread the fires with lightning speed blew with hurricane force. Although nothing can compare to the ...

Where pruning cuts in a tree are improperly made ... are used as an oregano substitute. Lemon verbena (Aloysia tryphilla) is a non-native relative, available in your nursery’s herb section ...

Tree limbs that break off in high winds were often incorrectly pruned, plus how much defensible space is enough for fire ...

Find out what you all of the fun events happening across the state this February with Jessica O'Riley from Travel Iowa! Greek Tragedy comes to Eastern Iowa! Riverside Theatre presents The Cure at ...