Learn when to prune fruit trees and when to steer clear of the shears to see the most vigorous growth and best crop harvests.

There's no one month in which all fruit trees should be pruned since each variety has different needs, and there are different reasons for pruning, whether that's trimming off leafy growth to ...

Pruning is a science, but it doesn’t have to be intimidating. There are some pruning guidelines that act as a starting point that make pruning a bit easier. Choosing the correct tools for the job will ...

A versatile fruit that's superb in jams and with booze, quince also doesn't make you work too hard for all that pleasure.

As we continue through our “winter” we can still accomplish some useful goals for the coming spring and summer. Of the cultural practices we can do for maintaining woody ornamental plants, chief among ...

) an exotic fruit, it deserves wider attention and use. Its large, lumpy fruits are fragrant and possess a flavor so rich it is easy to understand its continuing popularity in many countries.

Given the hard freeze of last week, many of us will be outside pruning our damaged tropicals. (For frozen landscape repair, see last week's column.) But while we're outside with the shears, there are ...

Blooming quince, Chaenomeles, Rosaceae family, is a thorny, deciduous shrub or tree. We have quince shrub bushes that are blooming a bit early, as are the beautiful almond orchards. Usually, the ...