Q: Several years ago at the university orchard on Horse Drive, you gave us a list of five different peach trees to plant, each ripening at different times. We’ve enjoyed peaches from May through ...

Shortly after Christmas, during intervals of mild weather, the Japanese apricot (Prunus mume) perfumes the air with a sweet scent of almond. This small deciduous tree explodes with color in ...

Q: I have an ornamental flowering plum that produces fruit. I want to spray it to stop the fruit production and the messiness it brings. Last year I had a commercial applicator apply it, but I think I ...

Companion planting vegetables with certain other plants can deter garden pests and make veggies more productive without fertilizers or pesticides. You can apply this same concept when growing fruit ...

Tourists pose for photos in front of a flowering apricot tree in Turgen Township of Xinyuan County in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 12, ...

Charlyn Moltane, who gardens in Fountain Valley, emailed as follows: “My friend in Garden Grove has grown four apricot trees from the seeds of store-bought fruit. These trees are now five feet tall ...

For flower farmers in District 12, Thu Duc City of HCMC, business this year is as weak and delicate as their yellow apricot blossoms, which have bloomed too early. Apricot garden Phuong Binh, a ...