A highly contagious disease that can wipe out an apple orchard threatens Connecticut’s fruit crop. But there’s help on the way. Fire blight, a bacteria that gets into the apple tree as it is flowering ...

Apples and persimmons are two of the most popular fruit trees for personal gardens, but they have quite different needs, ...

Planting a flower garden already takes a certain degree of knowledge and tact. However, it becomes a lot more complicated when fruit trees are involved. Fruit trees take strategy to grow, needing ...

A garden is more than just a pretty backdrop or a source of homegrown produce -- it's a living system, and the plants you choose can play a powerful role in supporting its health and biodiversity.

Answer: There's nothing you can do about the trees starting to bloom early, other than hope the weather changes in a beneficial way. For grubs, apply beneficial nematodes in early spring and begin the ...

Broadly speaking, apples grow on trees in two basic configurations, spur bearing and tip bearing. The most common type we see nowadays are spur-bearing trees. Spurs are modified shoots usually less ...

If you plant a seed from a Gala apple, the chances are one in a hundred (or less) that the fruit produced from the tree that grows will be sweet. As Henry David Thoreau remarked, such seedling-grown ...

Q: I would like a Gala apple tree to match my two Anna apple trees. They are about 12 feet apart. How far from them can I plant the Gala tree, and will there be a problem with cross-pollination or ...

As it marks its 100th anniversary, this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show, which takes place from 21-25 May at the Royal Hospital, promises to be the best yet. Here, you'll discover what to expect, see ...