Certain fruit trees are not only productive but also offer stunning visual appeal with their vibrant blossoms, making them excellent choices for boosting a home's curb appeal. Our favorite trees ...

Late spring, around May, is usually the best planting time for fruit trees. Dig a hole twice as deep as the roots on your ...

March, April and May are good months to prune fruit trees. Traditionally, farmers pruned their fruit trees in March. I think they did so because they had less other work they could do during this time ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. I was wondering if you could provide me with a list of which fruit trees need ...

A new family tree of the plant genus Solanum helps explain the striking diversity of their fruit color and size. This genus includes tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, and other economically important ...

Across back gardens this autumn, a quiet shift is speeding up orchards with little cost and almost no gadgetry. A growing ...

A flowering bottle brush bush. On this edition, we sought Tapp’s advice for how to contend with fruit flies attacking a house plant, why some bottle brushes that are supposed to be flowering aren’t, ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Fruits of Solanum plants, a group in the nightshade family, are incredibly diverse, ranging from sizable red tomatoes and purple eggplants to the poisonous green berries on ...