Q. My flowering plum has made fruit this year. I have been here five years and this tree never made fruit before. I thought it was for flowering only and would not make fruit. Why did it make fruit ...

All of the popular fruit trees produce flowers. Otherwise, they could not produce fruit. The stone fruits, such as almond, apricot, cherry, peach, plum and prune, bloom very impressively at this time ...

Both are caused by fungi, but they are not spreading between these two trees; serviceberries don’t get black knot and plums ...

With the early arrival of spring and the abundance of flowering trees, shrubs, and bulbs that seemed to appear all at once, I recently was challenged to identify specific blooming trees according to ...

”Bones of Jade, Soul of Ice: The Flowering Plum in Chinese Art” is an example of what a first-rate theme show can be. Although its subject is probably too unfamiliar for the title to whet the appetite ...

Hundreds of flowering plum trees on both sides of the road have given commuters on one Sacramento-area highway an annual show of pink blossoms for more than a decade. But, the trees are all coming ...

There are few trees as showy in bloom as flowering cherries and plums. Covered in pink or white flowers, these trees are often the first to bloom and signal that spring is near. Many species of ...

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The show really begins in January, when the bleakest month of the year is brightened with almond blossoms. The pale pink buds pop like corn into white blossoms, fooling observers into thinking that ...