Name a fruit that grows on trees in backyards across the region. Chances are you said apple, which is the most common tree fruit in the Upper Midwest. While apples enjoy the limelight, plums are often ...

Gardening Express has proclaimed itself one of the only nurseries in the country producing these two-in-one specimens, or Duo trees, that offer shoppers the chance to score two fruit trees in one ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There’s a ridiculous level of anxiety going on in my garden involving four types of plums and a commitment to try not to show up at my friend Gerald’s house ...

Last year I promised my son, Nat, a Mirabelle plum tree for his birthday. By the time I got around to placing the order, the nursery had no Mirabelles and the other varieties we wanted were out of ...

Urban gardeners may believe that fruit trees require sprawling yards or a full orchard to grow well, but that's not always the case. For smaller homes that have compact gardens and less space for ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If peaches are pointless because frost nips them in the bud and apples are often spoiled by coddling moth, try a tree that gives you fruit that’s just plum ...

John Bunker tell readers about the best tasting and easiest to grow plums. Visit this story’s main page to learn more about the North American Fruit Explorers and growing America’s best fruit. John ...

Add this to your truth-is-stranger-than-fiction file: an art professor in upstate New York is modifying plum trees so that each can bear not just one, but up to 40 varieties of stone fruit. In what ...