Effective pruning also maintains a healthy and vibrant tree, boosts fruit production, and protects against pests and diseases ...

Dreaming of harvesting peaches, plums, apples or figs from your own backyard? Growing delicious homegrown fruit starts with ...

Columnist Robin Trott talks about why winter pruning works on certain trees and shrubs and why it doesn't on some flowers.

Pruning maple trees, birches, and willows in winter is not recommended because they are prone to excessive sap running from ...

Fig trees are prolific growers and can mature at 10 to 30 feet tall and wide. Pruning controls their size so they grow more bushlike than treelike. Native to Asia and the Mediterranean, they thrive in ...

Growing up in Swain County, North Carolina, Nathan Dee Greene ate a lot of apples. The family had several trees of their own, but every fall, they bought bushels from the nearby orchard on Laurel ...

Last month, Apple announced a Christmas tree drawing competition for British iPad users, with winning designs to be exhibited “alongside trees drawn by established artists and notable figures”. Now, ...

Apple's annual holiday projections at London's Battersea Power Station will feature public designs for the first time this year. Winners, including a 7-year-old and other creatives, will have their ...

Apple is today celebrating the winners of Your Tree on Battersea, its festive UK competition that invited people to design digital Christmas trees on iPad. The 24 winning submissions are set to be ...

AFTER OR THE WEEKEND AFTER THANKSGIVING IS THE TIME TO GET A FRESHLY CUT CHRISTMAS TREE. ABSOLUTELY. APPLE HILL IN EL DORADO COUNTY IS HOME TO SEVERAL TREE FARMS AND PHOTOJOURNALIST MIKE CARROLL FOUND ...

If you look forward to harvesting fruit from your own apple trees to make jams, pies, and jars of apple butter, the first step is ensuring you have healthy trees. Set your apple trees up for a ...