Pruning also helps to keep the fruit tree at a manageable size, so it fits in with your backyard and makes harvesting easier.

Tree pruning sounds simple enough until you’re standing under a tangled canopy with no idea what to snip, what to […] ...

While it might not be as dramatic as a towering, decades-old fruit tree, the Greensleeves apple tree is a perfect pick for ...

"Bloom time is the key to pruning," according to The Grumpy Gardener. For some plants, careful pruning trims away old growth to make room for the new and to encourage flowering. Pruning can make ...

Trees are not static fixtures. They are dynamic, changing, living beings.” That is how I closed my previous column on tree ...

Bramley apple trees are unique and have a very important heritage. The original Bramley tree in Southwell was grown by Mary Anne Brailsford in 1809. It is still alive and bearing fruit at over 200 ...

Along with the trees, the 1,300-square-foot rooftop is covered in a dazzling display of English ivy, passion flowers, pink and white mandevilla, trumpet flowers, akebia vines and morning glories.

Compared to other fruit trees, growing a plum tree in your yard brings big rewards with relatively little effort. But if there's one task that you cannot skip if you want a plum harvest worth bragging ...