From mid to late February, groves of almond trees scattered throughout Europe signal the coming of spring by bursting into seas of blossoms in shades of tender pink and white. Many places blessed ...

That’s when the $4.8-billion industry puts its faith in honeybees to pollinate the pink-and-white flowers blooming on the almond trees. For Paramount, that requires hiring beekeepers to deploy ...

The Japanese apricot is very popular in Japan where they have cultivated about 300 named varieties. If you live in USDA zones 6 to 8, this small tree is easy to grow with very few pests or problems.

Almond trees in the long flat valleys of California produce as much as 80% of the world’s almond supply. White and pink flowers that result from almond blossoms can be seen by motorists driving ...

If flowers were fashion, auto design, or home decor, they'd be ostentatious. But on stem or branch, they should be as ridiculous, frilly, saturated, and heavily scented as their breeders can dream.

It begs the question: What’s a better use for this land, satiating California milk drinkers, or almond eaters half a world away? *** Almonds are to the 2000s what soy was to the health-food ...

"The new almond tree has a very pale pink blossom in the spring. "There are lots of tourists around at the moment people really enjoy looking at the trees as they walk by." ...

Native to the Mediterranean where almond trees grew wild, almonds were later cultivated by local people as long ago as 3000 BC, according to Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The trees need full sun and well-drained soil, and grow 12 to 15 feet tall. They’re semi-self-fertile. “You will get some nuts with just one tree,” she said, “but if you want a big crop ...