While yard and gardening maintenance slows down in winter, it's actually prime pruning time for certain trees. Take care of ...

Blooming quince, Chaenomeles, Rosaceae family, is a thorny, deciduous shrub or tree. We have quince shrub bushes that are blooming a bit early, as are the beautiful almond orchards. Usually, the ...

In the heated discourse around real versus artificial Christmas trees, I’ve always sat somewhere in the middle. My parents got real trees for most of my childhood, which I loved, until my mom ...

After a summer of tending to vegetables and flowerbeds, winter can be the perfect time to step back and focus on chores that keep your garden running in tip-top shape. For some people, winter garden ...

They say that you plant pears for your heirs because pear trees take a while to bear a lot of fruit and then do so for decades, living longer than their sister apple trees. But if you really want a ...

Here are 5 things to do in the garden this week: Fruits. Consider planting a quince tree (Cydonia bologna). The quince is a pome fruit, sharing that classification with apple and pear, and its pulp ...