Question: I’d like to grow my own fruit trees, but I’m short on space. Can I grow fruit trees in containers? Answer: We’re happy to say yes, you can. One of the great pleasures in life is picking ...

If you’ve been pining to plant a tree, now is a great time. The season’s cooling temperatures and still-warm soil mean less stress on newly planted trees, which allows them to direct more energy into ...

A person prepares to transplant a tree in their garden. Photo courtesy Getty Images. Welcome to our tree column, “Ask your local arborist.” Each month, arborists from the Davey Tree Expert Company in ...

I recently bought two 12-foot shade trees in large containers. Do I need to stake them? How long? My neighbor still has stakes on some trees planted two or three years ago. It sounds like you have not ...

BOISE, Idaho — Fall is a great time to plant a new tree. It can get established without the intense summer heat, and before the ground freezes. On this edition of 'You Can Grow It,' KTVB Garden Master ...

An apple tree can take up to five years to bear fruit, a pear tree between four and six, and a sweet cherry up to seven. The worst part? This countdown begins after you plant the young trees in your ...

When Tom Spellman began lecturing on fruit trees more than two decades ago, his audience skewed primarily older with lots of people in their 60s and 70s. In recent years, that’s started to change.

Growing your own avocado tree gives you constant access to a prized fruit, but here's what you should know before trying to ...

LIFE IS BETTER with trees. For nearly 150 years, April has been the month when people celebrate trees and the many benefits they provide, like casting cool shade and producing canopies of blossoms — ...

Patience is a virtue, right? But when you're a gardener waiting for the tree you lovingly picked out and planted to produce fruit, your virtue may be tested. It can take two to four years to get an ...

The day after the Aug. 10 derecho, Gina Reynolds, manager of Fleming Nursery in Cedar Rapids, began fielding calls about leaning and broken trees. For the first couple of weeks, people asked her about ...