You can grow apples in Southern California, but you must select low-chill varieties. Trees should be labeled with the chill ...

Often the snow on the hilly south side of my house has melted by early March, allowing snowdrops to push their little noses out of the ground and permitting me to pick buds that open up indoors. Most ...

Garrett Sorber, co-owner of Radical Roots Nursery, a fruit and flower nursery in Maine ...

A pattern has emerged that I do not understand. On planting a new plum tree, it takes a couple of years to establish and then flowers and bears fruit for several years, whereupon it stops flowering ...

When it comes to companion planting, not all gardeners and scientists agree on the practice's effectiveness. Some studies report on the benefits of growing two plants together, while others show ...

Every autumn, I begin to crave generic seasonal comforts: the hues of turning leaves, the chill of sweater weather. I’m not really a pumpkin-spice person, but I’m a sucker for a classic u-pick apple ...

If you plant a seed from a Gala apple, the chances are one in a hundred (or less) that the fruit produced from the tree that grows will be sweet. As Henry David Thoreau remarked, such seedling-grown ...

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During this evening’s coverage of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Monty Don and Joe Swift were on hand to answer viewers’ gardening questions. One viewer asked the gardening experts how to stop ants and ...