The old saying goes, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." While apples can't cure all ailments, they are a good source of vitamin C and fiber. Growing an apple tree in your backyard gets you ...

Among these practices, pruning stands out as a critical technique for maintaining the vitality of apple trees. This age-old horticultural practice, if done correctly, can significantly enhance ...

Large fruit like peach necessitate aggressive pruning. Cherry and almond do not require as much. Pomme fruit include apple, pear and quince. Deciduous fruit trees are certainly not low maintenance.

Fig trees reach 10 to 20 feet tall or more (30 feet is common in warm climates), but you can keep them smaller through pruning. Fig trees can be grown in USDA zones 5 to 10.

You can use your pruning cuts to direct the growth of the tree, and to keep it short enough for easy picking of fruit. For peach and nectarine trees, remove 50% of last year's growth. For fig, apple, ...

If you are considering adding these lovely trees to your house, congratulations on a smart decision. But while these trees cannot grow too tall, they still require pruning to develop healthily. We ...

Anyone who has apple or pear trees in their garden is being warned ... With the larger branches, try to cut out all infected material. All such pruning should remove all brown, infected bark ...

Somehow, the belief that crape myrtles should be brutally pruned by cutting off their tops persists, even though it's inaccurate. Crape murder is a term that has been coined to describe this ...

(Courtesy Tom Karwin) January is a highly beneficial time to prune trees and shrubs because this is the dormant period for many plants in coastal California. This column provides specific ...