This ornamental tree erupts in traffic-stopping blooms in early March around Fort Worth. But there’s a downside to their ...

It’s a tiny little peach tree. It’s only about six feet tall and the limbs are so low there isn’t a good way to mow around it without getting a face full of peach tree. It was planted in an awkward ...

Q: My Meyer lemon has done well over the years. I protect it when it gets very cold. It has produced fruit regularly each year. My peach tree is about 30 feet away. The lemon is covered in bees, but ...

All of the popular fruit trees produce flowers. Otherwise, they could not produce fruit. The stone fruits, such as almond, apricot, cherry, peach, plum and prune, bloom very impressively at this time ...

The tree of the month for February is the “Prunus persica” or flowering peach tree. This very impressive specimen is the double red flowering variety one of the earliest to bloom. A member of the ...

Black knot is a fungal disease that disfigures certain flowering trees. Control the disease by pruning in February through March.

I was at a pool this week getting my exercise and looking forward to Friday the 13th. This is my three-month anniversary visit with my surgeon about my hip replacement surgery. Hopefully my ...

Thin out peach and nectarines to produce larger fruit during the next two to three weeks. Thinning, or the removal of fruit by hand, is an important step in growing larger and higher-quality peaches ...