Fragrant flowers. Beautiful, shiny, and evergreen foliage. Colorful, edible, and delicious fruits. A well-behaved root system. The ability to adjust to different types or methods of ...
Growing Apple Trees: A Fruitful Primer
I have to admit, when somebody says, “Imagine a tree,” I envision an apple tree, and when they say “Think about a fruit,” my mind jumps to apples right away. It only makes sense that I think growing ...
Give the Gift of Fruit: How to Grow Peach Trees
How many 10-year-old boys ask for a tree for their birthday? Ours did — he loved the fresh peaches from our neighbor’s tree so much, he wanted to be able to harvest the fruit from our own ...
The Bearer of Unusual Fruit: How to Grow Loquat
As prized for its beauty as it is for its tasty offerings, loquat is unusual in that it flowers in the fall and produces fruit in late winter/early spring. Native to China, carefully cultivated ...
Love Letter from the ‘20s: A Guide to Growing Avocados
We all know, of course, that letter carriers deliver the mail. But I wonder how many of you know about the 1920s mailman who “delivered” what would become most popular avocado in the United ...
Maligned No More: Enjoy the Bounty of the Generous Fig
The occasional pejorative use of the term “fig leaf” is wholly undeserved. The leaves of the fig tree (Ficus carica) are quite lovely — large, beautifully shaped, and generous in their ...
