Among the most popular and familiar fruit trees for home gardeners are apple and pear trees. Proper pruning and disease management are very important even for just one or two trees. Apple and pear ...
As your summer garden starts to fade, it’s a good time to start planning for next year’s harvest, so why not try something new? Imagine the kinds of fruit you ...
Pear trees require fertilizer when they are young and when the soil lacks essential nutrients. For young trees, a balanced ...
Like all living things, trees have a limited life cycle, with phases of youth, maturity, and old age. In their prime, trees provide shade, coolness and environmental quality—as well as an undeniable ...
GREENSBORO, N.C. — A Greensboro family is cleaning up after storms snapped a pear tree that had stood in their yard for nearly 30 years. Eileen Kohlenberg said she was inside when the tree cracked and ...
The sale of Callery pear trees will soon be illegal in Missouri, as state lawmakers have passed a ban on the popular but invasive species. The bill also bans sericea lespedeza, burning bush, Japanese ...
WINFIELD, Pa. — At Northhill Orchard and Supply in Snyder County, owner Ephraim King is looking over his pear trees. Pear season is here, and King is getting ready to harvest them. He says this year, ...
Fences may make good neighbors, but not every privacy plant does. You know the plants – the blackberry or raspberry sending canes into your yard with leaves reaching over the fence, the lilac, that ...
LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - Everywhere you look, there are trees in East Texas, but one tree that was recently chopped down in Lufkin is getting special attention. “The moral of the story is the tree is ...