Learn how to grow figs right in your backyard. Every Southern garden should have a fig tree. These small trees or shrubs produce delicious fruit with flavors best experienced ripe from the tree.

If you would like to know how to prune a massive amount of fruit trees fast and easy then this is the video to watch! Here are my 10 top tips on how to prune a lot of fruit trees so that they will ...

Hard pruning is best done keeping the natural growth cycle of azaleas in mind. The main growing season for azaleas is spring through early summer, March/April through May. Pruning hard just before or ...

When LAist senior editor Suzanne Levy discovered there was a fig tree in her new backyard, she was thrilled. She didn't realize she'd be sharing its bounty with a tenacious sweet-toothed squirrel. The ...

We are fortunate to live in a place where we can grow so many delicacies, Cindy Watter, a UC Master Gardener of Napa County, ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Crews are working to remove a large tree that fell on Reservoir Road after rain poured across the DMV. During the heavy rainfall on Tuesday night, the tree fell in the 3700 ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (WSET) — We have a new invasive insect to look out for: the box tree moth caterpillar has made its way into Virginia. Alejandro Del-Pozo, Assistant Professor of Entomology at Virginia ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Have you noticed any fallen acorns, walnuts and chestnuts covering sidewalks, parking lots, or even your yard? The Virginia Department of Forestry is asking people to collect ...

It’s webworm season. The squirmy bugs are actually caterpillars and they can create some sticky situations in area trees. “They develop this web around them to protect them from the birds,” Lou Meyer, ...

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Virginia’s Department of Forestry strives to see many more native trees planted in the Commonwealth. For the second year in a row, they are willing to give money away to make that happen. DOF has $800 ...