Dreaming of harvesting peaches, plums, apples or figs from your own backyard? Growing delicious homegrown fruit starts with ...

Q: I planted this fruit cocktail tree six years ago. It was supposed to have four fruits on it, and so far I have gotten only plums and peaches. The plums are great, but the peaches are small and fall ...

I interrupt today’s cocktail hour to talk about…cocktails. After naming, renaming, classifying plants, and pondering the meaning of life, our friends at Botanists ‘R Us, probably needed a good stiff ...

FRESNO, Calif. — You can have a cocktail of mixed drinks and a cocktail of diced fruit. How about a cocktail of fruit varieties — or fruit types — on one tree? If you never thought about it, well, ...

While Luther Burbank experimented with plants at his home and garden in Santa Rosa, he did the bulk of this work at Gold Ridge, his 11-acre property in Sebastopol. There he grew the famous tree that ...

Q. I recently moved into a new home that had several fruit trees, and I have added more fruit trees this spring. How can I tell which fruit trees in my new home will need pollinators and which won’t?