You can harvest luscious peaches, crisp apples and sweet plums right off your own tree. Garden designer and fruit expert Colby Eierman’s Fruit Trees In Small Spaces (Timber Press, 2012) shows how ...

Pruning is an essential garden chore for healthy trees, and you may assume that fruit and shade trees have the same pruning requirements, but they don't.

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Maile Arnold's exuberant garden sprawls over a sunny 2 acres in Sebastopol, so you might expect this landscape designer to know little about the space constraints of the urbanite. Her 18 varieties of ...

One of the oldest advanced techniques of gardening — and one of my favorites — is espaliering, which involves shaping woody plants into two-dimensional shapes. Now, in bare root season, it’s timely to ...

Fruit trees aren't always easy to look after, but these varieties are hardy and quick to grow — making them the perfect choice for beginner gardeners.

You might think of fruit trees as an outdoor category of flora, but you can actually grow a great tropical tree in the ...

Fruit trees are always a great addition to your garden. As well as looking pretty and making your garden smell great, they also provide quicker and cheaper fruit options than supermarkets and are ...

We all enjoy apples, pears, plums, oranges and other fruits that are commonly available in our grocery stores, but there are many other less familiar fruits. This topic was prompted by the upcoming ...

The idea of picking a ripe apple or juicy peach off of a tree in your own backyard may sound like an out-of-reach dream, but with the right care and proper research, you can turn this fantasy into a ...

Many people dream of picking their own fresh fruit, but they live in areas with long, harsh winters. However, even in these chilling conditions, it's still possible to make lemonade from your very own ...