If there's a pretty white-flowering tree in front of your house in spring, chances are it's Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana), also known as Callery pear. The white blooms are a welcome sign of spring ...

Grafting fruit trees - combining two or more different trees into one - is a fun undertaking for gardeners. Here's everything you need to know about it.

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

That's because, according to Morris, “the pear is one of the few fruits that does not ripen on the tree." Instead, he says, almost all types of pears are harvested when mature but not yet ripe. This ...

You can use your pruning cuts to direct the growth of the tree, and to keep it short enough for easy picking of fruit. For peach and nectarine trees, remove 50% of last year's growth. For fig, apple, ...

To breed, a ‘couple’ will suspend themselves from a tree in a sticky mucus to mate. This jelly lichen looks like clusters of tiny, dark octopus suckers. It performs a useful role in the ...

The snarl of a chainsaw never sounds sweeter than when slicing through the trunk of a nasty Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana). I have railed against the spring-blooming, white-flowering tree for years.