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The author’s neighbor’s 40-year-old Shiro plum tree before bloom. Most Japanese plum trees grow outward instead of upward. (Barbara Damrosch) ...
If you're new to gardening, a plum tree can provide a tasty introduction to fruit growing. Besides making nearby soil more fertile and gifting healthy food to your household, a plum is likely to ...
The Japanese apricot -- a plant native to China, actually -- is one of the longest lived of the flowering fruit trees.
Japanese beetles should not be of much concern unless their population gets very high and causes significant damage to leaves, stressing the trees. However, another insect, plum curculio, a kind ...
There are approximately 250 varieties of plums grown in California. They thrive in the San Joaquin Valley, are one of the easiest fruit trees to grow in the home garden, and are delicious to eat ...
Kelliher is standing between rows of Japanese plum trees. Kelliher's stone fruit trees - plums and peaches - are most at risk. He also grows Asian pears and several varieties of apples.
Because of its smaller size, the loquat is a great tree for small yards and cramped spaces. The tree blooms white fragrant flowers from October through February, and the fruit is ready for harvest ...
Summertime is cutting time, especially for cherry, peach, nectarine and Japanese plum trees.
Here's why plums are as nutritionally beneficial as they are juicy and delicious — plus why you may want to go easy on how many you eat each day.
WASHINGTON (7News) — Spring is just around the corner -- 60 days away to be exact. The National Park Service tweeted out pictures Thursday showing Japanese plum trees beginning to bud. I know we ...
They are in fact Japanese plum trees. The Japanese plum trees begin blooming in January and February around the National Mall, months before the the cherry trees.
Daniel Goldberg of Richmond’s Feral Ecology invited the public to join in its summer harvest of backyard and streetside loquat trees this year, and a plum harvest is up next.