Getting back into the garden, checking out plants just waking up, inspecting branches then finding shiny little globs on a twig. Scale insects are a sneaky, little-detected, piercing, sucking pest ...

Q: When we moved into our home six years ago, there was a beautiful plum tree in the yard. It didn't produce fruit, but it did have lovely blossoms in the spring. After the tree started to decline, we ...

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.

Hybrid fruit trees are often hardier. They can also produce delicious fruit in more abundance than their parents. That's a boon for birds visiting your yard.

Being refined can be a desirable quality. It reflects a process in which the best possible features have been distilled and are on display. With this refining process there are traits which are ...

Imagine growing your own backyard fruit orchard, but without having to do much in the way of pest control, weed management, or fertilizing because the carefully selected companion plants support and ...

Dear Master Gardener: I like your column very much. I would like to see a column about plum trees in northern Minnesota. I live north of Brainerd and have greatly enjoyed my plums, but there are a ...