'Tis the season to celebrate the evergreens in our lives as we prepare to give pride of place to the Christmas trees that represent everything bright and shiny about the holidays. Many ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Planting fruit trees in your yard adds beautiful accents to your landscape and, hopefully, bountiful fruit harvests to match. However, the ...

TREES AND SHRUBS add structure, color and interest to any landscape. Those with dark leaves play a key role in mixed borders, where their colorful foliage contrasts beautifully with blooms of ...

Evergreen attractions are the bones that can make any garden a wonderful four-season refuge for birds and gardeners alike. Conifers not only provide that tempting trio of food, shelter and nesting ...

• “Growing and Caring for Dwarf Fruit Trees,” Cornell University Cooperative Extension Schenectady County Fact Sheet on the Web at www.cceschenectady.org Let’s face it; having a small yard isn’t very ...

The American Heritage College Dictionary defines “Dwarf” as “an atypically small animal or plant." “Dwarf” Japanese maples and “dwarf” weeping cherries (or other weeping trees) are extremely popular ...

For the past few years, I’ve moved a puny Meyer lemon tree indoors for winter and back out in spring, trying to coax a fruit or two out of the reluctant little thing. The thought of growing citrus is ...

The warm weather we've experienced in Greater Columbus this past week has many a gardener itching to get outside and plant something. This past week I saw the first fruit trees available for purchase ...

Q: I watched your pruning videos on YouTube and learned a lot. Is it possible to reduce the size of a standard-sized apple tree to a dwarf size this way? A: Probably not. Standard-sized apple trees ...

It used to be that most every Iowa backyard had a big, spreading apple tree. It produced many bushels of apples that were lovingly turned into endless pies, crisps, canned applesauce and dried apples.