Most people who want cherries from their own yard run into the same problem early on: most sweet cherries need

Cut a ripe persimmon open and hold it close, and the first thing that surprises most people is how quiet

A bare root tree shows up looking like a bundle of bare sticks with a tangle of roots and no

The Italian prune is one of those trees that quietly earns its place in a yard. It's a small, oval,

Most people treat grass clippings like trash. Bag them, drag them to the curb, forget about them. After enough years

A ripe Flavortop nectarine eaten warm off the tree is the kind of thing that turns a casual gardener into

A single buck can strip the bark off a young maple in one evening, and most people don't notice until

Every summer the same scene plays out at my market stand. Someone picks up a Reed, turns it over a

Most struggling blueberry bushes I get asked to look at didn't fail from bad pruning or the wrong fertilizer. They

The Biloxi blueberry is a low-chill southern highbush variety that USDA breeders released in 1998 so people in hot, mild-winter

Meet the "Ice Cream Fruit" A cherimoya looks like something a dragon might have laid in a nest. It's heart-shaped,

Walk into enough living rooms in July and you start to recognize the same white box wheeled into the corner,