Most fruit trees require full sun, which means at least 6 to 8 hours of direct sunlight every day to fruit, but they'll fruit ...

Klamath plum is a large shrub or small tree growing to a height of 25 feet with a trunk diameter of six inches.

If you have a small yard, you don't have to forgo creating a mini orchard. This fruit tree is compact but provides delicious ...

Most trees with long, flexible branches, such as apple, cherry, fig, peach, pear, plum and quince lend themselves nicely to ...

A large tree that hasn’t been properly maintained often ends up getting topped because corrective pruning is tricky whereas topping is easy.

There are some large limbs hanging too low over my patio that I need to address before spring. Can I just prune these branches to create more clearance over my patio? — Jim Young, Libertyville ...

Since suckers and water sprouts are excess and undesirable, pruning those during the summer means it is less likely for the tree to respond by regrowing new ones.

Tree owners who have broken limbs in their trees or are just taking advantage of early pruning opportunities may notice large amounts of “water” that seem to be pouring out of the branch. This is ...

Sometimes pruning a tree can do more harm than good. Here are four examples of tree pruning fails.