As we count down to the holidays, many of us add a variety of living plants to augment the season's festive atmosphere: live Christmas trees, Christmas cacti and poinsettias. In the Bay Area, citrus ...

If you are looking for a fruit tree that produces in the fall with a minimum of care, consider a ‘Satsuma’ mandarin. Ronald Chong, our conscientious correspondent from Hacienda Heights, emailed a ...

Derek New’s Satsuma mandarin trees produced fruit for four of their seven or eight years of life at his farm in Baker. Unfortunately, below-freezing weather killed each of his four Satsuma trees in ...

It’s satsuma time in Louisiana. Some plants began ripening in late September, while other varieties will continue to mature through late November on into early December. As one of the best cold-hardy ...

It's satsuma time in south Louisiana. Some varieties began ripening in late September while others will continue to mature through November and into early December. Satsumas are great to grow in your ...

1. David Herrig sends the following prescription for successful growth of a dwarf Satsuma mandarin tree: “We purchased ours from Home Depot back in 2002 when we lived in West Covina. It lived in a pot ...

Forty years ago, if you bought a mandarin orange at the market, chances were high it was a Fairchild tangerine. I don’t know why they were even popular. They were so difficult to peel and just loaded ...