"If you want happy fruit trees, grow them as a forest would." Gardener shares 'awesome' hack to grow fruit trees at home: 'I ...

Papaya plants are tropical, so they thrive in warmth. "Fresh seeds taken directly from a ripe fruit usually germinate in two ...

To properly water a tree in its first year, turn a hose on trickle and lay the end on top of the ground within 6 inches of ...

Bare-root trees need to be planted quickly to keep their exposed roots from drying out. Here's the best time to plant so you'll have a successful spring.

Fig trees grow quickly, and cutting them back drastically helps keep them at a manageable size. Learn how and when to prune ...

Instead of spitting out orange seeds and discarding them, it's possible to grow your own trees. Germination and planting is ...

A research team from Purdue University’s Department of Computer Science and Institute for Digital Forestry, with collaborator Sören Pirk at Kiel University in Germany, has discovered that artificial ...

A new book details how lignin once protected algae from UV radiation, then later in evolutionary time became a structural support for trees. The following is an excerpt from When the Earth Was Green: ...

Winter weather can have a large impact on how plants, specifically trees, grow. Here's what to know about plant dormancy and ...

Patience is a virtue, and many trees require it. "Trees, in general, live on a much longer timeline than we do, with many living for hundreds, and some even thousands of years," says Nancy Gaspari, an ...