Q: Have you seen a reduction in the fruit of plums and pluots this year? My trees are three to five years old, and I did not see many flowers on them this spring. Not a lack of pollination, but a lack ...

All of the popular fruit trees produce flowers. Otherwise, they could not produce fruit. The stone fruits, such as almond, apricot, cherry, peach, plum and prune, bloom very impressively at this time ...

Some fruit trees that normally bloom in late winter and spring are blooming now. Recently, a lady who had been out of town noticed that her peach trees were blooming when she arrived home. Knowing ...

Q: My Meyer lemon has done well over the years. I protect it when it gets very cold. It has produced fruit regularly each year. My peach tree is about 30 feet away. The lemon is covered in bees, but ...

In Los Angeles, February is known as the month when winter merges into spring. The Super Bowl, in early February, coincides with a major botanical event: the onset of flowering — known scientifically ...

True confession. Until this week, I had tasted persimmons only once, in 1984, when a colleague gave me a persimmon grown in the orchard on the former Texas Tech horticulture farm (now the 18th hole of ...

It’s that time of year when deciduous trees are putting on their leaves, while the oaks and pines are producing copious amounts of pollen. Live oaks are shedding leaves to put on new growth.

Q. My flowering plum has made fruit this year. I have been here five years and this tree never made fruit before. I thought it was for flowering only and would not make fruit. Why did it make fruit ...

Some fruit trees that normally bloom in late winter and spring are blooming now. Recently, a lady who had been out of town noticed that her peach trees were blooming when she arrived home. Knowing ...