If you're interested in growing fruit trees in your garden, consider choosing native varieties. Native fruit trees require less maintenance than non-native ones because they are well-adapted to the ...

Thinking about spring’s glorious flowering fruit trees in the high desert often makes one wonder, how did some of these nonnative plants get here, and even more curious, how did they adapt to such an ...

Related to roses, crabapple trees have clusters of spring flowers made up of five, often slightly cupped petals which are followed by small apple-like fruits. Crabapples are distinguished from eating ...

Follow our journey on growing a crabapple tree from a seed to sapling in this 105-day time-lapse. Started with picking up a ...

Q. I enjoy the Plant Medic column. Do you have any knowledge about the sad condition of crabapple trees in the Allen County area? Is there a blight going amongst them? A. Crabapples are native to both ...

We have a Prairiefire crabapple tree that has severe splitting in almost all of the major branches. There is some evidence of old bark splits that have healed over that we did not notice until ...