In the heated discourse around real versus artificial Christmas trees, I’ve always sat somewhere in the middle. My parents got real trees for most of my childhood, which I loved, until my mom ...

Blooming quince, Chaenomeles, Rosaceae family, is a thorny, deciduous shrub or tree. We have quince shrub bushes that are blooming a bit early, as are the beautiful almond orchards. Usually, the ...

Here are 5 things to do in the garden this week: Fruits. Consider planting a quince tree (Cydonia bologna). The quince is a pome fruit, sharing that classification with apple and pear, and its pulp ...

They say that you plant pears for your heirs because pear trees take a while to bear a lot of fruit and then do so for decades, living longer than their sister apple trees. But if you really want a ...