Use an apricot from your farmer’s market haul.

When planting a fruit orchard in your yard, make sure you don't forget about pruning. Neglecting to prune your fruit trees, including your apricot trees (Prunus armeniaca), creates added stress and ...

Much of the origin of the apricot is lost in time, with China, India and Armenia all having been thought at one time as the original home of this fruit; however, historical/horticultural studies have ...

Charlyn Moltane, who gardens in Fountain Valley, emailed as follows: “My friend in Garden Grove has grown four apricot trees from the seeds of store-bought fruit. These trees are now five feet tall ...

Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...

Ort Family Farm, run by Roger, Maria, and Tanner Ort, specializes in a wide variety of fruit trees, berries, and plants.

To promote bountiful fruit production and minimize the chance of disease, apricot (Prunus armeniaca) and cherry trees (Prunus spp.) should not be pruned in the fall or winter when the trees are ...

Shortly after Christmas, during intervals of mild weather, the Japanese apricot (Prunus mume) perfumes the air with a sweet scent of almond. This small deciduous tree explodes with color in ...

"The first torches were lit at around 11pm," said Jean-Noël Devènes, a fruit grower in Baar in the municipality of Nendaz VS, in an interview with Keystone-SDA. He described a "nasty and biting" cold ...