Who wouldn't love to grow a mini orchard housing diverse fruit trees to keep us and the pretty birds visiting our backyards satiated year-round. Sadly, with even the youngest seedlings costing over ...

Fruit trees can transform your backyard into a mini orchard, but many types won't be ready to harvest until a decade or more after planting. Luckily, there are fast-growing fruit trees that you can ...

Imagine stepping into your backyard on a warm summer afternoon, plucking a ripe, sun-warmed peach from the tree, and biting into it. It's a closer reality than you think — along with Meyer lemons, ...

As winter begins to ebb in a few weeks, people will be thinking about landscape issues again. An unfortunate question I am sometimes asked is similar to this: “I lost my prized shade tree! What can I ...

Questions? Go to the Spokane County Master Gardener website, www.spokane-county.wsu.edu/Spokane/eastside/. Pollination charts are at treefruit.wsu.edu/orchard ...

Purdue Landscape Report: An unfortunate question I am sometimes asked is similar to this: “I lost my prized shade tree! What can I plant that will grow fast and give me shade?” While there is no ...