Double-flowering ornamental types of peach trees do bear fruit occasionally, but that’s not why we usually grow them. San Antonio Express-News Hearst Newspapers Logo Skip to main content ...

Peach trees are pruned in January or early February just as new growth and major flowering begins. The centers of trees are kept open and up to one-third of the previous year’s growth removed.

Want to add apple, peach, pecan or fig trees to your NC backyard? ... This is because all of the tree’s energy will go toward flowering and producing fruit, stunting growth and productivity.

Generally, the varieties of fruit trees that flower earliest produce the earliest fruit. If there is a frost while the flowers are open, it will produce less fruit or maybe no fruit at all.

“My aunt in San Diego started this flowering peach tree for me 40 years ago from a seed in her yard,” writes Janet Smith, of San Jose. “It’s been in my yard ever since. It reminds me of ...

QUESTION: I have a strange peach tree that flowers during December. Will the tree keep the fruits that have been produced? When should I prune?ANSWER: Florida peaches are a mixed-up bunch of fruits.

Anytime the temperature falls below 24 degrees — 28 degrees for fully open flowers — there is the potential for flower death. Apricot and peach trees, in particular, are vulnerable in Kansas ...

I planted five flowering peach trees a couple years ago, and this spring the leaves started curling up and crystallizing. I talked to a gardening expert and he said that I had peach leaf curl and I sh ...

The tree of the month for February is the “Prunus persica” or flowering peach tree. This very impressive specimen is the double red flowering variety one of the earliest to bloom. A mem… ...

Descanso Gardens, which is well-known for its wintertime flowers — queenly camellias do rule the La Cañada Flintridge garden in regal and eye-catching fashion — announced that much-loved ...

My peach tree is about 30 feet away. ... I’m not an expert on this specific topic, but I wonder if bees are put off by peach flowers with a lot of extra petals?

But in spring it’s loaded with deep pink flowers like a flowering peach tree – but needs a fraction of the irrigation. Like true peaches, this desert cousin is deciduous.