With Spring around the corner, plants, trees and shrubs will soon be bursting into bloom. Now’s the time to get your pruning shears out.

Restrict summer pruning to removal of sucker shoots (young ... Recommended for pear and persimmon trees, as well as dwarf and semi-dwarf apple trees. Open center form: There is no central leader ...

Waiting until winter or early spring can reduce the chances of disease spreading to the apple tree and ensure the wounds heal before the warm summer months. You should also wait to prune apple ...

Pruning is an essential part of fruit tree maintenance, but doing it wrong can spell trouble for your trees. Here are the key pruning mistakes to avoid.

If you're pressed for space, a micro orchard will allow you to grow many fruits in place of one or two trees, and you'll be ...

The cherries were a wonderful surprise in the first year, but the tree has not been particularly bountiful since ...

Apple trees can grow very large, but their size can be managed by pruning them to a two-dimensional ... on how to espalier trees.) ‘Magus Summer Surprise’ is an apple bred in Tasmania with ...

Also, local garden expert Bill Colvard demonstrates how to properly prune fig trees. The Family Plot is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV ...

Late winter and early spring is the best time to prune established citrus trees ... to early summer’s apricots and berries, summer’s plums and peaches and fall’s apples and pears.

It will hold only so many trees, though I ... So the end of summer would be an appropriate time to prune your stone fruit and quince. For apples and pears, the appropriate time is fall or ...

The Bradford pear (Pyrus callerana "Bradford") was originally developed as a way to help control fire blight in pear trees.