Rows of trees for sale in a nursery - Yinyang/Getty Images Patience is a virtue, right? But when you're a gardener waiting for the tree you lovingly picked out and planted to produce fruit, your ...

“All major fruit tree species tend to do better with spring planting,” Slack says. But it’s important to work around frost warnings. “Potted trees, if dormant, are fine once the soil thaws,” she adds.

In many parts of the country, trees and shrubs can be transplanted virtually all year long. But no matter where you live, fall is the very best time. The cool air and warm soil temperatures are the ...

Sacred fig trees grow large when planted in the ground, but in containers, they stay relatively small, making them easy to ...

Just because autumn begins in a few short weeks, there’s no reason to stop gardening and improving your home and landscape. Autumn is the best time to plant new trees in the landscape and to improve ...

When is a good time to prune my fruit trees? Fall is absolutely the worst time for pruning fruit trees. The best time to prune fruit trees is when the trees are dormant, although under certain ...

Some fig trees can convert surprisingly large amounts of carbon dioxide into stone, ensuring that the carbon remains in the soil long after the tree has died. This means that fig trees planted for ...

Patience is a virtue, right? But when you're a gardener waiting for the tree you lovingly picked out and planted to produce ...