If you want your best ever fall harvest, get to know the various types of plum trees to grow in your garden. You can't beat them for a delicious late summer sweet treat, and once they get going, ...

Those who walk our neighborhood will see a nook with a red plum tree, lenten roses, a small rose bush and butterfly bushes. It is a sweet habitat for small-winged creatures. Several years ago, a ...

There’s a ridiculous level of anxiety going on in my garden involving four types of plums and a commitment to try not to show up at my friend Gerald’s house with sad-canner eyes. He’s an archaeologist ...

Last year I promised my son, Nat, a Mirabelle plum tree for his birthday. By the time I got around to placing the order, the nursery had no Mirabelles and the other varieties we wanted were out of ...

If you want to add hybrid fruit trees to your garden, you’re in for a sweet treat. Hybrid fruit trees are generally easier to ...

Plums can mean summertime sweetness wrapped in party-dress colors. Fruit clothed in red, yellow, green or purple-black skin with juicy flesh, smooth textured like deep-pile velvet. Sweet, but with an ...

This week gardening columnist Don Kinzler answers questions about balls forming on potato plants, why a rosebush is not flowering, and if a Burbank plum tree will survive in our climate. Reader Eileen ...