Having an indoor fruit tree may sound appealing, but not all fruit trees are suited for growing inside. Here are the ones to ...

Pear, plum, fig and medlar trees can also produce good results ... To protect your fruit tree from moths that will destroy the fruit and leaves, apply a grease band 45cm (18in) above soil level ...

But whoever dreamed up the worst pruning practice for any tree — topping ornamental pears to “save them” from their fate — is out of their mind. Let me back up and explain. Ornamental pear ...

Chef has a special passion for pears, but the ripe fruit is such a fragile, messy thing, it’s hard to buy them ripened to full flavour — they must come from the garden. To extend our crop, we’re ...

Over the years, Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) has become one of the most widely planted ornamental trees in the US ... Frank Meyer in the early 1900s, fruit and seed were imported in huge ...

Fire blight infects ornamental fruit trees such as this callery pear, a popular landscape tree. Symptoms include cankers on branches, wilted shoots and blacked leaves, which give trees a “scorched” ...