Q: We really enjoyed your article about fruit trees. We have a 23-year-old mango tree which is about 15 feet tall and 15 feet wide, it definitely bears more fruit every other year. We have never ...

Question. One of the trunks of my ligustrum and some additional limbs are dead. I prune them off when noted and apply a fungicide. What else can I do? Answer. Some young but mainly older ligustrums ...

Pruning! It’s part of the key skill set for any gardener. While plants will grow without it, pruning is a valuable technique for encouraging new growth, shaping particular forms and sizes, increasing ...

Q. I have a mango tree that's been in the ground two years. How do I prune this plant? I also have an Asian pear tree that produced for the first time this summer. There were many pears, but they are ...

Question: My neighbor had a large tree topped by about half because of concern about it damaging her house in a storm. Do you think I should have my trees topped too? Answer: Large trees growing near ...

Sidney Stevens is a writer and editor for magazines, websites, and books, with a focus on health and environmental issues. Mangoes bring their tropical goodness to everything from salads to salsa to ...

A few days after the Himachal public works department pruned branches of 200 fruit bearing mango trees standing on Daulatpur-Gagret Guglehad road in Una district, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ...