Having your own apple tree would be incredible if you love this fruit, but if you save an apple seed to grow a tree, the ...

If pruning has not been done for a long time, some branches may be too big to cut with loppers, in which case a pruning saw will be needed. Although you can prune apple trees year-round ...

But some years, a bumper crop of apples can cause unanticipated stress to apple trees when there is more or heavier fruit than normal. This additional stress can cause branches to bend or even break.

Sapsucker woodpeckers drill holes in tree trunks and main branches, allow the holes to fill with sap, and then drink the ...

Winter pruning is a deceptively simple concept: while an apple tree is dormant, a gardener prunes her trees by cutting off, or heading, some of a branch’s recent growth. If all goes well ...

Yet only “Gray Tree” has scale-invariant branch diameters. When Mondrian removes the scale invariance in “Blooming Apple Tree,” viewers just as easily see fish, scales, dancers ...

The researchers found that compact apple trees have a small but significant deletion in the DNA near this gene, which causes it to become more active and results in shorter branches and a more ...