Feb. 22—ATHENS — With the onset of warmer, longer days, an array of pink blooms from peach, cherry and plum trees break forth — the first signs of spring. And while most of us enjoy this seasonal ...

Q: When we moved into our home six years ago, there was a beautiful plum tree in the yard. It didn't produce fruit, but it did have lovely blossoms in the spring. After the tree started to decline, we ...

Getting back into the garden, checking out plants just waking up, inspecting branches then finding shiny little globs on a twig. Scale insects are a sneaky, little-detected, piercing, sucking pest ...

It's time to start working on managing pests in your fruit and landscape trees this year. Springtime is starting, even if it is delayed a bit from the normal timing. Given the huge differences in ...

Unfortunately, many pests love fruit trees and can easily damage leaves and spoil harvests. However, there are ways to get rid of these problematic visitors—without using harmful pesticides. For ...

There may be a lot of snow on the ground, but spring is still on its way, and the gardeners are itching to make plans for this year’s growing season. If you are one of these gardeners, and if you find ...

Dear Master Gardener: I like your column very much. I would like to see a column about plum trees in northern Minnesota. I live north of Brainerd and have greatly enjoyed my plums, but there are a ...