Q. I just took the attached picture of my Honeygold apple. It's blossoming in September.-Butch Fangsrud, Moorhead A. Your interesting photo shows both flowers and large apple fruits. Fall and spring ...

All of the popular fruit trees produce flowers. Otherwise, they could not produce fruit. The stone fruits, such as almond, apricot, cherry, peach, plum and prune, bloom very impressively at this time ...

Conventional wisdom has it that pruning apple and pear trees is best done before the flower and leaf buds open. This year many apples and pears are blossoming very early — even before we've had a ...

Often the snow on the hilly south side of my house has melted by early March, allowing snowdrops to push their little noses out of the ground and permitting me to pick buds that open up indoors. Most ...