If you have a peach tree, this may not be your year for peach ice cream. After an especially wet spring, many trees are afflicted with peach leaf curl, a fungal disease. “It’s mostly a leaf disease, ...

Late winter can be a good time to force branches from spring-flowering trees and shrubs to bloom indoors. Once buds open, move the branches to a brighter room, out of direct sunlight. The arrival of ...

Tiny leaf buds are forming on the apple and dogwood trees in Chris Kuhlow’s Port Jefferson Station backyard, and leaves are appearing on his black raspberry bushes and lilacs. For 15 years, Kuhlow, a ...

PENNSYLVANIA (WHTM) — It is now officially spring, which means Pennsylvania’s trees will soon be green. Some have already started sprouting tiny buds that will grow into leaves in no time. So when ...

Bloodroot and many other native, early spring flowers to Wisconsin are still over a month away from flowering – but in some parts of the country they already are! Looking at a national map of where ...

CLIPPING STEMS AND branches of flowering trees and shrubs to bring indoors and coax into an early spring is one of my favorite seasonal rhythms. By late February, most spring-blooming woody plants ...

Pruning this sappy tree in early spring is basically an open invitation for destructive fungus and troublesome pests — here's ...