It’s a tiny little peach tree. It’s only about six feet tall and the limbs are so low there isn’t a good way to mow around it without getting a face full of peach tree. It was planted in an awkward ...

Q: My Meyer lemon has done well over the years. I protect it when it gets very cold. It has produced fruit regularly each year. My peach tree is about 30 feet away. The lemon is covered in bees, but ...

Choose a suitable location: Peach trees need six to eight hours of sunlight daily. The soil should be well-draining and rich ...

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 ...

The tree of the month for February is the “Prunus persica” or flowering peach tree. This very impressive specimen is the double red flowering variety one of the earliest to bloom. A member of the ...

“My aunt in San Diego started this flowering peach tree for me 40 years ago from a seed in her yard,” writes Janet Smith, of San Jose. “It’s been in my yard ever since. It reminds me of her in the ...

The Pleasantly Pungent Odor of sage is filling the air wherever native vegetation grows on the county’s coastal and lower-foothill slopes. Most common are the black sage, with tight clusters of small, ...

Q: I planted a peach tree and a nectarine tree at the same time around three years ago. The nectarine tree is fine, and the peach tree produced fruit the first year with no problem. The second year ...