Fruit trees can be one of the most rewarding additions to your garden. A well-cared-for, mature apple tree can yield between ...

"Revitalize your neglected 60-year-old apple tree with expert pruning techniques. Start by removing dead or diseased branches to promote healthy growth. Thin out overcrowded areas to allow ...

One of those looming tasks may be finally “attacking” that old apple tree. Late February in to early March is a perfect time for pruning. Apple trees that are not pruned for several years will often ...

Wherever you find an old homestead—a house and barn with a little bit of land that has stood from sometime in the 1800s or early 1900s—you’ll find an apple tree. It may be gnarly, with limbs clawing ...

Outside my office building is an old apple tree. It was planted about one foot from the foundation of the building and overhangs the door where most people enter. Every year, the tree leaves ...

The parentage of the apple would also need to be appropriately old. If the DNA profile analysis determined that the parent of the sample tree was Honeycrisp, which wasn’t created until 1974 ...

A CU ecology professor noticed an apple tree in a Boulder field. What happened next grew into something bigger.

And my “instep arch not only keeps the ache,/It keeps the pressure of the ladder-round.” In my case, though, the result of pruning old apple trees makes me dream not of thousands of apples picked but ...

He's there in all the old photographs, staring out at you. But who is he? The DNA of some apple varieties, for instance, shows that they are descended from a lost tree, one that must have existed ...