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

since most apple trees don’t live longer than 140 years. “You’ll see carcasses of old trees. We have no idea what they were, and some of them could have been lost varieties,” Benscoter says.

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 ...

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

The backyard apple tree was left to grow wild—until a recent surge in interest in heritage varieties and hard cider production. As scraggly and unkempt as an old apple tree may appear, it can still be ...

There is human desire and intention behind every tree, because the science requires it. Stephen Mihm’s move to an old Athens-area farm sparked his interest in forgotten apple varieties.

But old trees are dying ... and the specific heirloom varieties have become rare. For some, like the park's namesake red apple, these orchards might be their last hope. COTRELL: If we lose ...

Garth Aubin of Aubin Nurseries says the Beedle pear is sweet and juicy and lacks the bitter tasting outer skin of other ...

Great old trees are not unique to Colorado or the ... “There were once thousands of cultivated apple varieties, and now we’re down to hundreds,” says Vanessa Harmony, a tree propagator ...