One of the many benefits of gardening is having readily available fruits and vegetables right in your backyard. Orange trees ...

White capote has the potential to reach 50 feet in height and tolerate wetter soil than most fruit trees and will yield a ...

I have two orange trees that were planted 12 years ago. They bore beautiful fruit until four years ago, when my gardener pruned them rather severely. Since that pruning, no more fruit at all.

I have an orange tree that just grew in my backyard. The oranges are very sour. What do I put on them to make them sweet? Nothing you put on them will help. This orange is from a plant that had sou… ...

Q. Our young navel orange tree has a tall sprout coming up the middle. This is the first year the sprout has grown leaves; before it was just thorns. Should this sprout be cut off? This year’s ...

It’s the mother tree, the tree from which all navel oranges in the United States trace their roots. Planted in 1873 by a Riverside woman, the parent Washington navel orange tree has lasted 148 ...

Identify the graft union on the orange tree. The graft union is a diagonal scar approximately 6 to 12 inches above the ground, depending on the age and size of the tree.

This disease affects mostly orange and grapefruit trees that have been grafted. It causes trees to slowly decline. Once the main scaffold branches die, the trees become unproductive.

"It had a lot of moving parts to get it all done in one day," Pettit said. "All hands on deck." The tree's new home is in the Floriculture Greenhouse. They hope this will be its home for the next ...