It's planting season for fruit trees, which means exactly squat to most San Franciscans. Typically, trees for sale this time of year --like cherries, peaches and apricots -- require nice, hot ...

"Prune potted fruit trees during late winter or early spring when they are dormant and before new growth begins," says Justin Hancock, horticulturalist at Costa Farms.

It’s important to know how to prune a lemon tree if you want a healthy plant abundant with zesty fruit. Lemon trees are a popular addition to patios, and make delightful house plants in conservatories ...

Also, fruit tree roots are fast growing and often the potted trees you find are pot-bound, meaning their roots are circling around inside the container. This can lead to issues with girdling and ...

You could start a kumquat tree from seeds you spit out of store-bought fruit, but it could take 10 years for it to bear fruit. If you have a friend with a kumquat plant, you could propagate a new ...

Fruit trees can be purchased “bare root” or as potted plants. Bare-root plants are often available earlier in the spring and can be considerably less expensive.

PANAJI: With people in Goa increasingly opting to live in apartments which have little to no open space for planting trees, the novelty of potted fruit trees comes as a welcome relief. Much along ...

Dear Neil: Is it possible to get a Mandarin orange and a lime tree to bear fruit if I have them in patio pots indoors during the winter and outside in the summer? They are about 5 feet tall. The ...

News; Washington Voices; Fruit trees can flourish here with proper care Thu., Feb. 25, 2010 Chrys Ostrander plants a peach tree, placing the root flare just below the soil.Special to (Pat Munts ...

<strong>DEAR NEIL:</strong> Is it possible to get a Mandarin orange and a lime tree to bear fruit if I have them in patio pots indoors during the winter and outside ...