A. Hello again, Karole. The best time to prune a plum tree is in late winter just before bud break, and the advice you were given notwithstanding, plum trees fruit best with rather severe pruning.

Most fruit trees require full sun, which means at least 6 to 8 hours of direct sunlight every day to fruit, but they'll fruit ...

Summer pruning tips for flowering ornamentals, fruit trees Pruning is a huge subject because of the immense number and kinds of plants. So let’s focus on woody flowering ornamentals and fruit trees.

I received an email inquiring about pruning practices and immediately began to ruminate on the possibility of a connection between the act of pruning and the fruit known as a prune. It turns out ...

It's pruning time! Give your fruit trees the benefits of greater sunlight penetration and better fruit! Plus, Mike offers 10 tips for pruning success.

Plum trees are susceptible to diseases that have the potential to be more problematic when pruning is done in wet weather.

After Pellier’s initial venture failed, he brought a plum tree rootstock from his home of Agen in the southwest of France, near Bordeaux. Cuttings from this Petite d’Agen variety were grafted onto a ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Viewers get a live demonstration and handy pruning tips for trees. As the Metro area sees signs of Spring, the time is right to revisit tree health. An expert Horticulturist ...

Here are a few easy-to-follow guidelines for the two most important, but least practiced, of all tree-maintenance tasks: pruning and fertilizing. (Note that these suggestions are general guidelines.