Are you about to plant your first plum tree? Find out which variety works best in your region, how and when to plant the tree ...

‘The best time to plant bare-root fruit trees like apples is towards the end of winter or the first half of spring, once the ground is no longer frozen so it can be easily dug, but before new growth ...

This is the time to prune evergreen shrubs, but try to avoid formal shearing whenever possible. It’s best to allow shrubs to ...

The only thing you can do catastrophically wrong is to remove all the 2-year-old wood on apples, pears, and European plums.

The main pruning job is to remove some of the extra ... Apple, pear, cherry, apricot and plum trees bear most of their fruit on short, twiggy branches called spurs. These should not be removed ...

The UK is a nation of gardeners, with green-fingered experts found maintaining their grass, bushes and flowers across the ...

For apple scab, do one spray now while the tree is dormant and the tips of the buds are green. Spray again later in winter ...

The trees along all the major parade routes get swamped with beads during Mardi Gras. Many of the beads stay in the trees for ...

Let’s assess where we are now in our gardening world. If you have peach and plum trees, you need to finish your pruning immediately. Warm weather will have them in bloom before you know it.

We have been very happy with our compacta nandinas that we planted eight or 10 years ago. They have made a nice, solid bed 30 ...

The Royal Horticultural Society has shared insights for garden lovers, suggesting that a tree stump need not be an eyesore ...