Discover Mark’s top five easy-to-grow fruit trees perfect for any home garden! From hardy lemon trees to productive plums, mulberries, kumquats, and apples, learn which varieties thrive in containers, ...

Dreaming of stepping into your backyard to pick fresh, juicy fruit straight from the tree? It might seem like a project reserved for seasoned gardeners with more free time (especially when harvest ...

There's little as rewarding as eating homegrown fruit. The good news: Many varieties — like mulberry and lemon trees — don't require a large backyard to flourish. While it's true that some fruit trees ...

In these sometimes gloomy days of June, when it seems like the sun will never shine again and the mercury will never get above 60 degrees, Mother Nature has provided us with some bright spots of color ...

I came across this black cherry tree while hiking on Mt. Greylock in November. Note the flaky gray bark and the huge “knot” that is an indication of an infection of the black knot fungus. No other ...