Growing fruit trees in the Northwest can be a very rewarding venture. There is nothing quite like going out to the back yard and picking a handful of tree-ripened cherries, a juicy Asian pear or ...

Growing fruit trees can be intimidating, especially when topics like cross-pollination, pests, late frosts, and diseases come ...

Pollination underpins fruit set and quality in tree crops, driving yield stability and nutritional value on a global scale. Mechanisms range from self-pollination, in which a flower’s own pollen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apple trees grow in an orchard. - John Coletti/Getty Images Growing your own fruit at home can be a challenge if you have a ...

Don Kinzler answers questions about the best time to prune a rose bush and cross-pollination. He also gives a reader a recommendation for an evergreen tree that won't grow taller than 25 feet ...

Australian allodapines and European honey bees are distant relatives that converge to pollinate apple (Central Asian origin) in a Blue Mountains orchard. New research led by Western Sydney University, ...

Q. I have an Asian pear that I planted several years ago but it has never fruited. This spring it had lots of blooms, but it still doesn’t look like it has set any fruit. Can you tell me what is wrong ...

If you plant a seed from a Gala apple, the chances are one in a hundred (or less) that the fruit produced from the tree that grows will be sweet. As Henry David Thoreau remarked, such seedling-grown ...