You'll find several flowering plants are excellent companions for fruit trees, as they have the ability to enrich the soil, attract predatory insects, deter pests, and keep weeds at bay.

It flowers in the early spring as it should and produces fruit, albeit, its fruit is nasty and dry. The canopy is about 10 percent of what it should be, and I suspect sunburn has been choking the ...

The flowers of fruit trees are sensitive to late spring frosts. Temperatures below 29 degrees prevent fruit formation. Once the flower buds begin to swell and develop, there is a risk of frost damage.

The hallmarks of a New England summer are heat and humidity; the amount of each, respectively, can render conditions pleasant ...

The peach tree produced lots of small fruit, but the orange tree produced tons of flowers but fruit that dropped from it after it flowered. The trees don’t look so good now. Your opinion, please?

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. I was wondering if you could provide me with a list of which fruit trees ...