The new “The Home Orchard” covers more crops and site selection, variety choice, pruning, grafting, irrigation and integrated ...

As a bare-bones winter gives way to the fresh green of spring, and with Earth Day on the horizon next month, now’s the perfect time to lean against a sturdy tree trunk with a book. These loving odes ...

FRESNO, Calif. — Trees can do so many things for a yard. They can shade it. They can give it visual interest with colorful flowers, leaves or bark. But they also might cause problems with aggressive ...

The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession by Amy Stewart. Random House, 2024 ($32) “Growing fruit trees is a very simple way to stay in love with our world,” says Vivian Keh, playwright and ...

Sitting under the wide canopy of a tree can cool you off on a hot summer day and even lower home-energy costs. If your landscape is treeless, the sooner a new tree grows a shady canopy, the better. A ...

Planting fast-growing fruit trees on your property provides delicious, nutrient-rich fruit during harvest time. Fruit trees also provide food and habitat for pollinators and wildlife. We spoke with ...

Patience is a virtue, and many trees require it. "Trees, in general, live on a much longer timeline than we do, with many living for hundreds, and some even thousands of years," says Nancy Gaspari, an ...

Who wouldn't love to grow a mini orchard housing diverse fruit trees to keep us and the pretty birds visiting our backyards satiated year-round. Sadly, with even the youngest seedlings costing over ...

Trees communicate. They migrate. They protect. They heal. This year for Arbor Day this year we climbed into the NPR archives to find our favorite arboreal fiction, nonfiction and kids' books. Scroll ...

There are some 73,000 species of trees on Earth, according to one recent estimate. The writer Daniel Lewis zeroed in on a tiny fraction of them for his new book, "Twelve Trees." Each chapter is one ...

Trees are living museums and their rings are able to shed light on climate change, colony collapses, archeology, tsunamis, fire histories and radio carbon dating. Each year tree species in the ...