You’d be surprised how long some trees last…if properly maintained…and how soon the trees will start to produce.

Growing, blooming and fruiting in the heat of summer, enduring the cold of winter and the fury of hurricanes, mangoes have made this land their home — the warm, southern extreme of South Florida ...

Excess irrigation will increase the tree’s vulnerability to disease and decrease the quality of its fruit. Overwatering can kill a mango tree. When the trees are grown in harmony with their ...

COURTESY JENSEN UYEDA Rapoza mangoes filled a Waimanalo tree in December, after flowering was forced during summer’s dry conditions. The tree was pruned to stay small, making the fruit easy to pick.

Gardeners love a challenge, and cardiologist Dr. Abdul Ali is no exception. That's why Ali will soon harvest some 50 fruit from the mango tree he nurtured in a pot to maturity before planting in his ...

Question: I have a Valencia seedless orange tree that I set out about 40 years ago. The fruit has always been sweet and juicy. But the past couple of years, the oranges are larger with thicker skin, ...

Question. One of the trunks of my ligustrum and some additional limbs are dead. I prune them off when noted and apply a fungicide. What else can I do? Answer. Some young but mainly older ligustrums ...