People travel thousands of miles for the opportunity to experience the jaw-dropping blooms of ornamental cherry trees in ...

Yoshino cherry trees make for beautiful blooms in spring, but there are lots of factors that may affect their health. Here's ...

Autumn may mean the end of the gardening year but some plants go out not with a whimper but with an explosion of colour.

Cherry trees need exposure to a “sufficient chill ... When this happens, we tend to see delayed flowering, reduced flower and fruit production, and generally ‘confused’ trees,” she ...

With its shimmering harbour and tiara of snowcapped peaks, it’s little wonder Vancouver consistently rates in lists of the ...

Last week I touched a nerve with my discussion of ornamental pears and the process of topping to preserve these trees. I rather expected this reaction as I penned the article. I knew I was pushing ...

Flowering Pear, Cherry, and Crabapple: These non-fruiting trees create magical snowscapes of pink and white blossoms in late spring. The display is so beautiful, you’d be a true idiot to do ...

Late summer to early fall is the worst time to prune trees. Here's when you should prune them instead for the healthiest ...

Every spring, cherry blossoms erupt across the globe, drawing nature seekers far and wide to observe the stunning pale pink flowers in their prime. And each year, the Japan Meteorological ...

But whoever dreamed up the worst pruning practice for any tree — topping ornamental pears to “save them” from their fate — is out of their mind. Let me back up and explain. Ornamental pear ...

The exceptions to the 'deciduous tree' rule are maple, horse chestnut, birch, walnut and cherry trees which all bleed extensively, even towards the end of their dormant season, so prune these in ...

It was all in a day’s work for the 29th annual Waipawa Spring Festival, aka Duck Day. “It was very busy, but the only hiccups ...