New blooms planted: Volunteers added 50 crab apple trees to Apple Creek Trail, bringing the total to 250 trees over five years. Festival launch: Appleton’s first Apple Blossom Festival opens Friday ...

Broadly speaking, apples grow on trees in two basic configurations, spur bearing and tip bearing. The most common type we see nowadays are spur-bearing trees. Spurs are modified shoots usually less ...

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 ...

There is one beautiful flower that adds fragrance and elegance to any garden, and it's especially valuable when planted under fruit trees. That's because this flowering herb supports pollination and ...

Planting wildflowers in apple orchards could save farmers up to 3,000 per hectare a year, according to a new study. Planting wildflowers in apple orchards could save farmers up to £3,000 per hectare a ...