A person touches the bottom of a pear as it hangs on the tree. - Ingwervanille/Getty Images If you haven't been fortunate enough to grow and care for a pear tree in your backyard, you might not know ...

Many homeowners enjoy growing their own fruit, but they have also learned that they require a lot of care to approach the quality of products obtained from a commercial orchard or grocery store.

I have been wanting to order some butterfly bushes, wanting to attract more butterflies to my garden. A friend told me these are invasive. Is this true? Butterfly bushes are actually quite invasive, ...

Like many people in Beaver County, I grew up in a house next to my grandparents' home, and like many homes, ours was backed up to a decent-sized patch of woods. If you went in the woods and down the ...

Many of the most popular fruit trees, including apples, pears, cherries, and apricots, can all be successfully grown in pots with little fuss. Most types of fruit trees now come in dwarfing varieties ...