Yardsmart: Fruit trees offer more than other plants

Decades ago, while designing home sites for orchard farmers in California's Sacramento Valley, I came upon one grove of heirloom white-flesh peaches.

Joshua Siskin: Coffee, trumpets and other delights

I had never seen a coffee plant produce fruit in the Valley until being confronted with a robust specimen thriving in a container on Jerry Esten's shaded patio. The plant is bedecked with a plenitude of coffee cherries, or fruit, which, although green, will eventually turn red, each containing two coffee beans, or seeds.

Young Trees Can Still Produce Some Fruit

I am on assignment in northern Afghanistan now, but my readers will still be able to follow the answers to my gardening questions here in the newspaper as well as on my blog. So keep the questions coming! Q: I don't know how old my peach tree is. I assume

In the Garden, May 19-26

Experts with the California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers say: Divide and replant iris clumps that have become crowded.

GOOD Attacks! Hunger with 13,484 Pounds of Fruit

  Last Sunday we pulled off  our latest GOOD Attacks! event, teaming up with Los Angeles-based nonprofit Food Forward to pick surplus fruit from the orange groves at California State University at Northridge. Food Forward was founded by Rick Nahmais, a Los Angeles-based writer, photographer, and filmmaker, who noticed that his neighborhood had several local gardens from which the produce wasn't ...