Fruit update: Southwest Michigan apples, peaches very hard hit by spring freezes, Extension reports

Apples suffered severe damage from April’s freezes. Many orchards have little if any fruit.

The Stunning Red Cotton Tree

Locally known as the Malabulak, the Red Cotton tree sheds its leaves before it blooms with fiery red flowers during the summer.   MANILA, Philippines — The Malabulak, or Kapok, is a very unique tree. It sheds its seeds with cotton ball-like appendages during the summer months, thus making our summers look as if it’s actually winter!  The show gets even more spectacular during the tree’s blooming ...

Dreaming dreams of tamarillo

It's a tamarillo tragedy.

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.

Thinning Fruit in the Home Orchard

Sometimes fruit trees try to produce more fruit than is good for the plant. Poor fruit size and flavor, plant stress, and alternate bearing can result when certain types of fruit trees aren't properly thinned.