Tom Karwin: Selecting fruit trees for your yard

Our weather continues to be cool, so February is still a good time to plant bare root roses and trees—especially fruit trees, for their productivity. Garden centers have good inventories of both kinds of garden treasures.

Fruit trees: landscaping with taste

Fruit trees: landscaping with taste San Antonio Express-News Copyright 2012 San Antonio Express-News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 06:04 p.m., Friday, January 6, 2012 Fruit trees can convert a strictly ornamental garden into a multipurpose home landscape. Because fruits are good-looking as well as nutritious, they can ...

Gardening: Fruit trees ... the bear essentials

Blossom and fruit drop and fruit splitting are fairly common problems for fruit trees. While losing blossoms and small fruit from your fruit trees can be disturbing it is usually a natural process.

MINTER: Pruning fruit trees is fun and easy

You really don’t have to be an expert to prune fruit trees. All it takes is a little common sense and a few helpful hints.

You can learn about growing fruit trees

A free lecture on fruit tree pruning will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at Wallace's Garden Center & Greenhouses, Bettendorf, as part of the store's winter escape lecture series.