If you're interested in growing fruit trees in your garden, consider choosing native varieties. Native fruit trees require less maintenance than non-native ones because they are well-adapted to the ...

Q. I enjoy the Plant Medic column. Do you have any knowledge about the sad condition of crabapple trees in the Allen County area? Is there a blight going amongst them? A. Crabapples are native to both ...

What's the difference between a crabapple tree and an apple tree? This might sound like a setup for a joke, but it's a real question you might find yourself asking when that tree in your yard starts ...

RICHMOND — The dolgo crab apple tree wakes up early — several days before our other apple trees stir from their long winter’s nap. And it blooms full, white from a distance, touched with pink up close ...

Today I started pruning out the water sprouts in my four crabapple trees. Some people might call these “suckers,” but suckers grow up from the bottom of the trunk and water sprouts grow in the upper ...

We have a Prairiefire crabapple tree that has severe splitting in almost all of the major branches. There is some evidence of old bark splits that have healed over that we did not notice until ...

Q: I want to get a red delicious and winesap apple trees. I know the winesap has sterile pollen, so it will not help the delicious with producing fruit. However, I heard having a crabapple tree nearby ...