Q: My husband and I just moved to Summerlin, and I am seeing pink and white blooms on trees in this area. Do you know what kind of trees these are? A: Two very popular ornamental trees grown in our ...

Flowering cherries, apricots, plums, crabapples, and such lack the fruit of their fruiting counterparts, but are versatile, ornamental trees.

With the early arrival of spring and the abundance of flowering trees, shrubs, and bulbs that seemed to appear all at once, I recently was challenged to identify specific blooming trees according to ...

NO MATTER WHETHER spring is early or late, warm or disappointing, trees open their blossoms in an age-old sequence. Flowering plums, ornamental cherries, crabapples, magnolias and dogwoods hold their ...

In Los Angeles, February is known as the month when winter merges into spring. The Super Bowl, in early February, coincides with a major botanical event: the onset of flowering — known scientifically ...

I appreciate all the responses and positive feedback I received from last week’s column on “The Curse of the Bradford Pear.” While I have been espousing the evils of this tree for years, something ...

"They sit all winter long waiting to spring into action," Laverne said. "Either it's going to work for them, or it's not." Early-blooming trees -- butterfly bush, sumac, snowberry, silk tree and ...

Q: I would like to plant an attractive tree, preferably flowering, in my Noe Valley backyard. Two things I am concerned about are water requirements and vermin. Both plum and cherry trees seem to do ...

OAKLAND — Dotted along the thoroughfares and side streets throughout the Bay Area are bursts of pink and white blooms of the Flowering Plum tree, an ornamental, non-fruiting tree with flowers so ...