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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.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 ...

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.

Vern Nelson: Here's what you need to know before buying fruit trees for your Northwest garden

Here are some rules to buying fruit trees; choose fruit varieties that are easy to maintain; consider naturally small dwarf rootstock and pick bare-root trees for easy to examine root-systems.

How to grow citrus indoors

Tend to your citrus tree through the seasons and it will bear fruit, like this 2-year-old Meyer lemon tree has. A layer of moss helps keep the roots moist.

Free Tree Expert's Visit Open To Public

If you are interested in fruit trees and hearing from true experts on the subject, I invite you to come out to the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners Orchard in North Las Vegas at 2 p.m. Feb. 16 to hear Tom Spellman from Dave Wilson