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.

Yardsmart: Fruit trees offer more than other plants

Decades ago, while designing home sites for orchard farmers in California's Sacramento Valley, I came upon one grove of heirloom white-flesh peaches.

Warm Winter, Frosty Spring Spell Trouble for Grapes and Fruit Trees

The combination of an unusually warm March and sub-freezing temperatures in late April in the Northeast, has led to potentially devastating damage to apples, cherries, grapes and other of the region's vital agricultural crops. Cornell University researchers and Extension specialists can comment on what this might mean for producers and consumers.

Guelph area fruit trees could be fruitless

— Expect far less Ontario-grown fruit in your grocery stores and farmers’ markets this fall, fruit producers are warning. More expensive local fruit is also likely.

Thinning fruit in the home orchard

  BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. - 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.