The secret to the perfect fig is in your shears. A few strategic cuts turn a tangled thicket into a high-yielding masterpiece ...

If you would like to add spring-flowering trees to your landscape, January and February are excellent months to plant them.

Here are 5 things to do in the garden this week: No deciduous tree is more suited to Southern California or easier to grow than the fig. Of all deciduous fruit trees, figs have the lowest winter chill ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 17-year-old boy has been charged in a downtown mass shooting after the Chicago tree lighting ceremony in November, Chicago ...

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A 17-year-old boy was charged as an adult Thursday in a shooting that wounded seven teens under the marquee of the Chicago Theatre downtown right after the city's Christmas tree lighting ceremony in ...

Some trees and shrubs have a bad reputation for being susceptible to diseases: lilacs to powdery mildew, junipers to juniper tip blight, flowering crabapples to apple scab, and elms to Dutch elm ...