If you love the heady scent of this compact shrub's flowers, put those shears down. Prune in fall and you risk removing buds ...

A question for Dan Gill: Our sweet olive has been in the ground about four years and is about 6 feet tall. We've heard these trees can grow to be about 12 to 14 feet tall. I'd like to prune off some ...

TORRETTA, Sicily >> Watching Giovanni Caruso prune an olive tree is like observing a mountain climber decide how to reach the next hand-grip in a cliff. He chooses his path with deliberation. He even ...

Q: I have two mature olive trees in my back yard. They do not fruit. I would like to know how much to water them especially now in the hot Tucson summer. Also both have sprouted suckers and I am not ...

After fruit was thinned to 8 inches apart, this 5-year-old tree still produced 84 large apples. Many fruit trees — including semidwarf varieties — can easily grow to 15 feet and taller. Anyone who has ...

“Mad pruner” is apt. Sometimes it looks like they were mad at the trees. But seriously, olive trees can be pruned in various styles and recover from almost anything. I suspect the severe pruning is ...

Last week’s column described basic techniques for pruning small deciduous trees and bushes for home gardeners. Pruning larger landscape or fruit and nut trees is not a job for the home gardener with ...

Identifying a dominant leader and cutting away any competing leaders when a tree is young will allow it to grow more robustly and live longer, said a local certified arborist. Contact Curtis Short: ...

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