Q:We just bought our first home in North County and wewant to plant a variety of citrus trees. We prefer to plant dwarfvarieties, so they stay relatively small and will make it easy forus to prune and ...

Q:I’M inquiring about the availability of dwarf persimmons. A friend has a small yard, and a dwarf tree would be the ideal size. A: There are many different types of dwarf fruit trees, but I’m not ...

If you own or rent a small patch of sun, you can grow apples. So-called dwarf fruit trees, a.k.a. patio apples, are gateway plants for budding urban permaculturists. One of the first things I did when ...

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As we count down to the holidays, many of us add a variety of living plants to augment the season's festive atmosphere: live Christmas trees, Christmas cacti and poinsettias. In the Bay Area, citrus ...

Mandarin orange or Meyer lemon? Today, Dottie Watson has lots of choices. As assistant manager at The Plant Place and owner of her own indoor fruit-producing plants, Watson is sometimes asked for her ...