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Growing delicious cherries doesn't have to be complicated. Explore 16 cherry tree varieties that are easy to plant and maintain, for a harvest of juicy delight.
Have you ever sat beneath the branches of a stately weeping willow in full bloom in late winter? Or have you ever taken in ...
When you plant a cherry tree in your backyard, you can choose from a potted or bare-root tree, depending on how they are sold at your local garden center. A bare-root tree is sold without any soil.
Great Plant Pick: Prunus laurocerasus ‘Mount Vernon,’ dwarf English laurel. Plant “Mount Vernon” as a low informal bed border or small hedge, or as a groundcover under trees and large shrubs.
Additionally, the Alaska Botanical Garden has many varieties of trees, shrubs and vines for you to view on their grounds. Trees thrive when they’re planted in the right place. Planting a tree is ...
Prunus serotina, also commonly called wild black cherry, rum cherry, or mountain black cherry, is a woody plant species belonging to the genus Prunus.
Alaskans have a love-hate relationship with mayday trees. The mayday tree (Prunus padus), aka European bird cherry, and its cousin the chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) have historically been ...