Wild plums are commonly found growing along Missouri highways and backyards. A workshop on Friday will demonstrate the best methods for ensuring the fruit can be harvested and eaten. Lincoln ...

Nebraska trees are displaying some pretty colors this spring, and that includes the wild plum thickets you might see on rural roadsides. The wild plum is a shrub, and is known to grow in thickets. The ...

An abundance of varieties, each with a different texture, taste and colour, is available to plant in even the smallest garden ...

Unlike all the fancy and popular Japanese plums and European prunes, wild plum, Prunus americana, is almost never planted intentionally. It is a common understock for the more desirable types, and ...

A new study on chimpanzees in Uganda and Côte d'Ivoire supports a theory that humans may have inherited a taste for alcohol ...

What would be a good choice of perennials for the front of my yard? The area is shady, I already have ferns growing there and would like plants that look good with those. My yard also has frequent ...

I would like to add some native trees to my yard. I am also interested in adding fruit production to my gardening plan. What Missouri native trees would be appropriate for landscaping and also produce ...

How do the insect pests find our gardens hidden amongst the trees? Gardeners that grow vine crops are likely familiar with the striped cucumber beetle. It gets my vote for worst vegetable garden pest.

There's a subliminal charm to watching birds stuffing their beaks with berries. Unless, of course, it's the dead of the ...

Western North Dakota grows wild plums. In the patches of brush where the poison ivy sneaks and the cows go to get away from the flies. They start as blossoms on the thorny branches and, under the hot ...

The Springfield News-Leader in Springfield, Missouri, partners with the Master Gardeners of Green County each week to bring readers a question-and-answer column with some of the expert horticulturists ...