If you’re considering adding an apple tree to your home landscape this spring, it’s important to choose an appropriate variety. “The particular variety you plant will affect how many apples you ...

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 ...

Apple scab is one of the most common apple and crabapple diseases that gardeners have to deal with. Apple scab is caused by the fungus Venturia inaequalis. It will attack any varieties of crabapple ...

Q. I know that flowering crabs are subject to injury from fire blight. My crab is resistant to apple scab disease, but it is looking pretty sick now having lost maybe 1/3rd of its leaves, so I am ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. iStock-1435233715 Disease Resistant Apple Woman Picking Apples in Back yard.jpg With more than 7,500 varieties of apples from ...

Q: Can you tell me what is wrong with my crab apple tree, and what I should do about it? The leaves started turning yellow earlier this summer and now there are hardly any leaves left. It looks awful.

Q. The apples on our Prairie Magic tree have round black spots. At first I thought it was bruising from hail but it's also near the bottom of some fruit, where hail couldn't hit. What is this damage ...

Q: I have a white flowering crab that we’ve had for about 20 years. Can you tell me what could possibly be wrong that’s causing the leaf problems, and is there anything I can do? — Christine W. A: We ...

Joellen Dimond plant hollies, and Mr. D. discusses disease-resistant apple tree varieties. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen ...

Don't skip these apple care tasks! A few easy chores in May will help the trees to thrive so you'll get a tasty harvest when ...