This is Fruit Tree planting and pruning season. International arborist/ horticulturist and Chief Arborist for the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, Rico Montenegro will again be teaching fruit tree care and pruning classes during the month of January. Classes are free… Continue Reading
Fruit Tree pruning season has arrived. International arborist/ horticulturist and Chief Arborist for the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, Rico Montenegro will again be teaching fruit tree care and pruning classes during the month of January. Classes are free and will… Continue Reading
It’s a new year. And in the first days of this New Year, I’m planting a new garden. In many ways, this garden – like this year – is a blank slate. The new garden is on an oddly shaped… Continue Reading
The first few months of the new year is the season for cutting back – in our lives and in our gardens. Throughout the region nurseries and gardening groups offer pruning demonstrations and workshops for deciduous trees (particularly fruit trees)… Continue Reading
We as gardeners face many dilemmas, some more difficult than others. For many gardeners, pruning falls under the heading of garden dilemma. Every year, I get questions regarding how and when to prune various things in our North State gardens.… Continue Reading
Winter in the garden involves – or is supposed to involve – a lot of pruning. In January of 2010, I recorded an interview with horticulturist and arborist Rico Montenegro, working with the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, about the pruning… Continue Reading
How’s the pruning going for you? I’ve just finished pruning my ‘Pink Lady’ apple and ‘Santa Rosa’ plum trees. I am still working on the roses and grapes, but the fruit trees are done. It went pretty well this year… Continue Reading
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