For more than 20 years, my serviceberry tree has gifted the birds and me with small, round fruits that taste like almonds when you bake them in muffins. This year, it produced another huge crop, and ...

About 20 years ago, my husband and I bought a house with a yard full of tall live oaks and a little fig tree by the driveway. “The kid who lived here stuck a cutting from my tree in the ground when I ...

For those who celebrate Christmas, this is peak tree-decorating time, a joyous part of the season when families wrap a technically dead and highly flammable fir tree in cheap electrical wires while ...

The holiday tree is the center of many family celebrations. Ornaments collected over the years decorate the boughs while brightly wrapped gifts are carefully placed underneath. But the hunt for the ...

Fruit trees may not produce fruit due to improper tree vigor, often caused by over-fertilization or excessive pruning. Frost damage can prevent fruit set, even if flowers open; choose later-blooming ...

For the past several years I've received requests to reprint a Christmas column I wrote for The Forum in 1988. This season I heard from people who have similar Christmas tree memories. A couple of ...

Whittier residents love their trees, which had me reflecting on a quote, which over time has been attributed to Mark Twain. “Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over.” Ok, there’s debate ...

At the outset of the pandemic in March and the stay-at-home directive, I began working from my home office. The spare bedroom does double duty as an office and a catch-all for things. The room has ...