Q: We really enjoyed your article about fruit trees. We have a 23-year-old mango tree which is about 15 feet tall and 15 feet wide, it definitely bears more fruit every other year. We have never ...

Question. One of the trunks of my ligustrum and some additional limbs are dead. I prune them off when noted and apply a fungicide. What else can I do? Answer. Some young but mainly older ligustrums ...

Question: My neighbor had a large tree topped by about half because of concern about it damaging her house in a storm. Do you think I should have my trees topped too? Answer: Large trees growing near ...

Question: Our mango tree got hit by the cold and the outside branches are brown and leaves are falling. Do we need to prune these branches? Answer: Do the needed pruning to remove the dead or damaged ...

February through March is one of the best times to prune shade trees — if and when they need pruning. Chip Murrow, community forester with the Nebraska Forest Service, was in Columbus last week to ...

What’s a beneficial plant for the vegie patch? TAMMY: Check out the Mexican marigold, Tagetes lemmonii, which flowers in the cooler months and into spring. This large, bushy shrub attracts lots of ...

Mango tree (Mangifera indica) are rewarding yet somewhat tricky to grow, forming dense canopies of long, oblong leaves and producing white flowers from December to March. They flourish in tropical and ...