The first step to quickly transforming your yard into an orchard is selecting trees that fruit between one and five years.

In place of the Bradford pear, plant wild plum (Prunus americana) instead. It's a single-trunked, drought-resistant tree native to the central and east U.S., mostly planted for its ornamental and ...

This guide introduces the different varieties. This type of ume is close to the original species that evolved from the wild plum. They are said to descend from the plums that were introduced from ...