Fruit trees can add a burst of color and a tasty treat to your backyard. But, be sure to pick the right trees and avoid these invasive or troublesome varieties. ... Plant: Wild Plum.

Some of the best include persimmon, wild plum, pawpaw, chokecherries, and serviceberries. In addition, persimmon trees grow to around 65 feet tall, but the fruit drops when ripe, so harvesting is ...

Although plum trees are one of the best fast-growing fruit trees to grow, when starting a tree from a stone it will take ...

It’s normal for fruit trees to drop some fruit early in the summer to stay healthy and balanced. Pollination problems, pests, ...

How wild fig trees can help monitor mercury pollution. A study indicates that the trees could provide effective, inexpensive checks of conditions near small-scale gold mines. April 20, 2025.

Experts from key state and civil society organizations are joining forces to protect what could be the last wild olive trees in Israel. The plants — many looking more like bushes, with tiny ...

Wild plum trees are "very popular" in native landscaping because of their fruit-producing capabilities, support for pollinators and broad white petal flowers and fragrance, according to MDC.

The wild horses on North Carolina’s Outer Banks have been seen chewing on trees in a phenomenon that has nothing to do with a food shortage on the barrier islands.. It’s persimmon season ...

It was a simple message Friday: a little pruning can bring healing and better growth. The hands-on training was practiced Friday on wild plum trees at Lincoln University's Alan T. Busby Farm.

Stock image of a wild boar with its large tusks on display. A New Zealand man was attacked by a large wild pig at his home, and had a dislocated shoulder and was knocked unconscious.