‘The best time to plant bare-root fruit trees like apples is towards the end of winter or the first half of spring, once the ...

Plum trees that have just started to bloom are delighting visitors at an annual festival at the Kairakuen garden in Mito City ...

About 300 plum trees of 30 varieties with both red and white blossoms can be found in Iwamotoyama Park, in the foothills of Japan's most famous mountain. Early-blooming varieties began to blossom ...

Pear, plum, fig and medlar trees can also produce good results. Different varieties produce their fruit at different times of year. The fruit of early ripening trees tends not to keep well whereas ...

Plum Festival kicked off at Atami Plum Garden in Shizuoka Prefecture on January 11. Atami Geisha also celebrated by giving a performance at the opening ceremony. The garden boasts 469 plum trees of 60 ...