There's an art to getting the growing environment right for your fruit trees so they can produce plenty of juicy fruit.

The Tree of the Month for August is the Punica granatum, commonly known as the pomegranate tree. A member of the Punicaceae family, this small semi-deciduous tree is steeped in history and romance.

Later, the art extended to growing cultivated trees to duplicate forms in nature, Cohen said. Like in other forms of art, balance, symmetry and depth count in shaping a bonsai. There are informal ...

Dara Solomon, a curator at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, used to ignore trees. Now she sounds like an arborist. Almost two years ago, she began putting together the current ...