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

I live 1.5 miles from the ocean in Costa Mesa and have three pomegranate trees producing about 50 to 70 fruit per year. They are 12 feet tall, 12 feet wide and have been in the ground about 20 years.

The preponderance of male pomegranate flowers — up to 70% of the flowers on a tree — means you are going to see lots of flower drop since only flowers which turn into fruits (the ...

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.

Pomegranate soup is one way to enjoy the fruit's warming effects; it uses either the juice or seeds. One of the earliest cultivated fruits, the pomegranate has been traced back as far as 3,000 B.C.

Q: Do pomegranate trees need cross pollination? This is the second year my single tree has had flowers but still no fruit. Do I need a second tree in order to get fruit? — D.P., Houston A ...

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 ...

Young trees should receive about 2 to 2 1/2 pounds of 8-8-8 (or similar) fertilizer in November and March. Mature trees require 4 1/2 to 6 1/2 pounds of a similar fertilizer at the same intervals.

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 ...