PEAK TIME This is the height of apple and pear blossom season. If it's a good year for flowers, hopefully more fruit will appear. But rainfall, temperature, and the risk of late frosts also play a ...

Blossom is the flowers produced by stone fruit trees, for example plums, cherries, apples and hawthorns. The reason for the trees producing these colourful and sweet-smelling flower is to attract ...

Fruit trees are the envy of neighbours across the UK – until gluts are shared over the fence, of course – and while it can seem like a more advanced gardening skill, growing your own fruit couldn't be ...

The UK is blessed with a large number of trees which break out into blossoms as their leaves begin to thicken out, including the crab apple, blackthorn and hawthorn.

The original tree, located at Woolsthorpe Manor in the UK's Lincolnshire, is probably the world's most famous and legendary apple tree as it inspired Newton to discover the law of gravity.

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For apple scab, do one spray now while the tree is dormant and the tips of the buds are green. Spray again later in winter when bud tips are pink, but before blossoms open.