Hybrid fruit trees are often hardier. They can also produce delicious fruit in more abundance than their parents. That's a boon for birds visiting your yard.

A welcome sight each spring, cherry trees provide some of the first blossoms of the season. Fragrant, single- or double-flowers cover the small tree’s leafless branches. There are two groups of cherry ...

Fast-growing flowering trees add beauty to your landscape, rewarding you with lovely blooms and towering stature in just a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Someone picking bright red cherries - Shcherbyna Nataliia/Shutterstock Summer brings magic to your backyard when you can choose ...

Nothing beats a cherry blossom in spring. The hard part is choosing which one. Keep reading for a list of the best cherry ...

Nothing signals the changing of the seasons like the sight of blossom in the garden. After the dark and cold months of winter ...

Spring-flowering trees bring color and beauty to our late winter and spring landscapes. The earliest flowering types typically begin to bloom in late January or February (although they are blooming a ...

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Many small ornamental trees brighten the Chicago region with their spring blooms: redbuds, crabapples, serviceberries, magnolias, wild plums and many more. Cherries, not so much. The Japanese cherry ...