Q: We really enjoyed your article about fruit trees. We have a 23-year-old mango tree which is about 15 feet tall and 15 feet wide, it definitely bears more fruit every other year. We have never ...

Plant a mango tree in a warm and tropical climate and it will flourish. The trees can grow large and produce a great crop of fruits year after year. That may all sound great, but it can come with ...

Question. One of the trunks of my ligustrum and some additional limbs are dead. I prune them off when noted and apply a fungicide. What else can I do? Answer. Some young but mainly older ligustrums ...

STAR-ADVERTISER / 2002 Purie mangoes are one of the sweetest varieties. They may be alive, but will not fruit well if they are hacked by bad pruning. Keep your tree short enough for safe picking and ...

Growing, blooming and fruiting in the heat of summer, enduring the cold of winter and the fury of hurricanes, mangoes have made this land their home — the warm, southern extreme of South Florida ...

COURTESY JENSEN UYEDA Rapoza mangoes filled a Waimanalo tree in December, after flowering was forced during summer’s dry conditions. The tree was pruned to stay small, making the fruit easy to pick.