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‘Our cherry tree has stopped fruiting. What can we do?’

The Irish Times 23 Mar 2025
There’s always a risk of causing damage to fruit trees if pruned too harshly or at the wrong time of year, so you’re right to be cautious ... Fruiting cherry trees (as opposed to the ornamental varieties) are loosely divided into two types.
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Bradford pears may be pretty, but pack an environmental punch. How to get rid of the trees

The Oklahoman 23 Mar 2025
A Bradford pear tree in bloom is a sure sign that springtime is in the air ... The fruits the trees produce are also inedible to humans and provide little to no food for insects, harming the ecosystem.
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Ask the Master Gardener: Thinking about planting peach trees in Missouri? What to know

Springfield News-Leader 23 Mar 2025
Before moving a tree or shrub of fair size, some earlier prep will help reduce transplant shock and increase chance of a successful move ... After bloom has stopped, the tree can be cut back by about half ... This is a problem with other fruit trees as well.
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Don’t write off Florida citrus industry | Opinion

News-Press - Fort Myers 23 Mar 2025
With Milton striking just before harvest, we saw a significant amount of fruit loss and damaged trees ... against citrus greening, helping trees produce larger, healthier fruit and reducing fruit drop.
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John Rocha loses his calm in Killiney as he objects to ‘Trojan horse’ development

The Irish Times 23 Mar 2025
Carrickmoleen, dating from the 1800s, came with sprawling gardens, greenhouses and fruit trees – ideal for a keen gardener such as the fashion designer.
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Pope returns to Vatican after long hospitalization

Catholic Standard 23 Mar 2025
The pope's message focused on the day's Gospel reading of the parable of the fig tree from Luke 13.1-9, in which a gardener asks a landowner to allow him to spare a fig tree that had not borne fruit ...
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Garden Talk: 3 things we can do in our Michigan gardens now

Michigan Live 23 Mar 2025
We can prune shrubs and trees now ... Fruit trees should be pruned now ... If you find yourself with the issue of a hydrangea or any other shrub being too big and too close to your house it’s a good time now to dig up those shrubs and trees.
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The basics of making cuttings from your houseplants

Grand Forks Herald 23 Mar 2025
Why you need to prune your apple trees. If left to their own devices, most apple trees grow into large, globe-shaped trees, with the best fruit forming on the tree’s outer perimeter, high above convenient apple-picking height.
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Te Ipukarea Society: Cycles, coconuts, salmon and us

Cook Islands News 23 Mar 2025
June and Andrew Hosking experienced this firsthand when they moved to Ma’uke. At first, the mature coconut trees bore no fruit. But once they settled on the land full-time, the trees began to produce, and now they have the sweetest nu ... An example ... ....
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#wegotmail: The law in the spotlight: A nation grapples with legalese

Sun Star 23 Mar 2025
Social media is now rife with discussions about jurisprudence, constitutional rights, Supreme Court decisions, and legal doctrines like the “fruit of the poisonous tree.” Laypeople are talking about ...
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Terrence ‘Terry’ Yochum

The Lewiston Tribune 23 Mar 2025
He was 77. Born on Nov. 12, 1947, Dad was the eighth of 10 children of Raymond and Olive (Jones) Yochum ... Army in 1968 ... We were raised with a big garden, fruit trees and were taught the same resourcefulness Dad learned from being raised on a farm ... 1024 ... .
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A call to repentance

Manila Bulletin 22 Mar 2025
“There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard, and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none, he said to the gardener, ‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none.
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Garden Help Desk: Spring really is here, and some crops can be started now

Provo Daily Herald 22 Mar 2025
I have a couple of fruit trees in Highland and have been having trouble with my Utah Giant Cherry ... It is common on fruit trees and can also affect some shade tree species ... Stressed fruit trees are more susceptible to Cytospora canker.
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UI researchers on hunt for heritage apples

The Lewiston Tribune 22 Mar 2025
Unkempt groves of fruit trees are the last vestiges of historic homesteads once scattered throughout central Idaho’s Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness ... The trees should grow to be about 20 to ...
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Community orchards bloom as growers harvest forgotten plots

The Times/The Sunday Times 22 Mar 2025
With the spring sun shining down, Paul Wiggins is pruning apple, pear, damson and other fruit trees on the outskirts of Brighton ... You could be forgiven for missing the young trees of this ...
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