While in school, every child learns the basic parts of a flower and how insects, such as bees, buzz from flower to flower, ...

Learn how to grow figs right in your backyard.

MOUNT VERNON, Mo. - People could sniff flowers, look at figs on a tree and see more than a half-acre plot of asparagus during the horticulture tour that was part of the University of Missouri ...

Q: When I was growing up, my grandparents in the Bronx had a large fig tree. They went through the ritual of wrapping and covering it every fall. I will never forget the taste of sweet fruit that came ...

Growing a papaya tree is a simple matter. If you plant papaya seeds now from store-bought fruit, you will probably see a crop within a year. Papaya trees will die in a frost but they may be grown ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The common fig (Ficus carica) is a small tree native to southwest Asia but ...