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I noticed this short black fuzz on the branches of a ~6 year old Contender peach tree in my home orchard yesterday. It covers most branches on this tree, with two primary exceptions - last year's growth and the rough bark on trunk of the tree. Several internet searches and a bunch of articles...

A friend contacted me this week asking for help to identify a young oak tree. It's a seedling grown from one of several acorns retrieved during some sort of ancestry/heritage excursion to Salm, France around 15 years ago. That's why we think it's a European variety of oak. This tree seems to be...

Just posting to share an observation. My thermometer recorded 25 degrees in the home garden and orchard Saturday night. Most of the apple trees were covered in fully open blossoms and I believe that many of those blossoms were killed. Sunday morning the bright white color of the healthy, living...

Late last fall I discovered that one of the wild apple trees on my home property was dropping apples of an outstanding quality. This tree is a true forest apple - 20' straight, tall, 6" dbh, and a small crown of branches at the top - growing 20 yards inside the forest. In the past two years I...