Support local journalism by subscribing at Special Offers - USAToday Network. Charlene Peacock has been enjoying the fruits of her gardening labor for three decades. At her riverfront home in Grant, ...

Ask a member of the Brevard Tropical Fruit Club why they plant fruit trees, and they will wax poetic about the experience. “Planting a fruit tree isn’t just about adding to your garden, it’s about ...

Mike Barron has seen a lot more customers come in to buy fruit trees in the past year. Barron, owner of Blooming House Nursery in Newberry, attributes the increased demand to a landscaping trend ...

When the annual Rare Fruit Tree Sale was held at the Manatee County Convention Center in Palmetto, a crowd of several hundred would line up well before the doors opened. There was always something of ...

Last week, we traveled vicariously to visit the tropical fruits of the New World. This week, let us imagine that we are in the jungles of Borneo, home of orangutans, proboscis monkeys and humans who ...

It’s amazing what you can do with a third of an acre of land. Take Alex Silber, for example. On a piece of ground this size, he is growing 52 exotic fruit trees, shrubs, and vines, 9 exotic herbs and ...

Lychee is a unique tropical fruit tree with distinctive fruits that appear like strawberries covered with rough, dimpled skin. The exotic fruits are a staple in Asian markets and are now increasingly ...

We have come to a time when we need to depend more on our gardens and what they can produce to keep our food costs lower and products locally grown. Humans have had an impact on the world’s ecosystems ...

Growing pawpaw in Invercargill and bananas in Waikato is not such a weird idea these days, a tropical fruit tree grower says. Aaron McCloy of Far North Tropicals is sending his warmth-loving plants ...