Hedge apples: Benefits and uses of the Osage orange
The Osage orange tree, native to Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, was once prized for its hardy wood and thorny branches, but ...
Deer hunting in a bumper crop year: How to capitalize on ample apples, acorns, nuts
The forest floor is now littered with apples and acorns. Outdoors Columnist Oak Duke shares what that means for deer hunting ...
Falling for Oak Glen, an apple-centric getaway in the San Bernardino Mountains
Despite the cloud of sobering news hovering above us, we stopped midway at Oak Tree Mountain, a 14-acre family-fun park with ...
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A 20-year quest to bring back Colorado’s rarest apple that was once thought lost
A 20-year quest to rediscover the Colorado Orange apple is seeing the fruits of its labor. But initial taste tests have been ... lackluster.
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Meet the American who first planted apples in the colonies: William Blaxton, eccentric settler
This fall, tip your basket to William Blaxton when you pluck a plump apple from a tree, bob for apples on Halloween or cherish your grandmother's amazing apple pie on Thanksgiving. Reverend Blaxton, ...
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6 Plants to Grow That'll Make Your Patio More Private — And Add Beautiful Form and Color to Your Yard
Leave the guesswork out of your patio with this advice on the plants experts will always pick for increasing privacy ...
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Malus domestica 'Blue Moon' (D)
A non-branching, columnar tree about 2.5m tall and 50cm wide, producing flowers and fruit from short shoots all along the main trunk. Dull, bluish-purple and green apples have crisp, juicy, ...
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The search for the perfect apple
So the first big decision – which apple tree to plant? I’ve decided I need a small apple tree – we have a 10m x 5m garden, and I think it would become a nice focal point that I can build the rest of ...