Q: About 15-20 years ago my son gave my husband a banana tree that was about 3 feet tall. It sat outside in the hot sun in the summer and in the low 20s in the winter. We live in the Tanque Verde area ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - If you are willing to wheel a tree in and out of your house (or heated patio) twice a year, welcome to the wide world of container tree options. By taking freezing ...

I saw an ad for a mail-order nursery offering several dwarf citrus plants that can be grown in containers. I would like to order some but am concerned about how successful they might be in this area.

I like maximising growing space for food crops, so in this example, I have a fig tree growing in a container with an undergrowth of banana mint! The mint helps as a companion by keeping the weeds and ...

If you want the experience of going into your yard to pick tasty fruit from your own trees, now's the time to plant, said Tim Holcomb, owner of Holcomb Garden Centers in Hixson and Fort Oglethorpe, Ga ...

When most people think of container gardening, they think that seasonal pots of annuals are their only choice. While annuals do provide more options when it comes to providing color all summer long, ...

Inside Westminster Abbey, eight 20-foot-tall live trees lined the center aisle during the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William. The trees transformed the space, doing what even the most ...