A mango tree (Mangifera indica) is tricky to grow but can be rewarding. This tree forms a dense canopy of long, oblong green leaves in the right conditions, rewarding you with white flowers from ...

STAR-ADVERTISER / 2002 Purie mangoes are one of the sweetest varieties. They may be alive, but will not fruit well if they are hacked by bad pruning. Keep your tree short enough for safe picking and ...

Time-lapse of germinating and growing a mango tree from store-bought mango's seed. We bought a small ripen mango from the ...

If you, like so many of us, can’t get enough of that glorious golden globe of summer, the mango, you’re in luck. Turns out that, among all tropical fruit trees, mangoes are the easiest to grow. “It’s ...

Julie asks: My mango tree put out tons of fruit last year. This year’s flowers are fewer, and they look terrible. The fruit that does start forming is dropping off. What’s going on and what can I do ...

Question: Our mango tree has produced 3-4-inch-long fruits. Do I need to thin the crop to make them grow larger? Answer: Hopefully your mango is a good bearer, but unlike some other fruit trees, ...

Q: We really enjoyed your article about fruit trees. We have a 23-year-old mango tree which is about 15 feet tall and 15 feet wide, it definitely bears more fruit every other year. We have never ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Fruits. In Southern California, you can grow mango trees anywhere except where it freezes. I once saw an orchard of mango trees in Granada Hills, so anywhere ...

Question. One of the trunks of my ligustrum and some additional limbs are dead. I prune them off when noted and apply a fungicide. What else can I do? Answer. Some young but mainly older ligustrums ...