With abundant harvests of juicy fruit, verdant year-round foliage, and vivid springtime blooms, growing citrus trees is gratifying work. But these trees are finicky about their environmental ...
Every December in Southern California, the days get shorter yet brighter — and it’s not Christmas lights or the shifting sun that make the region shine. I’m talking about citrus. Trees heavy with ...
If you're looking to add a bit of tasty citrus to your indoor garden, consider an orange tree. Here's how to properly care ...
Orange trees are low-maintenance fruit trees and pruning is not overly complicated but is important to maintain the health ...
Matt Mattia used both hands to flip through the branch at his eye level, studying each side of every leaf as sunlight filtered from above. “Just healthy leaves,” he said, noting the dark green color.
Citrus growers in Florida are facing some of the toughest challenges yet with their crops. Last year, the citrus industry’s crop was one of the smallest since World War II, due to a bacterial disease ...
ARS scientists made a "sweet" discovery that may be important to solving a major problem within the citrus industry. Huanglongbing (HLB), also known as citrus greening disease, poses a serious threat ...
LAKE WALES — As Trevor Murphy pulls up to his dad’s 20-acre grove in one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States, he points to the cookie-cutter, one-story homes encroaching on the orange ...
On either side of a sandy dirt road, Valencia orange trees tower overhead with flecks of orange and yellow peeking through leafy green branches. Morgan McKenna Porter, 32, has spent her whole life in ...
VALLEY CENTERVALLEY CENTER — The California Department of Food and Agriculture on Thursday declared a new citrus quarantine in Valley Center after detecting the citrus tree disease known as ...
The California Department of Food and Agriculture Thursday declared a new citrus quarantine in Valley Center after detecting the citrus tree disease known as Huanglongbing — or citrus greening — in ...
A genetically engineered tree holds promise to possibly save Florida's citrus industry from an insect that causes "greening disease." The Asian citrus psyllid has devastated the industry. Some Florida ...