After last week’s column on transplanting 8-year-old plum trees was published, City of Las Cruces Community Forester Jimmy Zabriskie contacted me about another important consideration: sunscald ...

Most plum trees are trained into an open-centered shape, with several main limbs instead of just one trunk. This shape allows more light to reach the branches and promotes air circulation ...

Photo by Jim Hagenhoff. The oozing sap from this plum tree trunk is the classic symptom of damage from the lesser peach tree borer. It is coming out of the holes created by the borers.

I’m concerned with my purple leaf plum tree. Originally, I was only concerned with the dark crusty limbs, and then I noticed some stuff like dark coffee grounds at the trunk.

Standard plum trees can reach 30 feet tall and 25 feet wide, but for the home garden, ... being careful to keep the mulch itself a slight distance away from the trunk of the tree.

Sherry Keef sent me an interesting e-mail that contains a lesson for all of us. She writes, “We have a Thundercloud plum tree in our back yard that we planted five years ago. It continues to … ...

Can you help me with two damson plum trees? I purchased these trees bare-root and planted them probably five years ago. They have flourished and now stand 8 to 10 feet tall. I have had them profess… ...

If your plum tree is bleeding sap, it may be affected by canker, or by other forms of fungal or bacterial diseases, like pseudomonas. Several types of borers, like peach tree borers, can infect ...

Last year, my plum tree didn’t have any fruit at all. This spring, ... Start on branch ends that are farther from the trunk and leave only a few near the base of the branches.