A few, mainly peach and nectarine varieties have previously come to the end of their tether and were replaced by young trees last winter. The longest-lived fruit trees are pear, apple, apricot, quince ...

Q. What is the difference between plumcots, pluots, and apriums? Which varieties are the best? Luther Burbank, the famous plant breeder, crossed an apricot (Prunus armeniaca) with a Japanese plum ...

NARA -- Some 12,000 plum trees in about 100 varieties are in full flower at the Tsukigase Bairin plum grove in the ancient Japanese capital Nara, covering the hills there in clouds of pink and white.

I should add that plums also taste very nice, fresh or cooked and we do have enough space to grow a fairly large range of Japanese and European varieties. All grow to perfection where we live in ...