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 ...

With dark blue, astringent skins, and dry, sour flesh, the ancient plums called damsons aren’t good for eating fresh. When submitted to a process akin to alchemy, however, their tartness and spiciness ...

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Back in the 1980s, when Consy Goonatilleke planted a seed of a damson fruit she ate, in a small corner of her home garden, little did she know that three decades after, she would be doing something ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If peaches are pointless because frost nips them in the bud and apples are often spoiled by coddling moth, try a tree that gives you fruit that’s just plum ...