Wild plums are commonly found growing along Missouri highways and backyards. A workshop on Friday will demonstrate the best methods for ensuring the fruit can be harvested and eaten. Lincoln ...

Despite the destruction of the original plum orchard by European settlers, the spiritual power of the gathering space remains ...

Nebraska trees are displaying some pretty colors this spring, and that includes the wild plum thickets you might see on rural roadsides. The wild plum is a shrub, and is known to grow in thickets. The ...

I’m sure most of you have, at one time or another, eaten a plum. You probably obtained it from a store, from a cultivated plum tree in your yard or from some other person who had a tree. It may come ...

Trees continue to get our attention as we work our way through this greening month of May. After standing bare for seven months of cold temperatures, they burst forth with new leaves during these warm ...

Unseasonably warm weather during the past few weeks has pushed the button on some of our early bloomers. Redbud and wild plum trees dot many neighborhoods with pink and white blossoms, respectively.

Unlike all the fancy and popular Japanese plums and European prunes, wild plum, Prunus americana, is almost never planted intentionally. It is a common understock for the more desirable types, and ...