I interrupt today’s cocktail hour to talk about…cocktails. After naming, renaming, classifying plants, and pondering the meaning of life, our friends at Botanists ‘R Us, probably needed a good stiff ...

Q: I planted this fruit cocktail tree six years ago. It was supposed to have four fruits on it, and so far I have gotten only plums and peaches. The plums are great, but the peaches are small and fall ...

Imagine picking two or more different fruits from the same tree, kind of like having a fruit cocktail on one tree. I read a story about a British horticulturist who has spent 24 years working on ...