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Category Archives: Fruit Trees

Plums, apples and the best kind of berries to grow

July 25, 2013 no comments
I have been privileged to harvest ‘Santa Rosa’ plums, grown in my own backyard, for more than 25 years. My first ‘Santa Rosa’ tree produced fruit for 20 years and then stopped...
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Welcome to The Smarter Gardener. I'm Joshua Siskin and I've been writing about plants and trees for the Los Angeles Daily News for over 20 years. If you have any questions or comments, please send them along. I have published more than 1,000 articles on plants and I am currently in the process of loading them onto this site. My goal is to make it possible for you to learn about any of the plants in your garden by doing a search of this site.

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