Many people have a potted citrus plant or two that they keep indoors during the winter and move outdoors for the summer. It may be one of those dwarf trees that produce full-sized fruit. Or it could ...

Growing a lemon tree (or any citrus tree, for that matter) from seed is easy. However, because lemon trees are hybrids and most of them are grafted, their seeds produce seedlings that are not ...

Earlier this week, one of my neighbors told me that her Meyer lemon tree has had a bad infestation of scale insects for several years and that all of her attempts to eradicate the pests had failed. I ...

Garden staff are finding more scale insects and aphids than in past years. A major infestation of lecanium scale was recently found on a large planting of bald cypress at the Garden. The population of ...

When I spotted a scale insect on a leaf of my Thai lime tree recently, I sighed. It’s only December; sometimes they show up only in March. We must coexist indoors for another five months. I had been ...

If you want your citrus trees to produce an abundance of healthy fruit in winter, now is the time to care for them. Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and ...