Few things are better than reading a book in the backyard in the dappled sunlight of spring. There's a nut tree that grows to an impressive 100 feet tall and 70 feet wide at maturity, making it a ...

The northern pecan tree, Carya illinoinensis, is native to Maryland. While pecans are mostly thought of as a southern tree, they belong to the hardy hickory family, and can thrive and easily survive ...

I often get questions about pecans, especially during the holidays with all the holiday baking. Many want to plant the trees as nursery and garden centers receive their annual shipment of bare-rooted ...

You don’t have to look hard in Eastern North Carolina to find a pecan tree. Like grapevines, pecans seem to be a staple in the backyard of old homes. Their bounty of nuts in the fall along with their ...

We recently bought some acreage in west Jacksonville that has a number of rundown pecan trees. What steps should we take to rejuvenate them? In my research, I found it interesting that there is much ...

This garden column is primarily about growing vegetables. On occasion, however, we enjoy covering other homegrown foods such as fruits and nuts. We don’t see a lot of pecan trees in the mountainous ...

It's National Pecan Pie Day! While we've seen some interesting variations on this comfort food, it's generally made of pecan nuts mixed with a filling of eggs and sugar. You can add white or brown ...

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BARTONVILLE — A couple of sightseers viewed and took photos of the massive 150-year-old pecan tree filled with more than 60,000 LED Christmas lights on Thursday evening in Bartonville in southern ...