Growing your own citrus can be a rewarding and fulfilling endeavor, and few trees are as beloved as the orange tree. With their vibrant, juicy fruits and delightful fragrance, orange trees not only ...

This undated photo shows a grapefruit and its seeds in New Paltz, N.Y. Citrus seeds are very easy to sprout and grow into beautiful houseplants — and perhaps yield delectable fruits. (Lee Reich via AP ...

Ever think about growing your own orange tree? This time-lapse shows you how an orange tree was growing from a fresh seed to a young plant. We extracted the orange seed from a fresh store-bought fruit ...

Q. The orange tree in my backyard grew from a seed I planted about 10 years ago. The seed came from a sweet orange. For the last two years my tree has produced oranges, but they are sour and not very ...

‘What a waste,” I was thinking this morning as I spat out a seed from an orange. That seed could have grown into a whole orange tree. Growing an orange tree — or any citrus tree — from a seed is no ...

“Life is a process of planting seeds for the future. This is how Adam (from adama, the Hebrew word for earth) got his name. For the virtue of earth is found in the plants that grow out of it and in ...

You might think you have to wait until spring to sow seeds for summer flowers, but to get beautiful blooms early in the year, ...

Garden Variety is an occasional column about growing plants without grief. If seed packets are calling you—their covers adorned with impossibly pink watermelons and lush, billowing blooms—but you ...

In my opinion, they were probably spread by some ancestral, megafauna, squirrel-type creature, or another prone to squirreling away and caching the fruits. The only thing known to ferret out the seed ...

The other day I noticed she who has to endure the writing of these weekly columns, Jude, was germinating a handful of mandarin orange seeds. It is that season, after all, when cases of mandarins ...