Wildflowers succeed best when planted soon after the November rains start. If you're trying to "tame" a vacant lot by naturalizing it with wildflowers, this is the right time in Pacific Coast gardens. Watch them after the winter rains as they spring up almost overnight and grow into an infinite variety of charming forms and colors.

Before you can begin to plant a new fruit tree, you should choose which sort of tree you would like to grow and at which place. If you're going to buy the tree at a nursery, use caution on the way back to your home.

It's imperative that you know a technique to fret for fruit trees in a way that may guarantee their immediate success as well as future good health.

The trees are about 12 feet high, like single-stemmed cordons, from which grow out one- and two-year-old lateral shoots.

It is useful to have the tree planted in a lawn because then sheets or clothes can be laid under the tree on to which the fruit can drop when fully ripe.