Frigid Texas winters are beneficial for peach trees because they need a certain number of "chilling hours" to yield a good ...

Fort Bend County Master Gardeners Arti Bansal and Angela Chan spoke to about 75 people in Rosenberg about "Fruit Trees" that ...

We have been on a steady streak of cool weather up until last weekend and plants are deep into dormancy. Most non-annual plants in our region need some relief from the heat and active growing, so in ...

But the freezing produces a needed aspect: Chill hours. “When you’re looking for plants, specifically fruit trees, things like that that require chill hours, and it’s a good thing,” says Texas A&M ...