When choosing a plum tree to grow in your garden, you'll want to know which are best for eating and which are better if you want to use them for cooking. We've chosen the best types of plum trees ...

By Ashlie Miller Those who walk our neighborhood will see a nook with a red plum tree, lenten roses, a small rose bush and butterfly bushes. It is a sweet habitat for small-winged creatures.

Varieties of Japanese plum fruits are yellow or light red, but never purple-blue. Japanese plums will produce better crops when cross-pollinated. In my garden, I have an Elephant Heart and a Santa ...

Residents of Agen, France, made the dried plum famous since the late 18th century by their thinning and harvesting techniques. First these trees are thinned before all the fruit has ripened.

Like other fruit trees, plums need full sun to produce well. Unlike apples, which you can buy on dwarf and mini-dwarf rootstocks, plums grow 12 to 15 feet high and spread 12 to 15 feet.