Pecan trees can be a nice addition to your landscape. Just be sure you have the proper space and select a variety — or varieties — that will work for your needs.

ABOVE: A tree shaker is used to harvest pecans at Knight Creek Pecan Farms in 2021. Pecan trees can be grouped into basically two categories: native and improved varieties.

Fickle as they are, wild pecan trees served their early patrons well. Native Americans in Texas, including the Caddo, Comanche, and Kickapoo, ate and traded loads of pecans—with about 690 ...

Pecan trees are the only native major tree nut in the U.S. and, ... fall is a great time of year for planting trees; some of the recommended varieties include Pawnee, Hopi, ...

One of the challenges associated with pecans is some of these trees don’t shed their male pollen at the same time the female flowers are ready for fertilization. Master Gardener: Tips for ...

He was a pecan fanatic.Thomas P. Littlepage spent 15 years hunting across nine states for the best varieties of tree nuts in the early 20th century, then brought them back to his Bowie orchard ...

According to the Texas A&M Forest Service’s website, it’s “the source of more important varieties than any other pecan tree in the world … discovered by an Englishman named E.E. Risien who ...

Pecan trees need two varieties for cross pollination. To make things even more complicated, they need specific varieties that are either giving or receiving pollen when needed.

It’s the holiday season, and pecan growers just can’t seem to get enough of their nuts. Whether in pecan pie, butter pecan cake, pecan toffee, pecan bars, pralines, chocolate chip pecan ...