Almond trees might not be your first thought when looking for plants to grow in containers, but these spring-blooming trees ...

It looks best in a naturalized woodland setting, beneath shrubs and trees. They can easily become overrun by competing perennials, so plant them near other well-behaved clumping plants such as ...

Individual trees are consistently "male-first" or "female-first" in flowering, something noted by Charles Darwin in 1877. In the 1980s, a UC Davis graduate student, Scott Gleeson, noted that this ...