Preserving strips of native vegetation beside avocado orchards gives insects a buffet of wild pollen when blossoms are scarce, doubling their plant menu and boosting their resilience. Using ...

Avocado trees (Persea americana) exhibit a specialised flowering system in which individual flowers open first in a female phase before closing and reopening in a male phase. This protogynous ...

Although it’s harvest time for numerous varieties of avocados, many home gardeners have trees that bear few if any fruit. There are reasons for these failures, but one explanation often cited by ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at gnogardening@agcenter.lsu.edu. How does one grow avocado trees in Orleans Parish? If an avocado tree ...