Plums can be surprising. Will the one you sink your teeth into be tart or sweet? There are no guarantees, but there are a few hints. Clockwise from top left: Purple plums, cherry plums, red plums, ...

The appearance of prune plums and Black Mission figs in late summer is a gentle but firm reminder that our current bounty of delicate fruits will soon give way to fall's crisper, heartier cousins. To ...

Note: When Michelle Huneven started thinking about recipes to serve at a fund-raising dinner that she was to cook for her church, a friend suggested this traditional French country dish. It can be ...

If you’re like me, then you have many childhood summer memories — towering cones of swirled soft-serve ice cream, ice-cold Creamsicles and pucker-inducing fresh Italian prune plums. OK, maybe not the ...

There's no one month in which all fruit trees should be pruned since each variety has different needs, and there are different reasons for pruning, whether that's trimming off leafy growth to ...

Dear Helen: We have four Italian prune plum trees in our garden, already mature when we bought the house 22 years ago. The plums are delicious although racoons knock most of them down before they can ...

Plum growers have won permission from the government to start calling prunes "dried plums," and packages with the new name are showing up in stores. Prune juice will still be prune juice, however.