Besides providing their tasty, versatile fruit, native plum trees are a keystone species, which means they provide critical resources for wildlife including food, shelter and breeding sites.

Of course, those thorns could also be a benefit if you're growing a living fence of American plum trees to improve and upgrade your home security. Read more: The 11 Most Difficult Vegetables To ...

Plant a pair of plum trees, and you’ll have fruit for sauces, wine, jams and jellies as well as treats on a summer day. Plums come in three broad groups: American, Japanese and European.

The trees included Chinese chestnut, chestnut oak, sawtooth oak, American plum, hazelnut, persimmon and pecan. Erica Atchison, who works as a soil conservation technician at the Hattiesburg field ...