If you’ve recently purchased a fruit or nut tree — or if you already have one in your home landscape — take a close look at the trunk near the soil surface. You might see a faint scar where two ...

Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...

ANGELINA COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - One of the gardening skills that tend to be forgotten in this day and time is grafting and budding. Grafting and budding are horticultural techniques used to join parts ...

While many people have focused on the health benefits of gardening in recent years, another rewarding aspect of working with plants hasn't received quite as much attention. Gardening promotes ...

While Luther Burbank experimented with plants at his home and garden in Santa Rosa, he did the bulk of this work at Gold Ridge, his 11-acre property in Sebastopol. There he grew the famous tree that ...

Grafting is a great way to grow more than one variety of fruit on the same tree. (You can produce a "fruit cocktail" tree of, say, lemons, oranges and limes but you need the fruits to be compatible.

Spring has sprung and that’s good news for gardeners who’ve been eager to dig into the soil once again. If you’re one of the few who’s added fruit trees to your crop list, there’s one practice you may ...

Has it ever occurred to you that you could design your own fruit tree? Maybe not, but you could if you knew how to graft. Like some skills not widely practiced, grafting has acquired a mystique. The ...

One of the gardening skills that tends to be forgotten in this day and time is grafting and budding. Grafting and budding are horticultural techniques used to join parts from two or more plants so ...