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 ...

Did you know that almost all fruit trees are grafted? So are most nursery trees, for that matter. Grafting is a method of joining two different varieties of tree, to get the best qualities of both in ...

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 ...

In this video, Anne of All Trades explores various methods for growing fruit trees, covering the following topics: 0:00 Intro ...

Not long ago, while walking down Bethlehem Road in Jerusalem, I spotted a tree unlike any I had ever seen before. It had both pink and red flowers which, upon closer examination, belonged to the same ...

A gardener harvests a persimmon from a tree. - Emilija Manevska/Getty Images The American persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) tree is a great addition to an edible landscape. Its fall colors and ...

CORVALLIS, Mont. — In the early 1900's especially, the Bitter Root Valley grew several hundred varieties of fruit trees, most of them apple. But many of those antique fruits were lost or forgotten.

Q: I planted this fruit cocktail tree six years ago. It was supposed to have four fruits on it, and so far I have gotten only plums and peaches. The plums are great, but the peaches are small and fall ...