Fruit trees have become very expensive to buy. Most are well north of $20 each. Some are $25 or more, but you can build your own for about $5 each. Building your own fruit trees is easy. Scion wood, ...

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 ...

Propagating fruit trees lets you grow more delicious fruit at home, but each method needs the right timing and care. Different trees and techniques—like cuttings, grafting, budding, and air ...

GRAFTING is the method of getting a branch or bud from a mature tree and joining it with the stem of a young plant, belonging to the same or closely related plant species. GRAFTING is the method of ...

While the term “grafting” is widely used among gardeners, a true understanding of grafting and why it is done is not so common. In a nutshell, grafting is a horticultural technique that joins parts ...

In South Louisiana, all of the citrus trees we grow are grafted. So, too, are many other fruit and nut trees, rose bushes and camellia plants. Grafting is a common horticulture technique. It's an ...

Use clean pruners to make a cut at a 45-degree angle near the end of the branch. Trim the tip of the branch straight across just above some leaf buds. Refrigerate any cuttings you won’t be able to pot ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Plums, peaches, nectarines and cherries all grow on just one of Sam Van Aken’s fruit trees. The trees blossom in a riot of red, white and pink each spring. The artist calls his ...

Van Aken recently grafted these stone fruit onto his "Tree of 40 Fruit." It sounds like something out of Dr. Seuss, but artist Sam Van Aken is developing a tree that blooms in pink, fuchsia, purple ...

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 ...