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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

An old tree can be perpetuated by grafting one of its stems onto a young rootstock. Grafting is the joining together of two living plant parts so that the whole grows as one plant. The rootstock ...

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 ...

Many people who have space in their compounds somehow never imagine they can grow their very own fruits trees for home consumption in that space. Yet growing grafted fruit trees in your backyard can ...