While familiarity with the term “grafting” is widespread among gardeners, a true understanding of what grafting is and why it is done is not so common. In a nutshell, grafting is a horticultural ...

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 ...

There are not many Californians of my generation who do not remember growing avocado trees from seeds when we were kids. We simply impaled the big seeds around the middle with three evenly spaced ...

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 ...

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 ...

An old tree can be perpetuated by grafting one of its stems onto a young rootstock. Learn how to graft trees that grow multiple fruits and the benefits of why graft trees are worth it. Grafting is the ...

Brazoria County Master Gardeners will present a citrus tree grafting seminar and workshop on Saturday September 14 from 9 a.m. to noon at the BEES, Brazoria County Environmental Education Station, 585 ...

The widespread multiple-night hard freeze that occurred in North Florida near the end of December 2022 resulted in numerous citrus trees becoming severely damaged. The above-ground portion of many of ...