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 ...

While winter may not seem like the time to garden, it's the best time to graft fresh fruit trees in your yard. Here's what ...

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 ...

Grafted trees often fail due to the incompatibility between the rootstock and scion (the grafted on piece of twig or shoot). Even when fruit trees belong to the same genus, two different species may ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you plant a seed fallen from a Japanese red maple, it woon't grow into another Japanese red maple. If you plant a seed fallen from a Japanese red maple, it woon’t grow into another Japanese red ...