Q: From roots, I planted a Santa Rosa plum tree given to me by a Japanese family. The first year, it had leaves and flowers while living in a pot. The following year, I planted it outside, but it did ...

Luther Burbank, the famed experimental horticulturalist, called it making old trees young again. But even for novices, fruit tree grafting is alluringly simple: a dormant branch or twig - a scion - is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve got a small space but an appetite for a fresh-picked fruit, there is no reason to despair. You don’t need a huge orchard to fill your fruit bowl. Not only can you grow multiple varieties of ...

Nectarine, peach, plum and apricot among fruits on tree Victoria’s Hussam Saraf says provides message of ‘peaceful coexistence’ Out the back of a suburban home on a leafy Shepparton street, a humble ...

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For most of the year it looks like any other fruit tree. But come spring, its blossom reveals a patchwork of colours. For the past six years, New York art professor Sam Van Aken has been grafting ...