From your donor tree, take a stem cutting—also called a scion. This is the portion that will grow into the main tree, with the desirable DNA traits you're looking to reproduce (as opposed to the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Loved the cherries from your grandma's orchard but can't get their seeds or root cuttings to establish? Perhaps, you've sacrificed your dreams ...

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 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 ...

Last year at this time, I wrote about the tasks of spring, which include getting outside and pruning fruit trees at the family farm. I reported then that we had one peach tree, two grape arbors, two ...

A dwarf fruit tree consists of at least two parts that are grafted together: The lower portion, the rootstock, has more effect on the tree's growth rate and ultimate height. The upper portion grows ...

When you are struggling for space in your garden, grafting your plants and trees is a fantastic solution to your problem. Join garden plants and seeds stockist, Dobies of Devon, as they explain this ...

With so much variation in fruit taste, size and quantity, many gardeners are eager to reproduce the perfect apple when they find it. Often the first question we receive is how to propagate an apple ...

Late winter is the perfect time to start getting your fruiting trees and shrubs ready for spring. Now is a good time for pruning and planting. And it is a great time to graft! Grafting is a method of ...

On Saturday, March 26 from 12:30-4:30 p.m., Pete Halupka from Harvest Roots Farms in Mentone will lead "Grafting Native Fruit Trees, Part I," part of the Certificate in Native Plant Studies series at ...