Whether you are looking for more variety, an extended harvest, a conversation piece, or just a beautiful spring blooming specimen in your garden, multi-grafted fruit trees are a wonderful option.

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 ...

You can get several varieties of fruit on a single tree with grafting. Here’s what to know. While Luther Burbank experimented with plants at his home and garden in Santa Rosa, he did the bulk of this ...

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 ...

It sounds like something out of Dr. Seuss, but artist Sam Van Aken is developing a tree that blooms in pink, fuchsia, purple and red in the spring — and that is capable of bearing 40 different kinds ...

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, ...

In his quarter-acre garden, Drew Bohan has more varieties of fresh fruit than any supermarket — currently 70, and growing. That includes six kinds of peaches growing on one tree and eight different ...

Q: I planted this fruit cocktail tree six years ago. It was supposed to have four fruits on it, and so far I have gotten only plums and peaches. The plums are great, but the peaches are small and fall ...

Some cherry varieties will be ready for harvesting as early as May, so planting these trees in the fall can set you up for a ...

A single tree that bears 40 different fruits? It's not the product of magic, but years of careful grafting by artist Sam Van Aken. The Tree of 40 Fruit looks like any other tree. But in the spring, it ...

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