Sometimes, as a shrub sprouts in spring and unfurls its leaves, they seem to be the wrong leaves. What’s happening? Most likely, the problem is with a plant that has been grafted, says Joseph ...

Have you heard of plant grafting? With this age-old trick, you can get a tree to bear fruit in half the time, not to mention ...

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 ...

Spring has sprung and that’s good news for gardeners who’ve been eager to dig into the soil once again. If you’re one of the few who’s added fruit trees to your crop list, there’s one practice you may ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...