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, ...

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 ...

There are not many Californians of my generation who do not remember growing avocado trees from seeds when we were kids. We simply impaled the big seeds around the middle with three evenly spaced ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...