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 ...

ANGELINA COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - One of the gardening skills that tend to be forgotten in this day and time is grafting and budding. Grafting and budding are horticultural techniques used to join parts ...

Make sure that the cambium of the scions is lined up and in contact with that of the stump. Use this step-by-step guide to cleft grafting fruit trees and start a one-tree apple orchard. How many folks ...

Q: Last winter, I grafted seven groups of scions: pear, apricot and persimmons, onto my quince tree in North Oakland. Two pear varieties, a French butter pear and a Bartlett, succeeded. The remaining ...

Volunteers take scions, or cuttings, from the Botner apple collection in Southern Oregon and graft them to root stock at Almaty Farm in Molalla, Ore. Each new tree bears a tag with its name and ...

Twelve-year-old Milo Weinberg remembers the apple tree at Cambridge’s Tobin Montessori School like an old friend. He played around its trunk for years. He learned to ride his bike around it. And when ...