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 ...

Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...

While many people have focused on the health benefits of gardening in recent years, another rewarding aspect of working with plants hasn't received quite as much attention. Gardening promotes ...

Volunteer Marvin Daniels shows instructional assistant Angela Ysip the art of grafting an apple tree. (Courtesy photo) The ...

If you love fruit but have never planted an orchard of your own due to space constraints, you might want to consider grafted fruit trees. The Three Rivers Fruit Growers Club works to graft trees and ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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