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 ...

Last week, I wrote about the various ways that grafting has been used to create street trees and repair injuries on girdled trees. This week, I will explain how to perform cleft and whip grafting. As ...

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If you’ve recently purchased a fruit or nut tree — or if you already have one in your home landscape — take a close look at the trunk near the soil surface. You might see a faint scar where two ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Grafting -- the joining of two plants to make a single new one -- is a ...

If you have a valuable tree with serious bark damage and are considering removing it, there is a way the tree might be saved — and this is the time of year to do it. We have an “Arkansas Black” apple ...

On what was once their family’s farm, Walter “Beau” Clark IV and his stepson, Bob Thompson, are the sole full-time employees of Walter E. Clark & Son Inc., a company that has sold tree wound dressing, ...

It’s astonishing enough to learn that Calgary has everything it takes to be transformed into a massive, urban fruit orchard. But the fact that such a thing could happen in well under a decade? Now ...