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 ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. >> Plums, peaches, nectarines and cherries all grow on just one of Sam Van Aken’s fruit trees. The trees blossom in a riot of red, white and pink each spring. The artist calls his ...

Fall isn’t just about pumpkin spice and cozy sweaters—it’s secretly the perfect time to give your fruit trees a little extra ...

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 ...

When you want to increase pollination and get loads more fruit off your tree, it’s good to have a few grafting techniques up your sleeve. Growing two types of plums on one tree is not only space savvy ...

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 ...

[Sam Van Aken] is working on a long-term project which literally will bear fruit. Forty different kinds, in fact. The Tree of 40 Fruit is a single tree, carefully grafted to produce 40 different ...

Q: From roots, I planted a Santa Rosa plum tree given to me by a Japanese family. The first year, it had leaves and flowers while living in a pot. The following year, I planted it outside, but it did ...

On a lonely strip of land beneath a Highway 101 interchange in San Francisco, two women surreptitiously examine the results of their craft. Tara Hui and Miriam Goldberg smile with parental pride at ...

Q. We would like to plant a row of purple leaf plum trees to screen our yard from our neighbors. The purple foliage and pink flowers are appealing; however, several people have mentioned a messy fruit ...