Grafting allows you to combine the two into one plant. You fuse a branch of a desired fruit tree—apple, pear, cherry or plum, for example—to a healthy, hardy rootstock. Grafting helps strengthen a ...

From citrus to peaches, almost all fruit trees are grafted, and so are pecans. Some ornamental trees and plants, including Japanese magnolias, Japanese maples and camellias, also are grafted.

Grafting can be used to propagate a wide variety of plants, including fruit trees, ornamental trees, and many types of vegetables.