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 ...

Build a better fruit tree for far less cost by grafting scion wood to rootstock.

You can get several varieties of fruit on a single tree with grafting. Here’s what to know. While Luther Burbank experimented with plants at his home and garden in Santa Rosa, he did the bulk of ...

Where multi-graft Prunus trees are concerned, the most world-famous specimens are the work of Sam Van Aken, an art professor at Syracuse University.

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.

If grafting is something you’d like to learn more about or you just want to get some uncommon fruit tree varieties, mark your calendar for Thursday, March 21.

GARDEN CLIPPINGS: Most nursery trees made from grafting If you plant a seed fallen from a Japanese red maple, it woon't grow into another Japanese red maple.

A: You will want to take (scion) wood from your tree to graft onto rootstock (another citrus) at your new home. See this grafting information online.