Don't stress if you have a tree that's not looking its best in the bark department. You can save a tree with damaged bark by first assessing the type of damage. Once you know the severity, you have a ...

Fall isn’t just about pumpkin spice and cozy sweaters—it’s secretly the perfect time to give your fruit trees a little extra love. While spring often gets all the glory for planting and grafting, the ...

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 ...

An old tree can be perpetuated by grafting one of its stems onto a young rootstock. Grafting is the joining together of two living plant parts so that the whole grows as one plant. The rootstock ...

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 ...

Grafting is a technique of joining two pieces of different plants together so that they form a single plant. For a successful graft, the plants must be genetically compatible, for example: same ...

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 ...