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 ...

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 ...

Apple tree grafting is surprisingly easy. Zach Galifianakis' This is a Gardening Show shows how it works and how to do it.

If you want to raise your favorite Gala apple variety, you can’t just plant a seed from a Gala apple and expect the resulting tree to produce fruit that will resemble a Gala. Instead, you must either ...

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 ...

Has it ever occurred to you that you could design your own fruit tree? Maybe not, but you could if you knew how to graft. Like some skills not widely practiced, grafting has acquired a mystique. The ...

George McAfee gets a kick out of nature. Hang around him, and so will you. McAfee, a master grafter, is a whiz at coaxing plants to ride piggyback. While several of his grafting wonders are in his own ...

The winter months might seem like a gardener’s idle time, but this period actually invites a range of creative actions. In recent columns, we’ve addressed several seasonal gardening opportunities: ...