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 ...

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 ...

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 this ...

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 ...

Last year at this time, I wrote about the tasks of spring, which include getting outside and pruning fruit trees at the family farm. I reported then that we had one peach tree, two grape arbors, two ...

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 ...

At the break of the 20 th century, Coney Island, a peninsular section of Brooklyn, New York, entered its golden age with side shows (‘freak shows’, then) to entertain regular folks and tourists with a ...