While familiarity with the term “grafting” is widespread among gardeners, a true understanding of what grafting is and why it is done is not so common. In a nutshell, grafting is a ...

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 ...

Bark grafting is a type of grafting technique used to join a scion (the top portion of a plant that will produce the desired fruit or flowers) to a rootstock (the bottom portion of a plant that ...