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 ...

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 ...

Answer: The lime would not do too well because it’s very susceptible to cold. You can try budding or cleft-grafting the orange or grapefruit. Budding is usually more successful. I’d do either during ...

Last week I wrote about the various ways that grafting has been used to create street trees and repair injuries on girdled trees. If the snow from yet another March blizzard does not melt quickly, ...

Visitors to my garden this time of year are often astonished to see me lopping the tops off some of my trees. No, I’m not the Henry VIII of horticulture, chopping the head off any tree that no longer ...