We all like variety, especially in fruit. Grow an assortment of apples by grafting. With a little diligence, even folks with smaller yards can grow their own fruit trees. And if you can grow one type ...

Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University, managed to graft different stone fruit plants such as peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines and cherries together to create a single tree ...

Have you heard of plant grafting? With this age-old trick, you can get a tree to bear fruit in half the time, not to mention ...

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 horticultural ...

For Sam Van Aken, grafting — a horticultural practice of joining two or more plants together — is about more than just creating the best harvest. It's a way to preserve trees, particularly varieties ...

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: ...

Did you know that almost all fruit trees are grafted? So are most nursery trees, for that matter. Grafting is a method of joining two different varieties of tree, to get the best qualities of both in ...

I interrupt today’s cocktail hour to talk about…cocktails. After naming, renaming, classifying plants, and pondering the meaning of life, our friends at Botanists ‘R Us, probably needed a good stiff ...

A love of farming that began with a teenager’s two-acre cucumber field has grown into one of the country's most unique ...

EARLY SPRING is the ideal time to plant a fruit tree. All fruiting trees that grow in the Pacific Northwest go dormant during the winter months. These trees most easily settle into a new home if they ...

In the heart of Philadelphia, Temple University has become home to a unique living artwork: the Tree of 40 Fruits. Created by Sam Van Aken, a contemporary artist known for blending horticulture with ...