arol Gorenberg writes: I planted a white Genoa fig tree nine years ago and have kept it compact and nicely shaped to form the focal point of my small, sunny West Santa Rosa yard. It is beautiful and ...

Fruit trees have become very expensive to buy. Most are well north of $20 each. Some are $25 or more, but you can build your own for about $5 each. Building your own fruit trees is easy. Scion wood, ...

Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...

While many people have focused on the health benefits of gardening in recent years, another rewarding aspect of working with plants hasn't received quite as much attention. Gardening promotes ...

In this video, Anne of All Trades explores various methods for growing fruit trees, covering the following topics: 0:00 Intro ...

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 two ...

Pat Morgan of Westlake Village wrote to the SoCal Garden Clinic to ask: My fig tree was started from a cutting three years ago and was recently transplanted to our atrium. It has been in a container ...

Spring has sprung and that’s good news for gardeners who’ve been eager to dig into the soil once again. If you’re one of the few who’s added fruit trees to your crop list, there’s one practice you may ...

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 ...

While Luther Burbank experimented with plants at his home and garden in Santa Rosa, he did the bulk of this work at Gold Ridge, his 11-acre property in Sebastopol. There he grew the famous tree that ...

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