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 ...

An old tree can be perpetuated by grafting one of its stems onto a young rootstock. Learn how to graft trees that grow multiple fruits and the benefits of why graft trees are worth it. Grafting is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

With so much variation in fruit taste, size and quantity, many gardeners are eager to reproduce the perfect apple when they find it. Often the first question we receive is how to propagate an apple ...

The American persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) tree is a great addition to an edible landscape. Its fall colors and long-lasting fruit add tons of ornamental value. Because the fruit is best eaten when ...

(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) EINPresswire/ -- Pendragon Orchard & Vine has announced the launch of the Pomona Project, an ambitious living experiment in biodiversity, craft, and design. Named for the Roman ...

Trends in gardening are always interesting and in the increasingly competitive nursery industry every business is trying to outperform its competitor by coming up with the latest — hopefully for them, ...

A team of Pacific Northwest permaculturists launches the Pomona Project — a living experiment to graft dozens of fruit varieties onto a single tree. The Pomona Project is engineering a living Rosaceae ...