You can get several varieties of fruit on a single tree with grafting. Here’s what to know. While Luther Burbank experimented with plants at his home and garden in Santa Rosa, he did the bulk of ...

A tree capable of growing 40 varieties of stone fruits, such as peaches and plums, is located near the Rodin Sculpture Garden. Visitors are invited to pluck the fruits as they ripen in the coming ...

Grafting fruit trees - combining two or more different trees into one - is a fun undertaking for gardeners. Here's everything you need to know about it.

I also grafted a flowering plum to a ‘Laroda’ plum along with some nearby root sprouts so I now have two fully grown Laroda plums to enjoy and they produce a lot of fruit.

Having an indoor fruit tree may sound appealing, but not all fruit trees are suited for growing inside. Here are the ones to ...

The plum tree has good structure,” Van Aken said, and is among the most compatible to other stone fruit. It also offers especially sturdy support for all 40 fruit varieties, he added.

When stone fruits make their appearance in local farmers markets, there is a temptation to just eat the perfect fruit over the sink. After all, we wait a whole year for them to come back to us in the ...

A Tree of 40 Fruits was planted at Temple University on Friday by artist Sam Van Aken, who created it by grafting various heirloom tree varieties together. The tree eventually will bear 40 types ...

The Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' Association says some stone fruit crops may be a total loss this year after an extreme cold snap damaged trees in February.

Eggs are laid on the lower trunks and roots of stone fruit trees (peach, cherry, apricot, plum) and the larvae burrow into the bark as soon as they’ve hatched.

Sam Van Aken, an artist in Syracuse, N.Y., creates living conceptual pieces like “The Tree of 40 Fruit,” which has 40 stone fruit varieties grafted onto one plum, yielding a many-colored ...