Last year at this time, I wrote about the tasks of spring, which include getting outside and pruning fruit trees at the family farm. I reported then that we had one peach tree, two grape arbors, two ...

ANGELINA COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - One of the gardening skills that tend to be forgotten in this day and time is grafting and budding. Grafting and budding are horticultural techniques used to join parts ...

If you’re in the market for an apple or pear tree this spring, consider buying an espaliered tree. Espalier is a form of pruning where a tree is trained to grow flat, usually against a wall or fence.

Volunteers take scions, or cuttings, from the Botner apple collection in Southern Oregon and graft them to root stock at Almaty Farm in Molalla, Ore. Each new tree bears a tag with its name and ...

Twelve-year-old Milo Weinberg remembers the apple tree at Cambridge’s Tobin Montessori School like an old friend. He played around its trunk for years. He learned to ride his bike around it. And when ...