Plum trees offer fresh fruit in summer, but they can also take up way too much space in your garden. Try this type of plum ...

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 ...

Q: From roots, I planted a Santa Rosa plum tree given to me by a Japanese family. The first year, it had leaves and flowers while living in a pot. The following year, I planted it outside, but it did ...

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 this ...

DENNY SIMMONS / COURIER & PRESS Sam Van Aken performs clean-up duties after successfully planting a Shiro plum tree near New Harmony's Atheneum Friday morning. The artist's project — 'Tree of 40 Fruit ...

If you're interested in growing your own plum tree, there's a lot to learn, starting with the seeds. Learn how to take a plum ...

At the break of the 20 th century, Coney Island, a peninsular section of Brooklyn, New York, entered its golden age with side shows (‘freak shows’, then) to entertain regular folks and tourists with a ...

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 ...

On a lonely strip of land beneath a Highway 101 interchange in San Francisco, two women surreptitiously examine the results of their craft. Tara Hui and Miriam Goldberg smile with parental pride at ...