While familiarity with the term “grafting” is widespread among gardeners, a true understanding of what grafting is and why it is done is not so common. In a nutshell, grafting is a horticultural ...

Grafting is a technique of joining two pieces of different plants together so that they form a single plant. For a successful graft, the plants must be genetically compatible, for example: same ...

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 ...

Grafting is a time-honoured practice in horticultural crop production that involves uniting a scion, the above‐ground portion of a plant chosen for its desirable fruit or flower characteristics, with ...

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 ...

Last week, I wrote about the various ways that grafting has been used to create street trees and repair injuries on girdled trees. This week, I will explain how to perform cleft and whip grafting. As ...