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 ...

Fruit trees have become very expensive to buy. Most are well north of $20 each. Some are $25 or more, but you can build your own for about $5 each. Building your own fruit trees is easy. Scion wood, ...

In his quarter-acre garden, Drew Bohan has more varieties of fresh fruit than any supermarket — currently 70, and growing. That includes six kinds of peaches growing on one tree and eight different ...

GRAFTING is the method of getting a branch or bud from a mature tree and joining it with the stem of a young plant, belonging to the same or closely related plant species. GRAFTING is the method of ...

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 ...

Not long ago, while walking down Bethlehem Road in Jerusalem, I spotted a tree unlike any I had ever seen before. It had both pink and red flowers which, upon closer examination, belonged to the same ...