Q: I planted three yellow Lady Banks roses on my south wall when I moved here 10 years ago. Two years ago, my neighbor planted a white Lady Banks rose nearby. This year I noticed white roses growing ...

The process can be complex, but the results are incredibly satisfying—and delicious.

With so much variation in fruit taste, size and quantity, many gardeners are eager to reproduce the perfect apple when they find it. Often the first question is how to propagate an apple tree from ...

When you want to increase pollination and get loads more fruit off your tree, it’s good to have a few grafting techniques up your sleeve. Growing two types of plums on one tree is not only space savvy ...

A healthy plant needs a healthy root system, and in some cases, it's better if that root system is from a different plant. These are called rootstocks, and today we go below the surface and find out ...

Mat Conant drove around his orchard in his four-wheeler on a sunny morning last week, talking about walnut trees that he had cloned to make a more vigorous rootstock. He explained that, in order to ...

As drought and water uncertainty put increasing pressure on orchard systems, researchers at the USDA Agricultural Research ...

Nursery technician Elizabeth Coss inspects one of five new pest-resistant grape rootstocks at Foundation Plant Services. Five new grape rootstocks that are resistant to nematodes and phylloxera -- two ...