Recently, I was visiting my sister at Wrightsville Beach and we were invited to a tomato tasting party. Because I love tomatoes, I was looking forward to attending this summer party. When we arrived, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grafting is an essential technique in many parts of the agricultural industry; by physically binding certain plants together, you get dramatic improvements, including the speed to fruiting, hardiness ...

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 ...

Scientists have found a novel way to combine two species of grass-like plant including banana, rice and wheat, using embryonic tissue from their seeds. The technique allows beneficial characteristics, ...

Please join the San Francisco Rose Society on Sunday, March 8 at 1 pm in the Recreation Room of the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park for a talk on how to graft "scion" roses onto root stock. Our ...

For centuries, farmers have been genetically modifying their plants without even knowing it. That’s the message from German scientists who found that grafting, a common technique used to fuse parts of ...

ALAPPUZHA: Siji S was travelling on the NH-66, which was undergoing reconstruction at the time, when he spotted an uprooted bougainvillea on the roadside at Pathirapally near Alappuzha. He brought it ...

Blight is more of a problem for gardeners than ever before, but grafting your plants will make them much stronger and disease-resistant. With the days getting longer, it's officially time to start ...