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 ...

Grafting is a horticultural technique used to vegetatively join the top of one plant to the base of another to the type of fruit we’re wanting but on a smaller tree. On grafted dwarf fruit trees, the ...

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 ...

There are not many Californians of my generation who do not remember growing avocado trees from seeds when we were kids. We simply impaled the big seeds around the middle with three evenly spaced ...

DEAR JESSICA: After superstorm Sandy, we transplanted a dwarf Japanese split-leaf red maple tree. The leaves on the tree are now green, and some of the leaves reverted to a full leaf. Is there ...

Fruit trees can yield abundance for your home, if propagated correctly. Instead of using seeds, consider these four methods for reproducing high yield plants.