If you want to raise your favorite Gala apple variety, you can’t just plant a seed from a Gala apple and expect the resulting tree to produce fruit that will resemble a Gala. Instead, you must either ...

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 ...

An old tree can be perpetuated by grafting one of its stems onto a young rootstock. Grafting is the joining together of two living plant parts so that the whole grows as one plant. The rootstock ...

She’ll demonstrate how to cleft graft and if there’s time, a whip and tongue graft. Students will then cleft graft an apple tree to take home on rootstock with a selection of scions from the Chadwick ...

Visitors to my garden this time of year are often astonished to see me lopping the tops off some of my trees. No, I'm not the Henry VIII of horticulture, chopping the head off any tree that no longer ...

Visitors to my garden this time of year are often astonished to see me lopping the tops off some of my trees. No, I’m not the Henry VIII of horticulture, chopping the head off any tree that no longer ...