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, ...

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 ...

An art professor from Syracuse University named Sam Van Aken has successfully grown a tree bearing 40 different kinds of fruit using a technique called grafting. Van Aken's one-of-a-kind hobby was ...

A dwarf fruit tree consists of at least two parts that are grafted together: The lower portion, the rootstock, has more effect on the tree's growth rate and ultimate height. The upper portion grows ...

Q: I have a small maple tree that lost some branches from the weight of snow. My neighbor also has a tree with cracked branches, but I now notice silver duct tape holding the broken branches in place ...