While you can buy specialized grafting tools ... To illustrate, growing an apple tree on seedling rootstock or "standard" stocks will result in a tall tree unsuitable for most home gardens.

Contemporary artist Sam Van Aken merged art and science with his “Tree of 40 Fruits.” Many artists work with paint, clay, or ...

To speed up the process, many gardeners opt for grafting apple varieties onto a dwarfing rootstock, which keeps the trees shorter and fruiting sooner than gardeners growing on their own roots.

The most commonly planted fruit trees are apple trees but you ... This is called grafting, allowing you to benefit from the healthy rootstock of one tree and the tasty fruit of another.

For the past two or three years, some apple trees in the Northeast have been showing signs of decline: off-color foliage, ...