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 ...

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 ...

Among the pleasures of being a UC Master Gardener are the monthly seminars, where we are instructed by experts. Some of these authorities are homegrown; others are imported. One recent speaker was ...