Agricultural grafting dates back nearly 3,000 years. By trial and error, people from ancient China to ancient Greece realized that joining a cut branch from one plant onto the stalk of another could ...

In South Louisiana, all of the citrus trees we grow are grafted. So, too, are many other fruit and nut trees, rose bushes and camellia plants. Grafting is a common horticulture technique. It's an ...

Jerry catches up with Merv Whitehouse, the cactus king, to look at his impressive collection of these beautiful, structural, resilient plants. “I just love how tough these plants are” says Merv of his ...

In many of the seed catalogs arriving soon in mailboxes, the headliners will be grafted vegetables, in which one or more different varieties grow from a single rootstock. Tomatoes seem to be the ...

Nature has created some pretty weird cacti for our enjoyment. Add a bit of human intervention and the strangeness doubles. Grafted cacti are two species that are fused to make one plant. This is done ...

Everyone interested in gardening has at some point or the other grown cacti. Their bizarre shape and unusual beauty draw people towards them and there’s no greater joy than watching them thrive under ...

A new technique for creating fruit and vegetables with the skin of one variety and the flesh of another could make crops more resistant to pests and droughts. A lot of the fruit and vegetables we eat ...

LA JOLLA--(January 19, 2016) Agricultural grafting dates back nearly 3,000 years. By trial and error, people from ancient China to ancient Greece realized that joining a cut branch from one plant onto ...