Grafting allows you to combine the two into one plant. You fuse a branch of a desired fruit tree—apple, pear, cherry or plum, for example—to a healthy, hardy rootstock. Grafting helps strengthen a ...

You can get several varieties of fruit on a single tree with grafting. Here’s what to know. While Luther Burbank experimented with plants at his home and garden in Santa Rosa, he did the bulk of ...

How to grow tree peonies in pots You might already know how to grow peonies, prized for their large springtime blooms. Yet if you want something more unusual, opt for the taller, woody tree peony.

Japanese tree peonies, which are all grafted onto herbaceous rootstock, must be planted with the graft union about 6in (15cm) into the soil in order to develop into a substantial, healthy-looking ...

Tree peonies on the market have almost always been grafted, usually onto herbaceous peony roots, but sometimes onto other tree peony roots. In either case, look for the graft union (a widening or ...

Build a better fruit tree for far less cost by grafting scion wood to rootstock.

But when large retailers sell tree peonies in bulk, they often are passing on what their wholesaler delivered without any so-called after-care: 1-year-old plants bound to a grafted herbaceous ...

Tree peonies, on the other hand, should be planted considerably deeper, because they’re grafted on herbaceous peony roots.

STEPHEN RYAN: One of the world's truly iconic flowers has to be the Tree Peony. Certainly the Chinese Emperors thought so. But to select one from the so many is almost impossible. I love them all ...