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 ...

DEAR JESSICA: After superstorm Sandy, we transplanted a dwarf Japanese split-leaf red maple tree. The leaves on the tree are now green, and some of the leaves reverted to a full leaf. Is there ...

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 ...