SYRACUSE, N.Y. >> Plums, peaches, nectarines and cherries all grow on just one of Sam Van Aken’s fruit trees. The trees blossom in a riot of red, white and pink each spring. The artist calls his ...

Tree 75 is a nice-looking fruit tree. But in spring, it becomes a thing of wonder when it blooms pink, crimson and white. And at harvest time, the tree grows more than 40 varieties of stone fruit, ...

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 ...

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A few weeks ago we came across a phenomenon along the river that was truly remarkable. Apparently at some point in time a leaning sycamore tree had grown over a cluster of small oak trees. It now ...

Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...

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 ...

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