Some fruit trees thrive when propagated from cuttings, while others don't do well with this method. Figs are among the best ...

It can be awkward to work out if an avocado is ripe or not until you buy it - and often they can be too hard to serve up, but ...

Some of the historic trees around Tucson’s Benedictine Monastery will live on despite plans to flip the iconic site into a luxury apartment complex. A private foundation has stepped up to help ...

On a steep, sun-soaked hillside northwest of Los Angeles, Tompros is replanting nearly 300 avocado trees with the belief that Americans’ hunger for the fruit — and his orchard — will continue to grow.

California avocado growers feared Mexican imports would harm their trade. Instead business is booming - On a hillside northwest of Los Angeles, Andreas Tompros is replanting hundreds of avocado trees ...

An odd quirk of the avocado, Persea americana to botanists ... He was sufficiently impressed to take cuttings from the tree and bring them back for grafting in an Altadena, Calif., ...

Metres away, a customer is cutting suckers from an avocado tree to graft to her seedlings. The grafting material, commonly known as the scion, must come from a high quality plant. A customer is first ...

He was an expert grafter, and they decided, well, let's see what happens with this tree. It's refusing the graft. It seems strong, and it turned out to be the house avocado that we are now eating in ...

Plants that commonly benefit from approach grafting include fruit trees like mango, tamarind, avocado, citrus, apple, and pear, as well as ornamental plants like roses, junipers, and bougainvillea; ...