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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

If you're planting a bare-root tree peony, plant the graft union 4 to 6 inches below the soil. I'll apply a low-nitrogen organic fertilizer after blooming.

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

Every third garden, it seems, has herbaceous peonies, but you could go from one end of any town to the other and never see a tree peony.

Few possess the beauty of a tree peony – the gloriously colored blooms that blossom – and create a stunning display – every early summer. It's easy to understand why so many gardeners can't ...