Gardening is an activity that really helps us to relieve stress, but it is not free of challenges. I am embarrassed to confess that I have had two unfortunate mishaps with tree roses. More accurately, ...

Grafting is a horticultural technique used to vegetatively join the top of one plant to the base of another to the type of fruit we’re wanting but on a smaller tree. On grafted dwarf fruit trees, the ...

Garden tip Potted Easter lilies are reasonably hardy around here and can be planted in the garden after the weather settles. Cut the spent flowers off, but keep the leaves growing indoors until May.

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 ...

Sometimes, as a shrub sprouts in spring and unfurls its leaves, they seem to be the wrong leaves. What’s happening? Most likely, the problem is with a plant that has been grafted, says Joseph ...

I have learned so much from my rose garden through the years. I have learned about roses, the insects in my garden and the value of companion planting. Interestingly, rose gardens and life teach us ...

Suppose you want, say, three or four gooseberry bushes. You could always pop down to the garden centre and buy them, but that would be very much a last resort. Much better to find a gooseberry-owning ...