I interrupt today’s cocktail hour to talk about…cocktails. After naming, renaming, classifying plants, and pondering the meaning of life, our friends at Botanists ‘R Us, probably needed a good stiff ...

Q: I planted this fruit cocktail tree six years ago. It was supposed to have four fruits on it, and so far I have gotten only plums and peaches. The plums are great, but the peaches are small and fall ...

FRESNO, Calif. — You can have a cocktail of mixed drinks and a cocktail of diced fruit. How about a cocktail of fruit varieties — or fruit types — on one tree? If you never thought about it, well, ...

Imagine picking two or more different fruits from the same tree, kind of like having a fruit cocktail on one tree. I read a story about a British horticulturist who has spent 24 years working on ...

Q: I have an advertisement for a fruit cocktail tree that has grafts of peaches, nectarines, apricots and plums, all on one tree. It sounds too good to be true. Is it? A: Such an evocative term, ...

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 this ...