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, ...

WASHINGTON — As an artist, Sam Van Aken tends to work with some unusual media. While others are content to follow their vision using pencils, brushes and a canvas, he’s using weather balloons, planes ...

For Sam Van Aken, grafting — a horticultural practice of joining two or more plants together — is about more than just creating the best harvest. It's a way to preserve trees, particularly varieties ...

One artist created a tree that grows 40 different kinds of fruit. One artist has created a hybrid tree that can grow 40 different types of stone fruits to bring attention to fruit varieties that are ...

Beside a blue fence in the back of the East Fourth Street Community Garden in Kensington, a skinny, leafless little tree pokes optimistically up from the Brooklyn soil. At this point, the sapling ...

Add this to your truth-is-stranger-than-fiction file: an art professor in upstate New York is modifying plum trees so that each can bear not just one, but up to 40 varieties of stone fruit. In what ...