Standard-sized apple trees may grow to 35 or 40 feet in height. You might be able to keep a standard-sized tree under 20 feet tall through pruning, but the standard-sized apple tree is just too ...

So if you’re grafting apple trees, you’ll use apple rootstock. Many gardeners like to graft on rootstock that is on a young, established tree — for instance, an apple tree that has been ...

A rootstock might influence the eventual size of a plant, as attested to by my 10-year-old ‘Liberty’ apple tree, topping out at 8 feet high thanks to the M27 dwarfing rootstock onto which it ...

Imagine reaching up to a tree branch and plucking an apple that’s unusually tall and narrow — a variety called Kandil Sinap, native to the Black Sea region.In an adjacent arboreal row, 11 ...

First identified in Pennsylvania in 2013, rapid apple decline now plagues growers across North America, although it is more prevalent in apple trees on the East Coast. In North Carolina, up to 80 ...