Apricots are juicy and tasty fruit that give you a little burst of sunshine on your tongue when you take that first bite. Fragrant fruit trees will also attract pollinators to your yard in the spring.

Charlyn Moltane, who gardens in Fountain Valley, emailed as follows: “My friend in Garden Grove has grown four apricot trees from the seeds of store-bought fruit. These trees are now five feet tall ...

Luther Burbank, the famed experimental horticulturalist, called it making old trees young again. But even for novices, fruit tree grafting is alluringly simple: a dormant branch or twig - a scion - is ...