Most apple trees planted nowadays are grafted, but you can grow an apple tree from seed if you so desire. The main question ...

Grafting is the best way for home gardeners to grow a cherry tree as well. In nature, cherry trees cross-pollinate with each other, so each seed contains a different set of DNA than its parent trees.

Arriving at the site where the Sycamore Gap Tree once stood, Mr Pickles spotted eight tiny new shoots - each no larger ... the saplings will be ready to plant within 12-24 months and plan to ...

a tiny shoot emerged from the seed, a fragment of which was able to be dated, revealing the seed's staggering age of 1,000 years. Remarkably, the tree has thrived and now stands nearly 3 metres tall.

Scientists have revived a mysterious, 1,000-year-old seed discovered in the Judean Desert — and the tree that has grown from it could belong to a lost lineage mentioned in the Bible, they say.

So to ensure it could live on in some form, they worked to sprout seeds and grow cuttings ... to determine if the shoots can succeed in forming a reinvigorated tree. Pickles noticed the ...

Botanists have grown a long-lost tree species from a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the ... up jumps this nice little shoot,” Sallon said. Protecting the shoot tip was a caplike feature ...

New shoots are expected to grow from the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree but it will never be the same again, experts have said. Sign up to our Scotsman Rural News - A weekly of the Hay's Way tour ...

To the researchers’ surprise, five weeks later up popped a tiny shoot, a fragment of which the scientists were able to date: The seed was a staggering 1,000 years old. Remarkably, the tree ...