The legacy of the Tiger of Mysore lives on not only in monuments and manuscripts, it can also be sensed in the living presence of two ancient mango trees in the Lalbagh botanical gardens, believed to ...
India's fruit trees are under threat, but a community of gardeners is using an old trick to save them – and even bring some back from the dead. It can take an entire village to grow a new-age garden.
Kalimullah Khan, the 'Mango Man of India', has cultivated a remarkable 125-year-old tree bearing over 350 distinct mango varieties. This Padma Shri awardee, who left school early, mastered grafting to ...
Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...