understock

It is also used as an understock for Pistacia vera.

Cut out the understock canes below ground level so that the grafted hybrid rose can grow.

"Whack them off as soon as you see them, or the tough native understock will take over your hybrid plant."

The grafting is done on the Acer palmatum understock, which is usually grown from seedlings.

It is usually grafted onto a tall understock of Ulmus glabra to effectively display its weeping habit.

Caution: If the lilac is grafted to privet understock, all will be lost with this pruning; the undertstock will grow.

The twig of one plant, called the scion, is attached, or grafted, onto the root or stem of another plant, called the stock or understock.

Second question: Most all modern roses are grafted on an understock rose which is a vigorous grower; the understock is what is producing the flowers.

"I know that sooner or later they'll come back wanting to buy old roses that have been budded onto understock and won't grow all over the garden like a raspberry plant," she said.

"Color can be very important," said Mr. Iseli, who uses Norway spruce as the understock trunk for a standard with a head of silvery-blue globosa spruce (Picea pungens Globosa).

Grafting methods make it possible, for example, for a three-foot-tall understock trunk of the sturdy, upright juniper Skyrocket to be capped with a neat blue head of Blue Star, a dwarf juniper cultivar that naturally maintains its moundlike form.

At Monrovia, a juniper understock stem might sport a fluffy-looking mop produced by the silvery gray-green Emerald Spreader, or a graceful green waterfall of J. procumbens Nana, or a blue-green cascade of Tolleson's Blue Weeping.

The seeds for these trees were taken in December 1910 from the famous collection on the bank of the Arakawa River in Adachi Ward, a suburb of Tokyo, and grafted on specially selected understock produced in Itami City in Hyōgo Prefecture.