1. A horticultural technique in which a plant or branch is grafted onto another plant while still attached to its original root system, then severed once the graft has taken.
Usage: horticultural; also called approach grafting or inarch grafting

1. To graft (a plant or branch) onto another plant using the inarching method.
Usage: horticultural; transitive verb

Examples

• The gardener used inarching to propagate the rare fruit tree variety.
• Inarching allows the scion to remain nourished by its original roots until the graft is established.
• She decided to inarch the ornamental branch onto the rootstock in early spring.
• Inarching is particularly useful for plants that are difficult to graft by other methods.
• The nursery specializes in inarching techniques for citrus trees.
• Once the graft had taken, they severed the inarched branch from its original plant.