Espalier fruit trees

Create a productive garden with espalier fruit trees & flower shrubs: best varieties, training ideas, design patterns, how-to tutorials, etc! - A Piece of Rainbow, kitchen garden, edible gardening ideas, small space tips, grow your own food, backyard orchard, homestead, homesteading, landscaping, spring, summer

The clean lines of a beautifully espaliered fruit tree is a thing of beauty in winter. Learn how to do it from nursery owners Chris and Sarah Pike

Although you can buy ready-trained fruit trees trained as fan or espalier or fan trained trees it’s often a good idea and more cost-effective to buy bare-rooted plants in the autumn and train them...

The espalier technique involves training a fruit tree horizontally against a wall or fence, which is ideal for maximizing growing space in small areas.

How to Espalier Fruit Trees ... one of the easiest ways to include fruit trees in a small space garden and maximize your yield. Fruit grows on horizontal branches, leaves grow on verticals!

Gabe has the greener thumb of the two of us, so he is here today sharing some ideas to get your edible landscape going. Everything mentioned are things we have tried in our own yard here in Georgia. (pinnable graphic we made to bookmark post for later!) Having a new home with a relatively blank

Growing espalier fruit trees in the home garden is a wonderful way to grow edibles in small spaces and in decorative ways.

Espalier trees offer many conve­niences: The fruit can be harvested without ladders, pruning is easier, and trees fit in a confined space.

What is an Espalier? An espalier (pronounced "es-PAL-yer") is a tree that has been trained to grow in a flat plane against a wall,fence, or trellis, though the term has also been used to describe the technique of training a tree to grow this way. The technique was invented by the ancient Romans, and further…