Apple trees are the most common fruit tree for espalier growing, and are available in pre-espaliered form for planting. Plant more than one variety for cross pollination, or plant self-pollinating ...

Espalier (ess-PAL-yay) is a horticultural art form of careful pruning and training of a woody plant as a means of adding a structural focal point to an area of a garden.

Espalier Garden at Patrick Ranch is shown in July 2020. (Laura Kling/Contributed) Espalier structure design: Because the Espalier Garden is a teaching tool, the Master Gardeners built sturdy, long ...

Espalier summons to mind the kind of highbrow, highfalutin style of gardening demanded by snooty royals. It sounds like the directive of a lisping dauphin, of an obsessive garden despot.

Espalier is a way to create a living border in a garden, or decorate a fence or wall. Hang fruit on those branches and you have a plant offering superb flavor as well as beauty.

Espalier design is an ancient pruning practice that fashions fruit trees, vines or flowering shrubs into artistic, two-dimensional forms. This lateral shaping makes it easier to harvest and mow ...

Espalier pruning technique trains trees to grow on walls, trellises . Updated: ; May. 22, 2013, 7:06 p.m. | Published: ; May. 22, 2013, 6:06 p.m.

Sometimes in the garden you just draw a blank. A blank wall, that is, or a blank fence, or a blank on ideas for how to screen the garbage cans or the neighbors’ deck. There’s an answer that ...

The ancient technique remains popular today—here's why.If you’re looking for a creative way to grow citrus and other fruit trees, then you may have come across the phrase “espalier." The ancient ...

With garden spaces becoming smaller around urban and suburban homes, I happy to say the espalier is enjoying a revival. The secret to this ancient technique is thorough planning.

There is a bit of ancient Rome and a taste of old Egypt at the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden at the Patrick Ranch. Espalier, the early horticultural art of pruning and training a tree or ...