Espalier fruit trees wall

An old-fashioned technique for training trees adds beauty and function to the garden

All it takes to create beautiful and productive espaliers is a good plan, some judicious pruning, and a little patience.

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Free-standing Espaliered Trees In the British American colonies, an espalier was a lattice-work or frame-work or wall support system, sometimes defining the boundary of a garden, upon which ornamental or bearing fruit trees were pruned & trained. Espaliered fruit trees were often used to create a focal point and as a form of art, as well as for the practical fruit that they produced. Espalier, a French word derived from the Italian spalliera, which means "something to rest the shoulder…

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

Espalier is often used to describe any trained tree, but the true form has branches at 90 degrees from the main stem, creating an attractive shape.

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