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

POOR espalier. Somehow this no-nonsense, salt-of-the-earth gardening technique acquired a hopelessly frilly name. Espalier summons to mind the kind of highbrow, highfalutin style of gardening demanded ...

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 shrub ...

THE horticultural practice of espaliering has been used for centuries to grow fruit in small spaces. The trees were trained into two dimensions against a sunny wall to produce bountiful crops through ...

SALISBURY — When the Rowan County Master Gardeners began their “Pocket Garden” beautification project of the county property at 2727 Old Concord Road, one technique they wanted to incorporate was an ...