Espalier Plants
Choose a plant that already has two strong bottom side shoots or laterals. Dig a hole directly under the trellis. Place the tree into the hole and position the laterals in the same direction as the wire. Back fill and water in. Now tie the ... [... more]
Gardening Talk |
Choosing the Planting Site
There are only a few situations where a horticulturist recommends pruning trees into forms other than their natural shape. One of these is known as espalier. Espalier is the art of training trees to branch in formal patterns usually along a wall, ... [... more]
University of Saskatchewan |
Maggie Ross's English Garden in Texas
A beautiful English garden, complete with espalier, growing in the clay soil of Texas - a minor miracle! Our subdivision is built on used-to-be prairie grasslands of a two-inch chocolate-brown-clay icing spread over a white cake of ... [... more]
Suite101 |
The Pruning Specialist: The Essential Guide to Caring ...
 Not at all useful: I purchased this book to learn about how to prune my fruit trees. While I have an upright peach, this book tells how to train a peach tree as an espalier. Even those directions were not as good as the ones in The Complete Book of [... more]
CDN$15.95
Amazon CA |
Smith and Hawken: Garden Structures
Full of ideas!: This is a gorgeously illustrated book with hundreds of ideas to inspire the gardener who wants to add architectural elements to their garden. Be aware, however, that this is mainly a collection of photographs and does not provide much in [... more]
CDN$39.95
Amazon CA |
The Pruning Book
From Amazon.com: It is unlikely that the basics of pruning have ever before been assembled so thoroughly or comprehensively than in Lee Reich's The Pruning Book. With clear prose and generous diagrams and photographs, he takes the angst out of pruning [... more]
CDN$27.95
Amazon CA |
