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 ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. If you have big ideas for a garden but only a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated photo shows a red currant espalier in New Paltz, N.Y. Red currant plants are especially easy to train and prune as ...

JANE EDMANSON: This is an espalier. 'What's that' you might well ask? It's where you espalier a tree or a shrub so that it flattens out. You're trying to get more growth to grow upwards and across and ...

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. These are living sculptures ...

The first e-mail came with an appeal for espalier information. I could feel the Portland gardener's enthusiasm and concern in every line. There is a lot to consider when designing and maintaining an ...

If you’d love to grow fruit trees but think you don’t have the space, think again. You don’t need an orchard or even a large backyard to enjoy garden-picked fruit. Instead, use a method perfected by ...

Espalier — the practice of training trees to grow horizontally along supports — is fun, creative and practical, says Contra Costa Master Gardener Helen Erickson. In fruit trees, the horizontal limbs ...

There is a bit of ancient Rome and a taste of old Egypt at the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden at the Patrick Ranch. Butte County MGs are practicing espaliering, the early horticultural art of ...

If you'd love to grow fruit trees but think you don’t have the space, think again. You don’t need an orchard or even a large backyard to enjoy garden-picked fruit. Enjoy unlimited reading on ...